Environment
Bithell Studios takes its commitment to the environment seriously, and all carbon emissions are offset where possible. The providers we primarily use are outlined below, alongside their environmental impact.
Website
adam-rms.com (this website)
Agolia
We use Agolia to power the search on this site, and they are also committed to reducing their environmental impact
Github
Github has been Carbon Neutral since 2019.
Hosted Solution
dash.adam-rms.com
Servers
AdamRMS is hosted on servers provided by Hetzner and DigitalOcean.
Hetzner is not yet completely climate neutral. Their electricity is sourced from from hydropower.
DigitalOcean is committed to minimizing its carbon footprint and maintaining sustainable practices. DigitalOcean actively invests in utilizing efficient server hardware and optimizing the overall energy efficiency of its data centers, which have a power usage effectiveness (PUE) averaging at 1.15. By leveraging renewable energy, DigitalOcean aims to make an even greater positive environmental impact.
File Storage
AdamRMS uses AWS, which purchases Renewable Energy Credits [RES] and Guarantees of Origin to cover any non-renewable energy they use in the Europe (Ireland) region we use primarily for file storage and the Europe (Frankfurt) region we use for backups. AdamRMS also uses Cloudflare R2 for file storage - see details on Cloudflare below.
Reverse Proxy & DNS
Cloudflare is committed to reducing its environmental impact and purchases RECs to match all electricity use globally.
E-mail delivery
Twilio is working on reducing its impact
Login with Google
Google publishes their sustainability plans at cloud.google.com/sustainability
Login with Microsoft
Microsoft publishes their sustainability plans at microsoft.com/sustainability
Operations
Support Platform & Service Status
We use Freshdesk, provided by Freshworks and hosted on AWS, to help provide customer support. We are awaiting details of their environmental credentials.
Monitoring
We are awaiting details from Sentry and DataDog on their environmental impact.
Analytics
We do not use Google Analytics or any other analytics service other than that provided as part of Cloudflare.