Providing web hosting for the British Army, Renault, Climate Change Now, as well as Vue, and Go Compare, Rackspace have an impressive list of clients.

They also have a proven track record of reliability and security, to which the British Army were clearly drawn, as the Rackspace website testifies:

“The Army needed a hosting company who could deliver guaranteed uptime and security for their ArmyNET portal. Out of 5 companies who submitted tenders, Rackspace clearly shone out above all the others!“.

Rackspace have garnered an excellent reputation in the industry as a result of that security and reliability, and have matched it at all times with an excellent support team; hosting with Rackspace guarantees around the clock service, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

For small businesses and more, then, Rackspace are the perfect hosting company, with maximum security and more support than you can shake a stick at; certainly around the clock support is always helpful in the fast paced world of the web, and we at Ecoswitch – who also use Rackspace hosting services – have found that support to be both useful and effective.

Green Web Hosting Solutions from Rackspace

Ecoswitch didn’t choose Rackspace simply for its reliability and service. It is also one of the most famous web hosting companies that  have chosen to make changes to their practices in accordance with growing environmental concerns.

In the words of Rackspace themselves,

“Rackspace® takes the environment seriously and has several initiatives towards making our own company greener and reducing our carbon footprint, which in turn helps make our customers become greener too. Our initiatives are wrapped into Greenspace.

Initiatives include carbon offsetting as well as reduction in the first place, by using the most power efficient hardware as well as building new facilities which utilise the latest power efficient technologies.

While Rackspace doesn’t claim to have the absolute answer, we are committed to contributing our part toward the larger picture. It’s going to take industry leaders like Rackspace to step up and admit there are much more environmentally friendly ways of doing things“.

Making that step towards a lower carbon service certainly places Rackspace ahead of its competitors; no one is going to pretend that the web and the servers that power it are not contributing substantially to carbon emissions, but with companies like Rackspace offering a lower carbon alternative, it makes it a little easier to justify the continued creation of new websites.

The net is without doubt one of the most exciting creations developed in the last 100 years. Its vast expansion has placed it at the centre of our culture. Certainly its potential and its importance will keep the internet going well into the future.

It is good to know, though, that companies like Rackspace are thinking about what impact it might have on the environment in that future.

For more info on Rackspace green hosting solutions, please visit their website.