Enviromental Statement
Bird Hosting is a leading edge digital hosting
company with a conscience. We make every effort to maximize the value of
our services for our clients by providing the connectivity that their
businesses and non-profit interests require, but we are also aware of
our responsibility in the larger sense to maintain a sustainable and
reasonable environmental footprint at each step along the way.
Our environmental savings come primarily from
actions that we take to minimize waste and avoid unnecessary redundant
expenditures of energy. The advancements in Cloud Hosting technologies
and our early decision to move to 3Tera's Applogic platform have
provided real world results that can be easily and clearly stated in
terms of dollars and cents - but the more significant outcome is a
cleaner, safer and more eco-friendly impact for all of our day to day
operations.
Bird Hosting now utilizes Cloud Hosting for 94%
of its bandwidth and server capabilities. Cloud Hosting architecture
allows us to use capacity that would have become 'wasted server loads'
using a more traditional technical schematic. What this means in layman
terms is that Bird Hosting minimizes every fine-tuned detail of our
server usage and power consumption by maximizing what would otherwise be
considered 'dead space' or 'excess throughput.'
Since our move to the newest 3Tera Applogic
architecture in 2009, Bird Hosting has managed to reduce the
environmental footprint of our Seattle Datacenter from seven full racks
of inefficient equipment to a cloud based system that uses less than
one full rack of space. We also curtailed our power consumption from
nine 208v 20amp Circuits to a single 208v 30 amp circuit which is
capable of powering thousands of exceptionally responsive websites and
online applications for our clients. To give you some perspective on the
significance of these moves, Bird Hosting reduced the cost of our
electricity bills from roughly $4,320.00 per month to just shy of
$560.00 per month (an amazing 88% reduction in power costs on a monthly
basis). Best of all, that savings is passed along to our clients with
reduced monthly fees, and in essence just by hosting with our company
you are taking a green initiative to save money and sustain the world we
all live on.
It is very important to keep in mind that the
goal of environmental sustainability does not compete with our parallel
goal of providing the greatest data security possible anywhere in the
world. Redundant servers and state of the art software have no
environmental costs because they are dormant until needed. Our guarantee
to keep your sites online all the time coexists perfectly with our
guarantee to maintain our environment for our neighbors while keeping
our promises to our clients.
Bird Hosting is headquartered in the Pacific
Northwest near Seattle, an area of the world well-known for solving
environmental difficulties and overcoming perceived obstacles when it
comes to conservation. We are rooted in these important ecological
values and it even shows in our company name. With data centers in
Dallas and soon elsewhere we are helping to bring our green ideas to other
communities in the hope that we can be an example both in word and in
deed for tech companies, conservationists and the public. Green is the
color of vegetation and the color of money. Being green helps Bird
Hosting save both.
Michael Wallace
President
BirdHosting.com
