Green Hosting
Web Wiz is the leading Green Hosting Provider.
While many Hosting Providers offer Green Hosting Services, they often only make a single change to call themselves green, while this is a step forward, to be genuinely green there there is lots of changes that need to be made.
At Web Wiz, we don't just Offset our Carbon Emissions or use 100% Renewable Energy, although we do both of these, we also generate on-site green renewable energy through our PV Solar Panel Array and store excess energy in Tesla batteries to use overnight.
The Web Hosting industry consumes vast amounts of energy. According to Greenpeace Clean Click Report, the IT sector is estimated to consume over 13% of global electricity demand by 2017, with 21% of this used by Data Centres. We therefore believe it very important to reduce the impact of our Hosting Services on the environment.
 Solar Powered Green Hosting
Our Eco Data Centre and Office are powered by our on-site Solar Panel Array of 50 high-efficiency PV Solar Panels which generates our electricity used by our Green Hosting Services.
Our Solar Panel Array can provide 7 times more renewable energy on a sunny day than is used and over a year will produce 80% of the electricity that we use.
Carbon Offsetting
 We have partnered with The World Land Trust since 2010, to offset all our Electricity (including those from renewable sources), Water and Transport carbon emissions. Their Carbon Balanced Programme protects and restores habitats under imminent threat of destruction and deliver measurable offsets for CO2 emissions. [Carbon Balanced Report 2018-2019] [Carbon Offset Certificate 2010-2019]
Our Carbon Balanced contributions have helped to protect several reserves across Ecuador including the Río Canandé Reserve in the wet Choco and the dry forests at Laipuna.
 100% Renewable Energy
Our Green Hosting is powered entirely by 100% Renewable Energy. Additional electricity that is not produced by our Solar Panel Array comes from our electricity supplier who use 100% renewable energy sources. [Certificate of Green Electricity Supply]
 Solar Energy Storage
Even after dark, our Green Hosting is still powered by the Sun! When the Sun goes down our on-site Solar Panel Array stops working, but that does not mean we cannot use the renewable energy it generates. Thanks to our Tesla rechargeable lithium-ion battery system we can store excess electricity produced during the daytime to use overnight.
 Eco Data Centre
Completed in May 2018
our Eco Data Centre is owned and operated by ourselves allowing us to build from the design stage to construction an Ecological Data Centre for our Green Hosting Services. Read more about our Eco Data Centre.
 On-site Solar Panel Array provides Green Renewable Energy
Powered by 100% Renewable Energy Sources
Carbon Emissions offset by The World Land Trust Carbon Balanced Programme
Tesla Solar Energy Storage stores excess energy from our Solar Panel Array to use overnight
Direct Air EC Fans provide Free Air Cooling and Heat Recovery
A++ Rated Air Source Heat Pumps provide cooling during the Summer months
Open Frame Racks for improved air movement and reduce the need for Air Conditioning
In Rack APC UPS Systems reduces power wastage
Natural Gas Backup Generator, much cleaner burning compared to Diesel
LED Lighting with occupancy sensors
Window film to reduce solar load
Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.16 (Rating of Very Efficient)
Free Air Cooling & Heat Recovery
During the Winter months, we have developed a Direct Air (DA), Free Air Cooling and Heat Recovery System using digitally controlled EC Ducting Fans to cool our Data Centre with the waste warm air recovered and circulated within our facility. This keeps our Servers cool and our Office warm at 20°C even on the coldest days. The system consumes as little as 200 watts, which is 60 times less energy than Air Conditioning would use.
Energy Efficient Servers
To reduce the amount of power consumed by our Green Hosting Servers we choose to build each server in-house for the job at hand. By utilising energy-efficient and low voltage components in our servers, we are able to reduce our energy usage by up to 80% compared to regular ‘off-the-shelf’ servers.
Server Virtualisation
To further reduce our carbon emissions we use Server Virtualisation. This has environmental advantages as it allows us to reduce the amount of physical power hungry servers we require by over 90%, while also improving reliability and uptime.
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