GreenGeeks Review - It's "Green", But Does It Mean It's Good?
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Summary
GreenGeeks prides itself on environmentally friendly web hosting by offsetting 300% of the carbon from the energy they use. They also have a solid section of budget-friendly hosting plans, including WordPress optimized plans.
Pros
- Free Domain Name
- 100% Uptime
- Let’s Encrypt SSL & Cloudflare CDN
- Nightly Backups
- 24/7 Technical Support
Cons
- Verification time during sign-up (New account)
- Live Chat wait time (approx. >15min)
Best Affordable Web Hosting
Greengeeks was founded in 2008. Their header quarters is in Agoura Hills, Canada with a number of customers over 35k.
Greengeeks provides various hosting plans with good pricing and also that doesn’t mean they compromise in quality of service & support.
Comparing to SIteground and other hosting providers. Greengeeks offers the best pricing with the top niche quality service.
Services They Offer
- Web Hosting
- Reseller Hosting
- VPS Hosting
- Dedicated Servers
- CMS Hosting (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla)
Data Centers
When creating a hosting account, we can choose where our website is going to get hosted by selecting where our hosting account is provisioned. Greengeeks have data centers in Phoenix, Chicago, Toronto, Montreal and Amsterdam.
Customers will enjoy all of hosting platform benefits such as scaling, speed, security, and eco-friendly technologies regardless of which data center they choose.
About Speed
Greengeeks always implement best technologies, network architecture and software solution that will bring-up more increase in performance & speed.
Also, your hosting account completely resources scalable when needed to upgrade there is no need to update to a VPS or Dedicated servers. Greengeeks “Say goodbye to complicated Virtual Private Server upgrades”.
Our 30 Days Shared Hosting Test
The First graph shows Average Load Time: 2.7 Sec & Server Response: 0.241 Sec
The second graph shows the server load time & server response consistency in the 30days
Technologies They provide
- SSD HARD DRIVES (The Fastest Hardware) – Website files & databases are stored on cutting-edge solid state drives configured in a redundant RAID-10 storage array.
- LITESPEED & MARIADB (The Fastest Web & DB Servers) – Ultra-optimized web & database servers allow for blazing fast data read/write, serving pages up to 50 times faster.
- POWERCACHER (The Fastest App Load Times) – Customized in-house caching technology allows us to serve your favourite applications efficiently and reliably.
- FREE CDN (Fastest Load Times Worldwide) – Free CDN powered by CloudFlare allows you to cache content and serve it from servers closest to your visitors for faster web serving.
- HTTP/2 ENABLED (The Fastest In-Browser Load Times) – Enjoy the latest network protocol for significantly faster page loads in-browser. HTTP/2 requires encryption.
- PHP 7 ENABLED (The Fastest PHP Execution Times) – We were one of the first to adopt PHP 7. Enjoy faster PHP executions with PHP7 enabled on all servers.
Eco-Friendly
Greengeeks pride themselves as Environmentally Responsible Platform.
Greengeeks hosting platform has been designed with a maximum use, no waste of resources in mind. Every aspect of our hosting platform is built to be as energy efficient as possible.
Your website will be “carbon-reducing” when hosted on this platform. You can feel good that you’re helping make a difference by hosting on a platform that is eco-friendly.
PROS
- Free Domain Name
- 100% Uptime
- Let’s Encrypt SSL
- Cloudflare CDN
- Nightly Backups
- 24/7 Technical Support
- 30-day Money Back Guarantee
CONS
- Verification time during sign-up (New account)
- Live Chat wait time (approx. >15min)
Conclusion
Do we recommend to use Greengeeks, undoubtedly YES. Greengeeks is the most reliable web host and also has affordable pricing with such good performance and support.
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