What powers our website matters. Not just for uptime, speed, and reliability, but also for positive environmental impact. Vasec is proud to host our website with DreamHost. Their strong commitment to green hosting aligns seamlessly with Vasec’s values, allowing us to offer our visitors fast loading times, while also promoting responsible stewardship of the planet.
What Does “Green Hosting” Really Mean?
DreamHost defines its green hosting model through several key practices:
- Efficient data centers and hardware: The infrastructure uses high-efficiency cooling, and where possible, processors optimized for reduced energy usage. This means the machines doing the work behind Vasec are running more cleanly and using less power.
- Renewable energy sourcing: DreamHost partners with clean wind programs at the state level, and its data centers are powered by electricity grids that include a growing share of renewable sources.
- Remote-first culture & reduced commuting: By allowing employees to work remotely and relying heavily on virtual meetings, DreamHost lowers energy usage associated with commuting. For Vasec, this means our provider’s operational emissions are reduced.
- Paperless / minimal waste operations: DreamHost minimizes its environmental footprint through policies like electronic forms and filings, no strict dress codes (which reduces need for industrial cleaning).
What Vasec Does, and What Comes Next
While our hosting choice is a big part of the puzzle, Vasec also takes steps internally to make our digital presence more sustainable:
- Optimizing site speed and performance, which reduces server load and energy consumption.
- Using compressed images, efficient code, caching, etc., to reduce data transfer and resource usage.
Looking ahead, Vasec is exploring further steps like measuring the site’s carbon emissions (from traffic, hosting, etc.), offsetting where necessary, and perhaps integrating even more renewable-based tools (e.g. green CDNs, more efficient load balancing) to further reduce impact.
Hosting is not neutral. The choice of provider has implications for energy consumption, carbon emissions, and environmental sustainability. Many of Vasec’s readers and supporters care deeply about environmental impact. Hosting with a provider like DreamHost allows us to align our operations with those values, so we can say that Vasec doesn’t just talk about sustainability, it lives it.