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Carbon Neutral Energy
Most datacentres provide the cheapest electricity possible to their customers and offer little flexibility of
energy supplier. We negotiate with the facilities management
teams of the datacentres we use, and where possible we buy green electricity to supply our equipment. Otherwise we
calculate our total carbon emissions and offset them with local schemes.
Efficient Cooling
Nearly all the energy going into servers gets turned into heat. Our datacentres use inverter-driven
air conditioning and high efficiency uninterruptible power supplies to get the most out of the energy we use.
In winter our office is warmed by heat recovered from the server room.
Virtualisation and Server Sharing
Other companies run their servers at around 25% load — for only a little more
energy consumption, these servers could do far more work! We virtualise our
servers to increase utilisation, so that our servers get maximum energy
efficiency, while balancing customer needs for increased server
performance.
Lifetime Warranty Equipment
Most computer hardware has
a limited warranty period, and it is common practice within the IT
industry to replace equipment as soon as it is out of the warranty
period. Where possible Faelix purchases equipment with a lifetime
warranty to minimise equipment turnover.
Optional Landfill Diversion
What happens when
businesses upgrade their equipment or throw away out-of-warranty
equipment? A huge amount of functioning equipment is written off by
businesses caught in the warranty/upgrade cycle. Some equipment is sent
to developing countries, but this still adds "freight miles" to the
environmental cost.
Some of Faelix's servers have been purchased from hardware reconditioning businesses who aim to divert computer waste from landfill. This is not without drawbacks, as we must still guarantee good service to our customers! To ensure reliable service, Faelix either extends warranty with the original manufacturers, or purchase and hold spares on-site, or use Faelix's expertise in delivering high-availability systems by building "resilient clusters" so that failure of an out-of-service component won't affect your business.
Travel and Transport
We use public transport as much as possible. We never use planes, even
for personal holidays. Our cars have small engines and average over 40mpg.
All calculated emissions from travelling are carbon-offset.
Discount for Green/Eco Projects
If your business shares the ecological ideals of Faelix, you can take
advantage of up to 10% discount on listed hosting prices.
Ethical Finances
Our finances are ethically invested using the Co-operative Bank.
Customers First
Faelix Limited is an independent, privately owned, small business.
We answer to our customers, not our shareholders.
Open Source
Rather than spending on commercial software Faelix uses free, open source software. Faelix contributes to the open source
community because so many open source projects have helped our business succeed.
We believe this approach benefits software and society far more than making monopolistic software companies even richer.
Local
All our services are provided by staff based in Manchester, UK.
No Call Centres
If you need support, rest assured that you'll be speaking directly to the experts.