We're just back in from a long night of moving our servers to a new datacenter. We are proud to announce that with the move, our hosting became greener. The new datacenter is powered by sustainable energy (mostly wind farms).

Apart from the greener energy supply, it is also a highly energy efficient datacenter. By using Cooling Alleys ™ and Smart Cooling Software ™ the servers are cooled better than in conventional datacenters, using less power.

Another simple but effective measure taken in the datacenter: lighting is activated by sensors that register movement. Only the alleys where people are working get illuminated.

Besides all these energy efficient measures, the datacenter has a N+1 redundancy strategy, making it very reliable. All things considered, we decided to go for it. And we're in good company: Q-Music (one of the bigger radio stations in Holland) hosts their audio and video streams at the same location.

We got an interesting offer by the 'World Servants' from our own region (Velsen).

'World Servants' is an organisation that dispatches groups of volunteers to countries such as Ghana and Malawi to build schools and other facilities, especially in areas where people can't afford to build these themselves. That's a great initiative, and definately worth sponsoring. Especially considering the fact that the volunteers have to pay for the tickets, the building material and all other costs themselves.

They thought of a great win-win situation, by buying a large advertisement space in the local newspaper, and then selling parts of that space at a higher rate to companies. We decided to go for quite a chunk of that advertisement page, and created a swell advertisement to fill all that space. We hope a lot of other companies did the same.

If you'd like to know more about this group, they do have a website: www.worldservantsvelsen.nl