SUSTAINABILITY

Sustainable web development

The internet runs on electricity and hardware. We keep our share of it small: renewable-powered hosting, repairable laptops, AI used with restraint, and websites that do more with less.

See How We Do It

100%

renewable electricity in IONOS data centres

100%

renewable electricity for Hetzner in Germany

0

desktop computers: we develop only on laptops

2

AI subscriptions for the whole company

HOSTING POWERED BY RENEWABLES

Most of a website's energy is used in the data centre, so who hosts it matters more than almost anything else. We host our own and our clients' sites with three providers:

IONOS

  • Data centres run on 100% renewable electricity, and 99.8% of all energy across its infrastructure was renewable in 2025.
  • Three of its own data centres generate solar power on site.
  • 100% of data centre IT hardware was recycled or reused in 2025.
Source: IONOS

Hetzner

  • In Germany, 100% of its electricity comes from renewable sources.
  • Average power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.13, so very little energy goes on anything other than the servers.
  • Cut its emissions by about 77,000 tonnes of CO₂ in 2025, compared with the German grid mix.
Source: Hetzner

DigitalOcean

  • Used where a project needs its particular regions or managed services.
  • Reports efficient data centres, but publishes much less than IONOS or Hetzner about where its energy comes from.
  • When sustainability matters to a client, that is one of the things we take into account when choosing where to host.

Figures are from each provider's published sustainability information, checked November 2026. Find out more about our managed hosting.

LAPTOPS ONLY, AND REPAIRABLE ONES

We develop only on laptops. There are no desktop towers or always-on office machines, and a laptop uses a fraction of the power of a typical desktop computer and monitor.

Our laptops are made by Framework, designed to be repaired and upgraded rather than replaced. The battery, screen, keyboard, ports and even the mainboard can be swapped out, so when something wears out or gets slow, we change that one part and keep the rest.

Making a new laptop accounts for a large share of its lifetime carbon footprint, so the most sustainable laptop is usually the one you already own, kept going for longer.

AI, USED WITH RESTRAINT

AI is one of the fastest-growing users of data centre energy. We do use it, where it genuinely saves time, but the whole company runs on just two subscriptions, costing about £30 a month between them.

We don't train our own models, run GPU servers or generate content in bulk. When we add AI to a client's system, we use it where it earns its place, choose the smallest model that does the job well, and don't call it when ordinary code will do.

EFFICIENT SOFTWARE USES LESS ENERGY

1

Server-rendered pages

We build with Laravel and Livewire, so pages arrive ready to read instead of making every visitor's device run a large JavaScript application.

2

Right-sized servers

Efficient code needs less hardware. We size servers to the job and tune slow queries rather than throwing more machines at them.

3

Lighter pages

Compressed images, minimal scripts and caching mean less data sent over the network for every visit.

4

Systems that last

Rescuing and upgrading a system, rather than rebuilding it every few years, avoids repeating all the work and energy that went into it.

Faster sites are better for visitors and search rankings too. See performance monitoring and legacy system support.

WHERE WE STILL HAVE WORK TO DO

We'd rather be honest than make claims we can't back up. We are not carbon neutral, and neither are all of our suppliers: Hetzner itself says it is not yet completely climate neutral, and DigitalOcean publishes little about its energy sources. The AI services we use run in data centres we don't control.

What we can do is make sensible choices at every step, keep checking them, and help our clients do the same.

Our commitments

  • Prefer suppliers with clear environmental commitments and reporting.
  • Repair and upgrade our equipment before replacing it.
  • Build lean, efficient websites and systems that last.
  • Use AI deliberately, not by default.
  • Review this page and our suppliers' figures every year.

TALK TO US ABOUT GREENER HOSTING

Want to know where your website is hosted and how green it is? Get in touch and we'll find out for you.

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Prefer to talk? Call us on 0114 299 8033, 9am–5pm Monday–Friday.

Contact Information

Artumi Systems Ltd. Company Number 8557359

VAT Reg 889031788

Phone number: 0114 299 8033

Opening hours: 9am–5pm, Monday–Friday