As you are aware with the spike in global/international rate of electricity which is affecting every business. The rate for electricity is fluctuating and rising by the day - 8 months ago we were roughly paying €0.14 cents per KWh, and now we are paying as high as €0.62 cents per KWh (continuing to increase).
In order to maintain our cheap packages and pricing, we are planning a node upgrade which will only affect storage related nodes for now. In the upcoming days you will receive an email with more details regarding this update and critical information regarding downtime so you can plan ahead.
We plan to apply for some ECO Projects as well as plan to replace our current supplier with an ECO friendly supplier. This should have gone into affect by the end of this month, however the bureaucracy has put a hold onto our project therefore adding a further delay of 3-4 months (or more).
Some of our ideas to reduce overall power consumption at our datacenter for not to increase the price:
• We plan to implement a few larger nodes for storage. At the moment we only have 48 TB per node but we will be upgrading our storage to 96 TB per node - therefore a decrease in the total amount of available nodes.
• We plan to cut down on CPUs by removing at least 1 CPU from 70% of our available nodes
• We plan to set all servers from Maximum Power Usage to save on power
We are quite upset and we can understand your concerns. This is not something that we want to do however to ensure that we can maintain our pricing and service quality, it is a step that we must take.
If you have any further questions or concerns, do not hesitate to reach out to office@ihostart.com or discord Stapinu#0670
Kind regards,
Calin
iHostArt.com
