We are all concerned about the world around us. Clean air, clean water, and making sure the planet is a great place to live for us and for our children are things that are on everyone's mind.
At Hostivia, we know that the power used by our datacenter to run our servers affects the world around us. With rising energy costs and pollution concerns increasing every day, we decided that the time was now to do our part to make our operations as efficient as possible. As part of implementing these changes within our company, we launched the 'Green Hosting Initiative', a program designed to let our customers know what we are doing to reduce our impact on the environment.
The first step of this program entailed a thorough review of all of our current server hardware configurations to see where improvements in efficiency could be made for future server deployments. As a result of months of research and testing, our engineers have designed all new server configurations that consume 30% to 40% less power than our current models while increasing overall performance. By using eco-friendly components from Intel, Supermicro, and Seagate, sites hosted on our servers will be served faster while using less power - a real win-win situation for our company, our customers, and our community. Finally, there is an environmentally friendly alternative for web hosting customers that doesn't require any sacrifices.
Phase 1 of our Green Hosting Initiative is focused on improving energy usage in the datacenter. Namely, all future server deployments will utilize components from Intel, Supermicro, and Seagate that are designed to decrease power consumption without sacrificing performance. New server configurations will ultimately consume 30-40% less power than older systems.
Going green is about more than just corporate responsibility, it’s also good business. As we researched our new ‘Eco-Friendly’ hardware configurations, we learned that we can deliver more powerful and reliable hosting solutions while trimming off a huge portion of our energy usage.
With the always-on nature of Web servers, the overall reduction in energy usage as a result of our Green Hosting Initiative will be significant. For the energy that we do inevitably consume, we purchase our electricity from Nevada Power, a national leader in renewable energy. Nevada Power has made a serious commitment to converting a large portion of their power generation infrastructure to renewable sources. The state of Nevada ranks first nationally for solar watts generated per capita, including the single largest solar project in the United States - the 10MW SolarStar project. Other renewable energy sources used by Nevada Power include geothermal, wind, as well as other individual small scale projects.
We are continuing to investigate new and better technologies that will allow us to further reduce our impact on the environment. In the short term, we are continuing to research further optimization of our server hardware to get even better performance from our servers with even less power consumption. In the long term, we are researching ways to to increase the efficiency of our power distribution and cooling systems, as well as investigating alternative power sources such as wind and solar to power our datacenter.
