Free Greenserver Initiative

Terms & Conditions

This offer and these Terms and Conditions govern the trading in of old servers by the customer in return for the lease of alternative energy efficient servers

  1. This offer is subject to status and is at the sole discretion of a VeryPC Director.
  2. This offer may be withdrawn by VeryPC at any time.
  3. This offer is subject to availability.
  4. Normal terms of trade as published on our website apply to this offer.
  5. The customer will offer up a number of used servers for ‘trade in’. In these terms such used servers are referred to as ‘Old Servers’
  6. The Old Servers must be on the VeryPC ‘Approved Servers for Trade In’ list,
  7. Old Servers on the ‘Approved Servers for Trade In’ list have had energy consumption figures compiled based on available information and measurement in a typical configuration.
    • Where possible this configuration has been chosen to be similar or slower than the stock configuration of VeryPC GreenServer nodes
    • Due to the large number of servers and variables we cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information to the customer’s exact product therefore it should be treated as a ‘fair estimate’
  8. The VeryPC Data Centre server ‘trade in’ is subject to your entering into a fixed term lease contract with our financier.
    • The term of the lease is agreed with your ‘VeryPC approved reseller’ sales representative but shall be no longer than 5 years.
  9. The monthly payments on the lease are based upon the typical average energy consumption over the term as calculated by VeryPC.
  10. VeryPC GreenServer are provided to the customer on a discrete CPU socket for discrete CPU socket basis for energy comparison and for calculating the number of servers to be delivered to the customer under the fixed term lease.
    • Note: As all old servers are less than quad core you will likely get a significant increase in processing power.
  11. Energy savings are calculated on a fixed monthly basis, based upon the following assumptions:
    • The ‘fair estimate’ (as detailed in paragraph 7 above) of the energy consumption of the Old Servers offered up for trade in.
    • All energy consumption measurements will be made at an estimate of 25% CPU utilization wherever possible.
    • Energy measurements in real power (watts) not apparent power (VA) as often mistakenly measured by 3rd parties.
    • The energy consumption measurements of stock VeryPC GreenServers as published by VeryPC under the energy star for servers program or otherwise.
    • Electricity costs at the standard fixed rate (3 years or greater) as currently published by British Gas or a major national energy provider nominated by VeryPC.
    • Servers are assumed to operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year at a room temperature of 20 degrees centigrade Climate change levy calculated at 0.5p per KWh as a 4 year estimated mean.
    • Carbon Dioxide emissions at 0.537KG per KWh
    • Cost of Carbon emissions, estimated at £26 per tonne for a 4 year estimated mean.
  12. VeryPC GreenServer are provided at ‘stock’ specification and any upgrades need to be purchased or agreed separately.
  13. The customer agrees to permanently transfer ownership of the ‘Old Servers’ (free from any restriction or finance due) to VeryPC within 90 days of receiving the VeryPC GreenServers.
    • The Old Servers must be provided in a working condition and suitably packed for shipping.
  14. Old Servers shall not be declared as waste by the customer
  15. Old Servers shall be either reused or be recycled by VeryPC under the requirements of the WEEE directive.