Greenest Host is a web hosting solution for individuals and small to midsize businesses that is 100% powered by solar energy. The company was founded on the principal that, in addition to being the ethically superior choice, "going green" can also provide better performance and better value. There no longer has to be a trade-off between making the right choice for the environment and having the absolute best quality of service at a market competitive price.
GreenestHost is headquartered in sunny San Diego, California, in the middle of one of the world's best year-round climate.
Our servers are powered by one of the most state-of-the-art data center designs and are located just 90 miles northeast of the city in Romoland, California -- one of the sunniest year-round areas in North America. The center, powered by 120 solar panels and year-round sun which generates an excess of power, day and night -- 365 days a year. It's more than enough to power the energy efficient AMD Opteron powered servers night and day without fail.
We've partnered with the best solar powered data center experts on earth to make sure that solar panels run our servers, not energy credits.
Our new AMD Opteron powered servers are faster and use sixty percent less energy and generate fifty percent less heat than previously available servers.
Management Team
Mike Corrales - Founder and CEO
Mike has formed a habit of building Internet startups. In the late 1990's he helped launch an Internet startup consultancy. His next online venture was a four year stint managing Internet marketing partnerships, radio and print advertising campaigns, and managing business development which helped Proflowers.com (a Provide-Commerce company) into one of the top gift retailers in the United States.
After leaving Proflowers, in early 2003, Mike got his first taste of data center operations by launching a boutique web design and development agency. He successfully sold the company in 2004.
For the next three years, he led the marketing and product development work at Streamload, an online media center applications and storage provider. His work helped Streamload (now called MediaMax) become a leader in the online storage and media sharing space with over 4 million users. Today Mike's passion for Internet-related technologies, improving the environment, lessening our impact on the earth, and growing technology businesses have met at an intersection called Greenest Host.
You can read more about Mike and his thoughts on Technology and the Environment at the Greenest Host Blog.
Paul Hannam - Chairman
Paul combines a proven track record as a successful entrepreneur, lecturer at Oxford University, trainer and author. He is the owner and Chairman of a successful computer services corporation in the UK, and co-founder of a new environmental recruitment and talent consultancy called Bright Green Talent which has offices in London and California.
Between 2001 and 2005 Paul lectured in Environmental Management, Organizational Behavior and Entrepreneurship at Oxford University where he was an associate fellow. He was also an adjunct fellow of Linacre College from 2002 until 2005. In addition, Paul owned a training business, Quantum Leap Coaching, which provided courses on leadership, change management, communication and sales to some of the world's leading corporations such as Barclays Bank, British Airways, HSBC, BT, Canon, Fidelity Investments, Mars and many more.
In 2006 his first book, Take Charge of your Mind, which he co-authored with John Selby, was published by Hampton Roads. His second book, The Magic of Groundhog Day, is published by Waterside Press February 2008.
www.paulhannam.com
www.brightgreentalent.com
www.themagicofgroundhogday.com
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By the Numbers
Each server we operate (as opposed to a server operated and cooled in a regular power-grid-connected data center) saves more than 2000 kWh annually of "dirty" electricity consumption -- that's the environment equivalent of saving 107 gallons of gasoline from being burned into the atmosphere each year and for every 5 servers we host, it's like taking the pollution of one passenger car off the road for a year.
We estimate that hosting converting even one million, of the more than 40 million personal and small business websites created annually, to green power -- it would result in annual pollution reductions equivalent to:
2,000 passenger cars taken off the road
1,070,000 gallons of gasoline not burned
21,900 barrels of oil not burned
1,200 households not using electricity for a year
240,000 tree seedlings grown for 10 years
7,900 acres of pine forests storing carbon for one year
77 acres of forest preserved from deforestation
48 railcars of coal not burned
3,200 tons of waste recycled instead of landfilled
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