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Family Hosting |  6 recommendations - 63 criteria

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Location

Is the waste from the data center recovered or recycled ?

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Energy

Is PUE (Power Usage Effectivness) available ?

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Location

Does the water used come from the drinking water supply ?

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Energy

Is the building LEED / BDM certified or equivalent ?

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Energy

Is the cooling optimized based on accurate temperature analysis ?

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Energy

Are the server power supplies efficient ?

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Energy

Is the occupancy rate of the datacenter rooms optimized to improve the energy balance ?

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Energie

Is WUE (Water Usage Effectivness) available ?

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Energie

Does the provider subscribe to best practives for datacenters ?

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Hosting    ODD#7     ODD#9     ODD#10     ODD#12    
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Social

Does the material come from companies known to respect the labor code ?

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Social

Is the equipment made by environmentally friendly companies ?

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Systems (software)

Is the size of the physical park in line with the number of virtual machines to be run ?

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Energy

Are servers / routers turned off when not in use ?

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Systems (software)

Is the allocated memory based on actual use ?

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Systems (software)

Is the number of CPU cores allocated based on actual use ?

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Systems (software)

Are unused cores disabled ?

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Systems (software)

Is the backup system incremental (disk optimization) ?

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Equipment (hardware)

Is high availability designed in a modular fashion ?

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Equipment (hardware)

Is provisioning / deprovisionning dynamic depending on the load ?

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Equipment (hardware)

Do storage solutions reduce the number of components (for example: high density SSD media) ?

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Hosting    ODD#7     ODD#9     ODD#12     ODD#17    
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Energy

Are the servers and technical equipment certified ?

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Systems (software)

Does the supplier display all of its indicators ?

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Equipment (hardware)

Is the end-of-life equipment recycled or upcycled (sale / donation / recycling, etc.) ?

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Energy

Does the electricity come from renewable energies ?

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Energy

Does the datacenter provide reliable information in terms of energy consumption ?

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Energy

Is the hosting company transparent about the carbon impact of the infrastructure and its usage for its customers ?

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Social

Are the suppliers selected on the basis of their ability to communicate the differentiating indicators ?

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Equipment (hardware)

Is the equipment repaired rather than replaced ?

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Equipment (hardware)

Does the construction / sheath / insulation materials used allow for better energy efficiency. Does the building meet HQE, rt2012 or equivalent standards ?

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Energy

Are carbon / water efficiency measurements available ?

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Social

Does the company provide reliable guarantees in terms of GDPR ?

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Social

Is all data subject to regulation (health, banking) secured on a server with a compatible level of security ?

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security

Is the datacenter at least Tier 3 ?

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security

Is the datacenter certification appropriate for the need and the geographic location (seismic, flooding) ?

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security

Do the processes put in place for the prevention of incidents take into account the non-degradability of servers and equipment ?

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Social

Is the environmental impact of implementing each function appropriate to its importance ?

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Social

Has each phase of the life cycle been identified with specific actions ?

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Social

Is data from previous studies available and kept up to date ?

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