Greengeeks.com - Hosting overview

Overview

GreenGeeks website is extremely compact, with all information you’d need is contained on the landing page, with more detailed hosting descriptions available in the plans themselves. The company has only 4 hosting solutions: Shared, VPS, reseller, and WordPress hosting. The "Lite" shared plan allows hosting of 1 website on 50GB of storage, Unlimited bandwidth, and databases. VPS has 2GB, 4 vCPU, 50GB of disk space, and 10TB bandwidth.

As the name suggests, the company is Eco-Friendly. The site is designed with quiet tones of green to signify that. Overall the functions are easy to navigate and do a good job to introduce a client. A knowledge base is available under the name of “support center” and has more than 20 articles, touching various hosting-related topics.

As stated on the site, the tech support department is online 24/7/365 and can be reached by phone, email, phone, or ticket. Phone support working hours are 9 AM to 12 AM EST. The average response for email is 15-20 minutes, while live chat is instantaneous. As usual, I’ve decided to test that out, using a live chat, and overall it took under 24 minutes to deal with all of my issues.

GreenGeeks is an eco-friendly company, so that means they are striving towards using renewable energy sources, and for every paid hosting, the company will plant one tree. All of the services use RAID-10 supported SSD drives and LiteSpeed web server with appropriate in-build caching addon for even faster load speeds. Free nightly backups are provided as well as DDoS protection and a Real-Time malware scanner. Support specialists proactively monitor your server 24/7 along with automatic security scans. With just one click you can integrate Cloudflare CDN network.

Uptime is promised to be 99.9%.

Softaculous is provided, allowing for an easy, one-click installation for CMS platforms, various plugins, and addons. VPS and WordPress hostings come fully managed. WordPress, in turn, has its own plan with heavy WP optimization and lots of performance features for it. The company only supports Unix-based OSs. Automatic WordPress migration can be performed if you wish to move to GreenGeeks, as well as automatic updates. GreenGeeks performs malware removal in case your website gets hacked. You can choose these locations: US, Europe, and Canada

You have complete access to SSH, Git, WP-CLI, SFTP and have the ability to create staging sites.

• GreeGeeks have both a reseller hosting and an affiliate program, allowing users to profit from advertising, promoting, or selling the company's services;
• Free cPanel and an SSL certificate;
• Free domain for 1st year of hosting;
• Developer friendly, having support for Perl, GIt, etc;
• Protected Email service.

GreenGeeks’ prices are just a tad above market average, with the per month payment for shared hosting being 10.95$. The refund period is active for 30 days after purchase. There are no setup fees or taxes. The payment can be made through a bank card only.