GreenGeeks Review—The Eco-Friendly Hosting Company

If you think that website hosting is a “clean” industry, think again. Data centers devour massive amounts of power. The German conglomerate Siemens claims that “a single data center can consume more energy than a mid-sized town.” In 2016, British online newspaper The Independent reported that “data centers have mushroomed from virtually nothing 10 years ago to consuming about 3% of the global electricity supply and accounting for about 2% of total greenhouse gas emissions.”

As global climate change intensifies, our world needs responsible environmental stewardship. Privately-owned GreenGeeks.com, based in southern California, was established in 2008 to reverse the web hosting industry’s harmful impact on the environment.

Powered 300% by renewable energy, GreenGeeks replaces 3x the energy it consumes with wind power credits. GreenGeeks is a U.S. EPA Green Power Partner, recognized for “support(ing) the development of new renewable generation capacity nationwide while also helping to protect the environment.”

Beyond eco-friendly web hosting, GreenGeeks guarantees 99.9% uptime, competitive pricing, knowledgeable customer support, and a wide range of hosting solutions.

Summary of GreenGeeks’ Features

Operating from five data centers located in North America and Europe and hosting over 500K websites, GreenGeeks built its reputation as a green hosting leader by delivering reliable performance and service to its customers.

What drives web hosting is the quality of the servers the company uses. GreenGeeks’ data centers deploy the latest energy-efficient servers supported by SSD (not HDD) storage drives, quad-core processors, and accelerated RAID-10 data storage virtualization technology for unsurpassed redundancy and optimum performance.

Specifically, the company utilizes LiteSpeed servers, which consistently outperform other Linux-based web servers (like Apache), and MariaDB, a faster derivative of the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS).

GreenGeeks’ hosting plans offer customers many features at no extra cost, including:

• SSL certificates (to safeguard all your first-level domains); premium SSL is also available
• domain registration
• unlimited email accounts (with a free Spam Assassin filter)
• Cloudflare content delivery network (CDN) integration (accelerates server connectivity speeds over distance)
• nightly backups
• shopping cart installation
• website migration

All of the above is free. In particular, if you’re moving your website from an existing web host to GreenGeeks and your tech skills are limited, the free site transfer is a welcome peace of mind.

Like most Linux-based web hosts, GreenGeeks provides the cPanel control portal to customers. Take advantage of cPanel script installers like Fantastico and Softaculous—tools used to install content management systems (CMSs) like WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla.

Strong customer support is vital to the reputation of any web host provider. GreenGeeks excels in this area, offering customers multiple methods of contact. Email and live chat are available 24/7. If you need to speak to a tech, phone support is open from 9 AM – midnight EST M-F and 9 AM – 8 PM EST on weekends.

Customers can also avail themselves of GreenGeeks’ online Help Center. It provides a searchable knowledgebase and FAQs to troubleshoot typical web hosting issues. GreenGeeks also offers numerous tutorials, insightful articles, and descriptive videos so users can educate themselves on web hosting specifics.

For advanced web developers, GreenGeeks offers multiple PHP versions and Python and Perl support as well as tools like Git, Drush, WP-CLI, and more.

GreenGeeks Hosting Plans

Choose from a variety of web hosting packages, including VPS (both managed and self-managed), shared hosting, application hosting (think WordPress), and reseller hosting. For enterprise-scale customers, GreenGeeks also hosts a dedicated server for their needs.

GreenGeeks offers three shared hosting plans.

…, as well as three, managed VPS packages.

In Sum

Besides setting an environmentally responsible standard for competitors to follow, GreenGeeks delivers speedy page response times and flexible applications with 99.9% uptime via its robust web servers. The provider offers 24/7 customer support, competitive pricing, and an unconditional 30-day money-back guarantee.