This weekend I finally moved my website to a new web host: Ecohost, possibly the ultimate web host.
It’s been a long time coming because my criteria for a new host included that it be low carbon, not store any data in the U.S. and do business in English. That’s a surprisingly difficult combination being that most English-speaking low carbon web hosts are in the U.S., using Californian solar energy to power their data centres.
I would have liked bragging rights that my web host produced its own energy but these guys do the next best thing, according to their website, and offer webspace in a data centre called Smartbunker, powered by 100% renewable energy sourced from Ecotricity.
Furthermore this data centre is apparently located in a high-security former nuclear bunker, offering a money back guarantee of 100% uptime. Not that my web host offers this but I’ll be curious to see how reliable it is compared to my last host.
And to top it all off, not only is Ecobee low carbon but it’s also a not-for-profit co-operative. Being a pareconist it really doesn’t get much better than this!
So it’s all roses—and fast to boot—but I’ll be sure to keep you posted.
Update 16-05-2008: Name changed from Ecobee to Ecohost
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