For more than 20 years we’ve built our business on honesty, transparency, and a desire to deliver. As well as looking after our customers, we’re constantly working hard to make a positive environmental difference, both locally and globally.
Here are some of our initiatives.
Sustainable hosting Environmentally conscious
Our focus on the environment
Responsible data centre power
There’s no getting around the fact that data centres are power-hungry facilities. The servers and networking equipment that underpin our services, utilise a tremendous amount of power.
With that in mind, we try to source our suppliers as responsibly as possible to mitigate as much of our workload as possible. Our primary data centre in Manchester is Datum, a facility which runs on renewable energy.
Responsible sourcing to eliminate our biggest burden on the environment
Remote work as standard
By default, our team works remotely. Not only does this help our people spend a little more time with their families, but it also helps reduce congestion on the road and rail
networks during the working week.
To offset our team’s impact from their homes, we work with Ecologi, under their Climate Action Workforce scheme. This program sees us contribute every month to schemes that include tree planting, carbon avoidance, carbon removal, and habitat restoration. You can see the impact of our ongoing investments here.
Considerate hardware recycling
Our hosting business can generate waste material, mainly in the form of spent hardware. However, with the help of Tech Recycle, every defunct server, switch, router, printer and desktop PC is recycled rather than sent to landfill.
As an added environmental bonus, Tech Recycle also commits to planting new trees for every piece of hardware recycled through it, as part of its business model.
Recycled
rather than sent
to landfill
Partnering with The Green Web Foundation
Don’t just take our word for it. As a partner of The Green Web Foundation, our sustainable hosting credentials are independently assessed and verified for their environmental suitability.
Legacy activity
The Woodland Trust is the largest woodland conservation charity in the UK. Through its Woodland Carbon project we previously contributed multiple years of funding to help with the planting of new native woodland. The project aims to plant on average 25m2 of woodland for each tonne of CO2 emitted, absorbing CO2 emissions from the atmosphere and storing them in the trees as they grow.
As part of the former commitment, we aimed to plant 7,500m2 of new woodland through this scheme, each and every year.
Our focus on society
Non-profit activities
For most charities, every last penny is crucial. Each pound saved on web hosting means an extra pound can be spent directly on core activities.
That’s why we provide free hosting to more than 600 UK charities, donating 10% of our capacity to good causes. View our Charity Hosting page.
WordPress user groups
As WordPress is a key component of what we do, we’re helping to grow its grassroots community within the UK. From supporting monthly meetups across the country, to actively participating in online events and discussion.
Our focus on community
Hire and train in the UK
We don’t outsource any of our support department roles. We never have and it’s unlikely we ever will.
Every one of our team members is hired and trained exclusively within the UK. When you pick up the phone and call us, you’ll speak to someone recruited locally. It gives us more control over the quality of our service, and that’s what makes us different.
A Living Wage employer
We believe it’s important to invest in people. That’s why we pay the real Living Wage. It’s higher than the government minimum and it is voluntarily paid by UK businesses who believe their people deserve a fair day’s pay for a hard day’s work.
It’s perfectly aligned with our values and our long-term investment in our people, allowing us to provide an unrivalled experience for customers.
It really is a team thing
This isn’t just corporate spin, either. All our
team members have a similar attitude and outlook on life. It’s one of the reasons they came to us, and it’s part of why we recruited them.
We do the right thing, for the right reasons.
Ready to get started?
Are you ready for outstanding service and impeccable hosting, with an eye firmly fixed on a sustainable future? We’re so convinced you’ll love what we do, we’ll even give you a 30-day money-back guarantee. If you ever decide you want to leave us you can close your account and we’ll refund the last 30 days of your hosting fees.
Choose a plan or get in touch today, so we can learn more about your business and help you achieve your online ambitions.
