(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider ServInt (www.servint.net) has met its climate-positive web hosting goals for 2008, having offset by at least 110 percent the total carbon footprint of its entire line of virtual private servers, including its SuperVPS service, by funding reforestation campaigns.
According to ServInt’s Wednesday announcement, the company launched its Green Initiative in June 2008, encompassing multiple green methodologies to help customers operate with minimal environmental impact. The company offset its carbon emissions by funding a large-scale reforestation campaign operated by American Forests (www.americanforests.org).
ServInt also made other aspects of its business more environmentally friendly by recycling all possible components and exceeding the environmental standards when disposing all non-recyclable hazardous components.
Aside from paying for projects intended to reverse climate change, ServInt has reduced its own impact by exclusively using of low-voltage Dell server hardware for two of its most popular hosting services, SuperVPS and UltimateVPS, and using sophisticated virtualization to increase efficiency while providing the same computing performance of a traditional dedicated server.
ServInt founder and chief executive officer Reed Caldwell said his company is committed to the precepts of “Lean Manufacturing” by running the least-wasteful organization possible.
“In 2008, we helped ourselves, our customers and the planet by utilizing efficient servers, recycling our components and investing in carbon-offset projects,” Caldwell said in a statement. “This year, we will continue our commitment to these green measures and go even further by exploring new ways of decreasing waste and increasing efficiency.”
In January, ServInt introduced a new line of dedicated servers that incorporate a virtualization layer, creating a high-performance application and web hosting solution built on Parallels’ Virtuozzo platform.
