GreenGeeks Review

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GreenGeeks Review, Price & Deals

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GreenGeeks Web Hosting Review, Price & Deals

Pros

Free domain, Free site builder
30-day money-back guarantee
Free SSL, CDN, and Website Backups
Eco-friendly Hosting
Great customer support

Cons

Underpowered WordPress, VPS, and dedicated server plans
Does not provide Windows server hosting
Phone support isn't 24/7

GreenGeeks Specification
WordPress Hosting	Yes
Web Hosting	Yes
Reseller Hosting	Yes
VPS Hosting	Yes
Dedicated Servers	Yes
Website Builder	Yes
OpenCart Hosting	Yes

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GreenGeeks Review

Shop for web hosting and environmental concerns might not be high on your list of priorities, but it might be time to change. With more than eight million data centers around the world, they now account for 2% of the world's carbon emissions, roughly the same as the airline industry.

Luckily, it doesn't have to be that way. GreenGeeks Eco-Friendly Web Hosting Isn't Just 'Carbon Neutral', Company Explains, It's Effectively 'carbon-reducing': 'For Every Amperage, We Pull From The Grid, We Invest 3x As Renewable Energy' We do. Bonneville Environmental Foundation.'

Social responsibility is great, but hosting quality is also important, and GreenGeeks starts well with their shared plans.

Even the most basic Lite plan offers unlimited storage and bandwidth, one free website migration, one year of free domain registration, cPanel site management, Softaculous one-click installer, unlimited subdomains, free SSL, CDN integration, and five Comes with data options. Centers (two in the US, two in Canada, one in Amsterdam).

These are standard prices, so you won't have any unpleasant surprises when you renew. (HostGator's similar Hatchling plan can be $2.75 per month for the first three years, but that jumps to $6.95 later.

Support is available 24/7/365 via email and live chat, and the GreenGeeks call center is available from 9:00 a.m. to 12 p.m., seven days a week.

Upgrading to the GreenGeeks $5.95 per month Pro plan provides additional performance and support for hosting unlimited websites, while the $11.95 Premium plan bumps up the speeds even further and throws in premium SSL and a dedicated IP.

The GreenGeeks website does have a page on WordPress hosting, but it is an alternative way of marketing similar shared hosting plans. It's a good baseline product, but GreenGeeks doesn't offer the WordPress-optimized server caching, site staging or other advanced extras you'll find with specialist WordPress plans from providers like IONOS, Bluehost, and A2 Hosting.

The VPS plans are of excellent value, for example, a fully managed 2GB of RAM, 4 cores, 50GB storage, and 10TB bandwidth setup costs only $39.95 per month, billed monthly. (Like shared hosting, this is the standard fee, not the discounted price that will double or triple later).

However, there are barely any configuration options. No budget unmanaged hosting, no choice of distro or Windows hosting options, no storage or RAID options, not even a choice of data centers (this is the US only.) Hostwinds has similar prices but several There are more basic plans and are available in managed and unmanaged, Linux, and Windows types.

All shared and VPS hosting is protected by a 30-day money-back guarantee. There used to be a catch in the small print that only included cancellations due to the inability to provide satisfactory services, but this has now been removed: if you are unsatisfied with the service for any reason, you can ask for your money back.

GreenGeeks' dedicated servers seem a bit more expensive, even the entry-level dual-core Intel Atom model, with just 2GB of RAM, costs $169 a month. (And there's no option to order online - you're asked to contact the sales team to learn more).

This isn't necessarily a deal-breaker, though, especially if choosing green hosting is a top priority. It makes sense to use a low-power CPU; Investing in GreenGeeks renewable energy essentially means there are additional costs; And though the company can't match the power-hungry competition on price, it's not far off. If your sanity is more important than your money, the servers may be worth a look.

GreenGeeks Account setup

Signing up with GreenGeeks is straightforward. Choose your preferred plan, register a domain for free (or use one you already own) and enter your contact information to create an account. Choose a payment method (card and PayPal are supported), part with your cash, and wait for your account to activate.

The GreenGeeks site states that new accounts must go through an 'internal investigation' to detect fraudulent orders, and if these fail, they may need to be verified by telephone. However, this wasn't a problem for us, and within minutes of making a payment, GreenGeeks activated our account and sent us a welcome email with login details, a pointer to a getting started guide, and Other useful information.

