Green Geeks

Editor Review:

Green Geeks is the world’s most eco friendly web hosting company, they are part of the US. EPA’s Green Power Partner program. Green Geeks, founded in 2006 by industry veteran Trey Gardner the company has seen terrific growth over the past three years. Green Geeks offers an incredible unlimited web hosting plan which allows customers to host an unlimited amount of their domains on unlimited space with unlimited bandwidth and databases. Customer support at Green Geeks is fast, friendly and dependable. Customer service is available 24x7x365 and is North American based so you will be speaking to an English speaking representative. In addition Green Geeks offers another level of service which is moving your web site files over to their servers for free, something few other web hosts offer.

Features:

Free Setup
99.9% UpTime Guarantee
FREE Domain Name FOR LIFE
UNLIMITED Disk Space
UNLIMITED Bandwidth
30 Day Money Back Guarantee

Summary:

Green Geeks is clearly a leader in web hosting and it is no wonder since Trey Gardner has assembled quite an impressive staff there. They run on excellent servers, never overload the servers so they run efficiently and the uptime is very reliable. They have excellent customer support and do things like move your web site files for free that other companies do not do. The feature list with Green Geeks is impressive and the value for your dollar is great. Add to that that the company is the leading Green Energy web hosting company and you have yourself a winner in anyone’s eyes.

Reliability:

Green Geeks has a 99.9% uptime guarantee and their servers excel at that uptime guarantee. Green Geeks uses energy efficient quad core intel processors with 4GB ram, RAID 10 storage arrays and 100Mpbs connectivity. All that technical jargon means their servers are some of the best in the industry and they processors are super fast and they have huge fast bandwidth connections. Every server is monitored 24x7x365 and they have 10 second pings to the server processors to look for spikes or incremental processor usage which allows Green Geeks administrators to be very proactive in preventing issues for the servers.

Price:

The price points at Green Geeks are more than affordable and the value for what you get is terrific. Green Geeks offers great service with great support for $6.95/mo on their 2 year plan and $7.95/mo on their 1 year plan. It is true that some companies offer their services for less but you also don’t get the great service with those plans like you do with Green Geeks. To pay a couple dollars more and have great 99.9% service with great support and tons of value added features, Green Geeks is clearly an incredible value for their investment.

Control Panel:

Green Geeks employs cPanel for their customers’ control panel usage. cPanel is the most widely used control panel in web hosting and it is arguable the easiest to use and most stable of all web hosting control panels. Green Geeks cPanel comes with the Fantastico script library which includes shopping carts, WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and so much more all with 1 click installations to clients’ accounts. Their cPanel also includes 2 additional free template web site builders which is great for novices to allow them to get their web sites up quickly and easily.

Customer Support:

Green Geeks customer support is available 24x7x365 by email and chat and they are available by phone from 9am to midnight EST Monday through Friday and 9am to 8pm EST Saturday and Sunday. Green Geeks support structure is one of the best we have seen, they have level 1, 2 and 3 support departments. This allows Green Geeks customer support teams focus on core issues and quickly escalate to the proper department issues which the team and the lower level does not work on. This structure and work flow allows the support teams to work through client issues quickly and efficiently. When you call Green Geeks you are calling North America and speaking with English customer service agents, they never outsource to overseas.