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Green Hosting - The A2 Way

 It's so essential to help protect our environment on not just a local level, but on a global one as well. Protecting the environment for our future generations; that in a nutshell explains the goal of FutureServe Green Hosting.

 

Green Hosting Partnership with Carbonfund.org

One of our first green initiatives was our partnership with Carbonfund.org in 2007. With their help, every year we offset some of our servers’ CO2 emissions and reduce our carbon footprint. We picked Carbonfund.org because they are a leading organization in the fight against global climate change. Their work centers on reforestation and promoting energy efficiency. A2 Hosting's partnership with Carbonfund.org helps aid us in our green hosting mission and helps Carbonfund.org continue their development of clean, renewable sources of energy and the reduction of CO2 emissions on a global scale.

 

Our Green Hosting Practices

• Telecommuting –To prevent unnecessary CO2 emissions from daily commutes to an office, our employees work remotely from their homes. In the last year we’ve saved about 705 tons of CO2 by skipping the daily commute. That’s equivalent to three times the weight of the Statue of Liberty!
• 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.
• Saving Electricity – By not powering an office building we’ve been able to save over 960,000 kWh in the last year. That’s enough energy to power an electric car to drive 376,470 laps of Le Mans in France!
• Solid State Disk Drives (SSD) and NVMe SSD Drives - SSDs and NVMe SSD's 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.
• Online Communications – In the last year we’ve saved over one million sheets of paper by communicating through email rather than print. That’s equivalent to a stack of paper about as tall as the Big Ben!
• Limiting Water Usage – By not working in an office we’ve saved over 1,305,000 gallons of water. That’s enough to fill the Cathedral of Brasilia near eight times!
• Planting Trees – We've been known to run special green promotions around April. This year we’re committed to planting two trees for every package sold during Earth Week!
• Reducing Natural Gas Usage – By working at home we’ve saved over 1,152,000 cubic square feet of natural gas. That’s enough to fill one of the largest malls in the World, the CentralWorld Mall in Thailand!