(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In collaboration with Dell (www.dell.com), Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) and data center EvoSwitch (www.evoswitch.com), hosting provider LeaseWeb (www.leaseweb.com) has tested and implemented an extremely energy-efficient dedicated server environment.
According to its Thursday announcement, LeaseWeb’s dedicated server environment is currently in the beta stage and has a calculated Power Usage Effectiveness of 1.1. During this introductory period, clients can try these Ultra Green Dedicated Servers at a discounted price. LeaseWeb’s discounted Ultra Green Dedicated Servers start at €34 (about $46) for an EverCase ECR9130 equipped with a 2.0 GHz Intel Core Duo T2450 and 1GB of RAM, which is regularly €49 (about $67).
In collaboration with EvoSwitch engineers, LeaseWeb’s research and development team installed the energy-efficient dedicated server environment in a private suite in EvoSwitch’s green data center. The innovative server setup is cooled using outside air in a process known as “free cooling” and the cooling is optimized using aisle containment that separates hot and cold air.
“[T]he design of the Total solution is completely different from what is common in the market,” LeaseWeb product manager Thorsten Einig said in a statement. “It is not a cooling solution with a traditional design, and it is completely different from the current cooling setup at EvoSwitch or other data centers…. We have also chosen extremely energy-efficient server equipment that has been specifically programmed and tuned to the cooling system.”
Combined with highly efficient hardware results in a server environment that allows the compressor to remain fully switched off throughout the year. “The dedicated server setup, according to our calculations, could have a Power Usage Effectiveness of 1.1, which is considerably less than the current PUE of 1.5 within the overall data center environment of EvoSwitch,” Einig said. “A PUE of 1.1 means that the server setup is 90 percent more energy-efficient in its operation than a conventional server setup with ‘standard’ cooling.”
Einig said that the new server environment has undergone extensive testing over the past six months with amazing results. “Due to our presence at EvoSwitch, we fortunately already have many servers that are quite energy-efficient in their operation, but this separate environment with its own cooling design allows us to achieve significantly higher energy savings,” he said. “In the coming period, we will need to further increase the number of clients in this environment in order to achieve the pre-calculated PUE of 1.1. It is known that the PUE drops as the server volume increases.”
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