What our hosting provider does

Green Hosting Practices

Recycling Older Servers – Instead of tossing our older equipment into a landfill, we re-use it! Our retired hardware is used as internal servers, dedicated servers for clients with lower resource requirements, or is resold to the public after being wiped of it's information, of course.

Solid State Disk Drives (SSD) and NVMe - SSDs and NVMe use less energy than traditional HDDs. A2 Hosting was one of the first providers to offer SSD Hosting! We’re proud to be one of the leaders in offering more energy efficient options for our customers.

Data Center

Air-Side Economizing - We allow outside air to cool our data center saving electricity.

Hot Aisle/Cold Aisle Design - Our servers and network hardware are installed so heat is always directed into our hot aisles. This allows them to stay warmer and our cool aisles to stay colder with less air temperature control.

Containment Enclosures - In relation to the bullet above, hot air is never mixed with the cold air inside our data center. All excess heat is exhausted to the outside of our building.

Variable Speed Drives on all Fans and Motors - Our motors don't run at 100% capacity at all times. We use variable speed drives to reduce motor speeds so that they only operate at the speed necessary to perform each tasks. This drastically reduces electrical usage.

Airflow Management - We've installed blanking panels in the data center cabinets to maximize the efficiency of our cooling system.

Google

Google has been a corporate leader in sustainability. It became carbon-neutral in 2007, meaning that it has purchased offsets to balance all carbon-emitting energy sources since then, and has pledged to run on carbon-free energy by 2030.

We use Google to help with our carbon neutrality for email, either via Gmail or if you want a little step-up by using Google Workspace (formerly GSuite).