Solar Closeup

Iron Mountain Hosting was the 2nd hosting company to adopt solar power back in April 2007.

We thought we were the first ones to adopt solar power for webhosting but it turns out that www.AISO.net beat us to the punch by over a year. They were the first ones to do so and we gladly tip our green hats off to them.

We highly recommend them as a Windows and Linux webhosting company that is responsible to our environment.

Any company that takes an active stance in preserving our environment while maintaining profitability and good business ethics gains our respect and admiration.

We recently took our solar panels down from our building to do some retrofitting. Why would we take down some perfectly working solar panels?

Well, the answer comes in many parts:

  • We wanted to get better visibility for the panels
  • Many people still think a solar cell is only good for a pocket calculator
  • People kept trying to climb our roof to have a look at our solar array
  • We wanted to promote more public awareness to the viability of solar panels as an alternative energy source.
  • They look cool
  • Gives us a reason to setup a Solar FreewayCam

Really, any of these are good reasons but the most important one really had to be that we had too much free time on our hands.

West wingThanks to the kind gents at Valuesolar.com, we had a quick turn-around time for the retrofitting and new racks. As soon as our new setup gets approved, we’ll be rigging these panels back up again.

So as stated in the topic, we’ve gotten the bad boys back and we’ll start blogging about the installation.

The red dot should give you an idea of where they will now be placed. This picture is taken from the west wing of our building. We’ll be stringing them along our South facing side.