The web host that gives back more power than it uses.

Fair enough — we would want proof too. In 2006 there was almost nowhere to rent a server that ran on clean energy, so we bought renewable energy certificates and made sure every office we worked from was on a certified renewable tariff. No commute, no separate building running lights and air conditioning around the clock.

Then we found the upstream provider our servers have lived with for over a decade, powered directly by renewables. At that point “carbon-neutral” stopped needing an asterisk about carbon trading.

Today the main office is a home with what the installers described as “clearly too many solar panels”. Anything the panels do not cover still arrives directly from renewable energy sources. The result is that we put more electricity into the grid than we take out — and a meaningful share of what we export, we are never paid for.

That commitment informs our decisions, individually and as a company. Being “green,” saving electricity and using it carefully, is only one part of a larger mission, and we have never pretended otherwise. Perhaps it is no surprise that everyone who has been involved here already agreed with it before they arrived, and has gone out of their way to help make the world a cleaner and a fairer place. Our culture keeps attracting the same sort of person, so we expect that to carry on. Which is to say: your patronage contributes to rather more than “just” a reduction in carbon.

When we choose a vendor, we do our due diligence. When we hire a subcontractor, we make sure they are paid fairly. We turn down paying customers whose work we cannot stand behind. Do all of that for long enough and our customers’ missions become our own. That’s why the support is so good, rather than the support being a thing we grudgingly tack on. The change we want to see in the world, everywhere possible!