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Green Geeks

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28.05.2018

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Overall Impression

Support - 85%

Performance - 67%

Stability - 89%

Price - 90%

Summary

A good hosting provider with a well known brand, prices are good all over all products.

82%

Host Information
Name	GreenGeeks
Website	greengeeks.com
Founded	2008
Support Email	-
Support Phone	1-877-326-7483

Advantages	Disadvantages
Host unlimited domains	Free domain only for the first year
Free site migration

Green Geeks Review

As their name suggests, GreenGeeks pride themselves with their environmentally friendly web hosting.
Fun fact: GreenGeeks is an EPA Green Power Partner that delivers strong eco-friendly ‘’green’’ operations with no sacrifice of performance & quality. Instead, GreenGeeks focus on high technology performance.
In addition, they have simple guidance for those who are new to the web hosting business. You can read guides on their sites on how to create your first website, how to promote it, and how to become successful online.

Green Geeks Background

Founded in 2008 by Trey Gardner, GreenGeeks nowadays hosts over 300,000 websites with data centers in the U.S. & Canada.
Trey has worked with eight different web hosting companies, including iPowerweb, iPage, StartLogic, Dot5Hosting, Globat, Lunarpages, Hostpapa and now GreenGeeks.

Key Green Geeks Benefits

Strong 99.92% Uptime – Our analysis show that they have an average uptime of 99.92% during the testing period. For comparison, the average industry standard is 99.94%.
Also, GreenGeeks have a good performance – their pages load almost 40% faster than their competitors.
Good Support – overall fast & competent support. Their support staff may not be native English speakers, though.
In addition, this hosting company offers a free domain name & website migration. In case you get your domain name through them, they will keep it free for as long as you use their services. If your website is already hosted elsewhere, they can help you migrate your website to their servers for free.
Environmentally friendly – over the eight years in the business, they’ve replace over 615,000+kilowatt’s a year.
Money Back Guarantee – in case you’re unhappy with your services, they offer a full 30-day, ‘no-questions-asked’ money back guarantee on most web hosting plans.

Hosting Features of Green Geeks

With the basic shared hosting plan, you’ll get a lot of things:
Unlimited server resources, unlimited bandwidth, MySQL database creation, email account creation, free Cloudfare CDN, unlimited domains for 1 account, free marketing & SEO tools.
In addition, they have other awesome hosting features :
Speed technologies – LiteSpeedm web servers SSD hard drives, MariaDB, PHP7, CDN, HTTP/2. It’s really, really important for your website to be fast in 2018. In case your site loads or more than 2 seconds, you are losing customers. Internet customers become really impatient with sites that load slower than these top performers. Google’s recommendations on speed – no more than 2 – 3 seconds. Not to mention it’s a ranking factor.
You can also receive WordPress hosting, which has some awesome features: unlimited SSD web space & data center, free 1-click WordPress install, free WordPress enhanced security, WP-CLI, SSH, Git, Custom PHPH.ini & more, free Let’s Encrypt wildcard SSL, free WordPress migration, free Cloudflare CDN integration, 30 day money back guarantee.

Control Panel & Usability

GreenGeeks offers the industry-standard cPanel, with some enhanced features for additional $3.95 per month. The additional features include: unlimited web space & data transfer, free cPanel account migration, cPanel optimized servers, free enhanced security, 99.9% service uptime, free 1-click app installer, free domain name registration or transfer, free blazing fast SSD RAID-10 storage, 24/7/365 US-based support, a standard 30 day money back guarantee.

Data Security and Backups

GreenGeeks offers nightly automated backups, which is a really awesome featured, especially for the shared hosting plans. Of course, there are a few hosting companies which do offer free backups, but in general, this is not a rule. This is why this cool feature need highlighting there.

Hosting for WordPress

Their WordPress hosting is basically the same as their shared hosting plan. It’s specifically enhanced for WordPress. Of course, a free domain is also offered. The signup process is easy.
An important thing: your account must not use more than 100 percent of 1 CPU core and or 1GB memory, or 20 concurrent connections or 75,0000 files or you will risk account termination. In case a due invoice is not paid within four days, your account will be suspended and you will need to pay a reactivation fee of $15. No upsells, the account activation is quick. There’s also a 1-click install tool to easily install popular apps and CMSs.

Shared Hosting

GreenGeeks has only one shared hosting plan. It costs $3.95. It features unlimited web space, unlimited data transfer, support for unlimited domains names, unlimited email accounts and MySWL databases. This plan also includes a free domain name and free nightly backups. The good news: it is powered by RAID-10 SSD storage for performance.

Customer Support

You can reach customer support staff via live chat, email ,or phone. In fact, phon support is only available during business hours, but you can chat with them 24/7/365.
Also, there is a large knowledgebase and a detailed tutorial section that will help you resolve your technical issues on your own. In case you’re looking to grow your site and learn more about the marketing & SEO industry, this is your place. Reading the blog thoroughly is definitely worth your time.

Green Geeks FAQs

How does the reseller hosting work?

After signing up for a reseller hosting account with GreenGeeks, you will receive the login information for your account called Web Host Manager(WHM). It allows to manage and provide your customers with their own end-user control panel. From here, you can manage e-mails, web site files, statistics, domain names, etc. Also, there are five different packages.

Do GreenGeeks have any trial period hosting?

They offer a standard 30 money back guarantee trial period. If you decide to cancel within the money back guarantee period of 30 days, the company will provide you with a full refund. Also, you will own your domain after you cancel, with or without GreenGeeks as the hosting provider.