Running a complex website requires more than just a simple server and some bandwidth. We use Rochen one of the very best CMS hosts in the world to provide a flexible infrastructure able to accommodate your application hosting requirements and any sudden bandwidth bursts caused by an increase in traffic.

Our hosting set-up offers clients excellent potential for current and future growth, especially for sites that are interactive and rich in content/media.

Green Hosting

Many of Rochen’s clients have become more concerned with environmental and green issues in recent years and we want to do what we can to help address these without compromising the quality of service Rochen has become renowned for throughout the industry. At the same time we wanted to do this in a genuine and honest way as there are also many critics surrounding these types of issues. Our green hosting initiatives consist of both carbon offsetting as well as improvements in technology and business processes.

Reduced Energy Consumption

While overall emissions may rise as our business grows, our long-term game plan is to actually reduce Rochen’s emissions on a per client basis across our operations. This means that the carbon emissions generated by delivering service to a client today are less than they were a year ago and going into the future we hope to reduce them further. Many steps have already been taken on the technology front to achieve this such as investing in more expensive but far more power efficient computer processors, like Intel's latest Nehalem line of CPUs. Likewise, where in the past we would install sixteen 1GB RAM sticks in a server we will now install four 4GB RAM sticks instead, giving the same computing power but reducing power usage by around 30 watts per server. This adds up to a lot of savings across an entire data center. With the rising cost of electricity, reducing our energy consumption makes both business and environmental sense for Rochen.

Data Center Cooling Improvements

It is a little known fact in hosting that for every amp of power used to run a server in a data centre it takes on average another amp of power to run the climate control systems that cool it. Rochen has been working to reduce the amount of power consumed in our cooling operations in several different ways. Firstly, we have installed filler panels in all of our cabinet slots that are not actually filled by servers. This means all of the cold air is forced through the servers instead of passing through gaps above or below. It takes lot of energy to cool the air in a data centre, especially in the summer months, so not passing all of the cool air through the servers is wasteful which is what the filler panels help to prevent. Secondly, our exclusive server hardware vendor, Supermicro, design the best rackmount system chassis available in terms of air flow design. By deploying servers with the best possible air flow it actually allows us to raise the ambient air temperature of data centre floor by around two degrees Fahrenheit without compromising service in any way at all. By raising the floor temperature slightly we can reduce the load on the climate control systems. Lastly, we also invest heavily in other technologies to improve airflow and cooling like raised flooring with perforated tiles throughout the facility and efficient hot / cold isle cabinet layouts on the data centre floor.

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Following the launch of our green hosting initiatives in November 2008, Rochen was contacted by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) World Conservation Monitoring Centre. They were impressed with the practical and open steps Rochen had taken to be more environmentally friendly by offsetting carbon emissions, increasing the efficiency of our hosting operations and committing ourselves to continual improvement. The UNEP now hosts their Conservation Commons website with Rochen.