AISO Named Inc. Top Co.
Romoland, California - (The Hosting News) - November 20, 2006 - Environmentally friendly web hosting firm, AISO.Net, has been named on Inc. Magazine’s inaugural list of ”The Green 50,” a list of the nation’s most environmentally responsible companies. The company will be featured on both the Inc.com web site and the November 2006 issue of Inc. Magazine.
According to the company, AISO.Net, is California’s first and only solar-powered hosting company based in Romoland, California. Providing environmentally friendly web hosting services since 1997, the company uses solar panels to power its data center and network, and hosts web sites and dedicated servers for customers throughout the US and many other parts of the world. AISO.Net is the only true 100% solar powered data center that does not use green energy credits. In 2007 eco-friendly hosting company AISO.Net will become the first and only public data center in North America to add a green roof to their facility.
The company hosts web sites and dedicated servers for customers throughout the US and many other parts of the world. Due to their massive growth of web hosting and dedicated server clients, AISO.Net just recently chose to virtualize their hosting solution. Using VMware and NetApps’ clustered SAN (storage area network) solution to enhance their data center and reduce electricity usage. The VMware and NetApp solution also provides a high end, scalable infrastructure solution for their dedicated and shared hosting clients. AISO is moving all of their physical servers into virtual machines, which in turn will reduce power consumption and will be better for their clients and the environment.
Phil Nail, Technology Manager for AISO.Net offered, ”The Green 50 award is well timed as we migrate all of our physical machines and our clients’ machines into this new redundent virtual environment. Inc. magazine was able to see that we are trying to help the environment in many ways on top of being a solar powered data center and has chosen to shine a spotlight on our business. It is our hope that the Green 50 will serve as examples to promote the idea that there are ways to profitably do the right thing for our environment.”
The 2006 Inc. Green 50 list is a collection of the top 50 most intriguing companies that are helping to drive today’s green revolution. They are entrepreneurial companies that are showing what it means to run good businesses and attack the most pressing problems of our time.
Inc. major business magazine is dedicated exclusively to owners and managers of growing private companies. It provides hands-on tools and market-tested strategies for managing people, finances, sales, marketing, and technology. Inc., a Mansueto Ventures LLC publication, inspires and informs, with cutting-edge coverage that reflects our readers’ energy, brashness, and imagination.
AISO.Net has been a trusted name in environmentally friendly web hosting since 1997, providing a level of service that is unmatched in the industry. All network and server hardware is fully redundant with 24×7-automated systems monitoring to ensure the highest possible uptime. Using solar panels to power its data center and network, AISO.Net is the first and only 100% completely solar powered web hosting company. Customers as far away as Kenya, East Africa rely on the service and reliability offered by AISO.Net.
To learn more about Inc. Magazine’s article about AISO.Net, “The Integrators,” please visit:
www.inc.com/magazine/20061101/green50_integrators_pagen_4.html
For more information about AISO.Net, please visit: www.aiso.net.
Web Hosting Finds Blog » Green Web Hosts
January 29, 2007 @ 131611:06 am
[...] Last year we reported on a solar-powered web hosting company, AISO.Net, has chosen data storage and virtualization software firm, Sirius Computer Solutions, to enhance its data center and reduce electricity usage by providing a high end, scalable infrastructure solution for its dedicated and shared web hosting clients. AISO.Net says that they are: a reliable and responsible green web hosting company. We have made a strong commitment to help fight pollution and preserving our natural resources. Solar panels run our data center and office, not energy credits. [...]
Jodi
April 5, 2007 @ 32868:33 am
While I would give my eye teeth to host with a truly solar powered server, AISO makes it cost prohibitive for me to do so. As a reseller who hosts design clients, I have no choice but to buy energy credits. Researching where that money is going can be a full time job, but it’s a step in the right direction. If Mr. Nail would create a program that is as affordable as it is green, we’d see a HUGE difference in the number of truly industrious and sincere site owners that wish to participate in sustainable technology. As it is right now, I don’t think that saying, “… these so called green web hosts” and “… and buying green credits doesn’t make your company green” is helpful at all. Not to mention the fact that it’s mean. Those comments don’t take into consideration those very small and home based businesses that are making every attempt to be sustainable in their business practices doing everything they can from recycling at the office and at home, buying sustainable products to gardening their own food and/or buying local.
These things are all intertwined and they all must work synergistically as must we. I can understand that attacking those that are only trying to ride an economical ‘green’ wave, but those sort of sweeping statements really leave out the conscientious small business, which in my humble opinion is the backbone of his larger one.