Web Hosting that is Good for the Environment!

Project BIG fish web hosting company, Irides provides a unique Green Hosting service.

Irides is unique in its combination of fully managed hosting services with a zero-emission data center. There are a handful of hosting companies that provide simple co-location or shared hosting services but only Irides has gone to the next step. Irides has a dedicated engineering team to manage your servers and no CO2 from powering servers. No CO2 from cooling. No CO2 from running the routers and network infrastructure that keeps everything connected.

Our goal is to demonstrate that being Green is compatiable with "normal" business practise. And we succeed. There is no compromise when it comes to uptime, reliability and support. Our customers - all our customers - receive the benefits of Green Hosting.
Environmental Benefits

According to an April 2007 study by Gartner, 2% off all CO2 emissions world wide are caused by information and communications technology (ICT). Of that, 23% comes from data centers. Irides' Alrington, VA data center is powered by 100% renewable energy and does not contribute to CO2 emissions from daily operations. Our action is only a small part of the much larger goal of reducing carbon emissions but our conversion to renewable energy prevents approximately 1,000 metric tonnes of CO2 emissions per year.

One thousand tons of CO2 is easier to understand when it is compared to other activities that generate CO2. Each of the following produces about the same emissions as running our data center for one year.

• Running 170 mid-sized family cars for a year (20 mpg,15K miles annually)
• Powering 124 average American homes for one year
• Five railcars worth of coal
• 2,170 barrels of oil.