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OpenSure

OpenSure provides UK-based 100% renewable energy-powered green and ethical hosting. Services include email, web, CRM, storage, collaboration, ecommerce and CRM - you name it, we host it on robust open source systems. For 15 years we’ve built excellent relationships with businesses and hosted clients in industries including building, sport, heritage, tourism, publishing, manufacturing, market research, music and finance.

Green Policies

Our Mission

Our green, ethical and sustainable approach to business is what guides us in how to meet challenges in the economy, technology and service. It is why we do things the way we do and why we keep on doing it and trying to do it better. Please visit our website to download our Environmental Policy.

Our ethos

OpenSure believes in fair, honest and transparent business dealings. We’re open and clear about the services that we provide and how much it will cost. There are no hidden charges, no freemium plans and no nasty surprises. We strive for an ethical approach in everything that we do and are always looking for the best result for our clients. In our world, no client is too small for top-notch customer service.
While we love to work with local businesses as much as we can, we hope we have no prejudices when it comes to choosing our employees, business partners and suppliers. We actively seek out opportunities to support and take part in community activities that fit within our remit. Currently we’re working closely with Herefordshire Linux and Open Source User Group to support their outreach activities; we’re supporting Hereford-based charity Concern Universal; and we support several community groups by providing free hosting and email.

Open Source software

This is the biggy. Everything that OpenSure does runs on Open Source software. There’s a lot written about the whys and wherefores of open source on our blog, but essentially we believe it offers high quality, business-grade software with strong support and infinite compatibility and freedom.

Working practices For our employees we offer a family-friendly and flexible working structure, while ensuring systems are actively monitored every minute of every day. We have organised our working set-up to require as little travel as possible and actively encourage working from home. The vast majority of the services we use on a daily basis are accessed remotely, so we have no need for energy-hungry hardware monsters in the office – a mobile, a netbook or a few PCs are enough for our local admin needs. We rarely print anything, we’re careful to switch off equipment when it’s not going to be needed and yes, it’s Fair Trade coffee in the kitchen and locally made cake in the tin.

Green web hosting We’re proud to use a UK data centre 100% powered by renewable energy. Our data centre conforms to a variety of recognized standards and for those that like to know more detail here it is: A PUE of <1.6, Free-cooling features, hot and cold aisle layouts and design and build to L.E.E.D standards. In addition we have gone as far as we possibly can to use our racks efficiently so that we are responsible for as little energy-use as possible, while maintaining the quality of service our clients have come to expect.

100% Renewable Energy The most recent stats available for energy use at the data centre give the following figures: Renewable LECs received by technology for period Jan 09 – Dec 09

• Biomass 14.9% • Hydro 0.6% • Landfill gas 19.6% • Municipal & Industrial Waste 9.5% • Off-shore wind 7.3% • On-shore wind 47.9% • Photovoltaics 0.002% • Sewage Gas 0.2%