GreenGeeks' web account console is straightforward and it's very easy to figure out what you're doing next. There's no scrolling through endless ads trying to persuade you to buy more stuff, as we've seen with some hosts; Instead, your new hosting plan is listed at the top of the page, and there are clear links to manage an account, launch cPanel, or open a support ticket. Even the greenest (joke) host of novices will quickly figure out what to do next.

GreenGeeks Creating a site

Launching cPanel from the GreenGeeks web dashboard opens up a full-featured cPanel setup that provides multiple ways to build and manage websites.

Access to Softaculous enables quick installation of WordPress, MediaWiki, Joomla, Drupal, and hundreds of other popular apps. There are more powerful auto-installers around - GoDaddy and Ionos use Installatron, which is packed with features - but Softaculous supports more apps, and has all the functionality most users will need.

GreenGeeks' cPanel gives users access to the SitePad website builder. Unusually, there isn't just one launcher; cPanel also displays thumbnails of site templates in the Sitepad Themes section. It's a nice touch that makes it easy for beginners to see at a glance what the SitePad can do.

Launching Sitepad gives you more templates, any of which can be customized in the capable drag and drop editor. Change the default text and images, add new page widgets (buttons, multimedia, social media links, maps, contact forms, and more) and you'll have a great site to go with.

Unlike some other hosts, GreenGeeks doesn't limit the number of pages or the size of your SitePad website and expects you to pay to upgrade. You can add as many pages, images, and other website elements as you want.

Further options include uploading your website files via FTP or adding them manually through a browser-based file manager.

Whichever way you build the site, GreenGeeks bundles an excellent cPanel to help you manage it. Our account had a standard installation with options to view server status, create email accounts, manage databases, control security, and everything else we've come to expect.

There are also one or two bonus options, including integration with the Cloudflare CDN. It doesn't do much - you'll still have to set up your account separately, you only get an icon that makes it easy to access your settings - but it's still a small time-saver, and we'll cover it. Happy to see the package.

If this sounds a bit too complicated or time-consuming, keep in mind that GreenGeeks also offers a free website migration. It probably isn't going to cover a huge web store, but if you have a simple static site or WordPress blog, tell GreenGeeks when you sign up, and the company should be able to move into your webspace without you having to. have to do anything. All.

GreenGeeks Performance

No matter how warm and comfortable you feel about GreenGeeks' environmentally conscious hosting, it should also be reliable. There is no point in having a website if it is not available when the visitors need it.

We use Uptime.com to monitor the availability of a test site over seven days. Every five minutes, Uptime downloads the main page of our site logs its success or failure, and server response times.

GreenGeeks managed 100% uptime on over 2,000 checks, without a single outage. We'd expect that on a short-term trial, but there's no guarantee. (Many hosts proudly claim they offer 99.9% uptime, and although that sounds cool, 0.1% downtime still translates to about 10 minutes a week.)

GreenGeeks response times averaged 292ms. Most shared hosting plans manage around 200-400ms, so GreenGeeks is somewhere in the middle of the pack. (Keep in mind that we're benchmarking GreenGeeks' cheapest hosting plans, though - upgrading can yield very different results.)

Consistency was the more attraction. GreenGeeks' highest logged response time was 939ms long, but only a few results above 500ms. Considering the price you are paying, most of the time hovers around 300ms, a pretty decent performance.

GreenGeeks Support

Whether you're a hosting newbie or an industry expert, everyone needs help sometimes, and we were interested to check out GreenGeeks' support options.

The website knowledgebase organizes its content into categories: 'domains', 'email', 'cPanel', and more. Novices can ignore most of these for now and use a Getting Started article to walk them through the main setup tasks, and more experienced users can dive into other topics as needed.

Entering keywords in the site search box usually yields some relevant articles. We tried phrases like 'import WordPress' and 'change PHP version' and useful articles appeared high on our matches list.

There isn't much depth here. For example, choose the cPanel section, and you can expect to see advice on the most important modules of cPanel. Instead, there are short articles on very specific tasks, which will not always be of interest to the average user. For example, the first screen would include 'Allowing remote MySQL access' and 'How do I change the DNS for MX, CNAME, and A records?' Titles like.

Still, the GreenGeeks support site probably has enough content to get your site up and running. After that, you can contact the support team via live chat, tickets, and email, and we've found its answers quick and helpful in the past.

GreenGeeks: Final Call

GreenGeeks' basic and low-powered product range is a concern, but the company's full-featured shared hosting plan is well priced, and a 300% power offset with renewable energy is a promise we haven't seen anywhere else. This can be a smart hosting option for eco-warriors everywhere.

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