Michael Blaha at Organic Arts told me last week that my favorite web hosting company, Tiger Technologies, is carbon neutral.

See their environmental policy for more.

Tiger Technologies is a web hosting company based in Berkeley, California.

I’ve used them for all my own web sites and the vast majority of my client web sites (dozens) for over three years now.

New clients often ask me “Why TigerTech in California when you/we are here in the Upper Midwest?”

• They’ve been super reliable, with nary any downtime in three years.
• The internet routing (connection speed and latency) between Northfield, MN (where I am) and their server farm in the Bay area of California has always seemed to be faster than to server farms in the Twin Cities.
• They’re always cost-competitive.
• They’re big enough to have all the sever bells and whistles I need in a web host. (As of a year ago, they were hosting over 3,500 sites.)
• They’re very smart. I know some very knowlegeable geeks who are very impressed with them.
• They’re very personable. These people know how to convey friendliness, both via phone and email. I’m pretty clueless on server-related techie stuff and I’m never made to feel like a doofus.
• They are extremely responsive, both via phone and email, even on weekends and evenings.

Robert, Nicholas, Nami, and the rest of the team: I think of you as colleagues, not just staffers at a company who’s a provider/supplier. You’re the best.