Our Review of: GreenGeeks

Overview:

A hot newcomer to our list, GreenGeeks web hosting! Featured in PC World magazine and founded in 2006, with offices in Los Angeles, CA, GreenGeeks offers a very unique web hosting experience. They pride themselves in being the leader in "green" web hosting, or being environmentally friendly. At 300% green, they're carbon negative, not just neutral, which is what the majority of the "green" hosting companies can claim. Their energy efficient and powerful Dual Intel Quad Core Nehalam processor servers are 100% powered by wind-energy.

Although they're a newer host, they maintain over 60,000 web sites, which makes them a medium sized hosting company. Also, don't be fooled into believing that because they're "green" that this affects their hosting speed and performance, which is entirely not the case. In fact, we rated their server speeds among the best we've tested among hosts thus far...

Pros:

• Completely "Green" Web Hosting.
• Latest and very powerful server hosting equipment.
• They support many charitable foundations.

Cons:

• A little more pricey, but well worth the added cost.

Features & Specials:

Not only do they offer cutting-edge "green" web hosting services, but they do so at an unbelievably low price of only $3.95/mo. Their plan offers abundant storage and transfer allowances for nearly all small to medium sized sites. You also receive a free domain for life, can host unlimited domains on each account and they offer a unique "site migration" service for new web site transfers, in which they will move your old site to their servers and help get everything setup, free of charge.

Features aren't lacking either, with everything you would expect from much more expensive hosting. 1-click installs of Wordpress, Joomla, site builder software, all the popular shopping cart software and most of the popular scripting languages are also supported. Each new account also receives free marketing and search engine credits.

Reliability & Speed:

Reliability is top priority at GreenGeeks. Their 100% wind-powered Dual Intel Quad Core Nehalam servers are among the best and fastest in the industry and connected to the Internet backbone via OC-12 connections. They also tout that everything is monitored on 10 second intervals and offer nightly backups of all your data.

Also, being that your data is stored and mirrored on multiple hard drives, means you get an extra layer of protection, in case of failure. Their MySQL optimized backend, means your databases will also run quickly and efficiently. You can also choose between multiple US based datacenters, to host your account and provide the fastest page load times to your customers.

Support:

Among the fastest chat support we've received, we had support within 6-seconds via online chat. GreenGeeks also offers toll-free support via their english speaking support centers in Los Angeles, Chicago and Toronto.

They also have the e-mail trouble ticket system, which we find is the best way to solve technical issues, since everything is documented. For those who have a little experience, they have a well documented article database, to get the most common issues resolved. In the end, we think GreenGeeks support is among the top in the industry.

Average Support Wait Times:

Chat Wait Time 6 seconds

Phone Wait Time 2 minutes

Control Panel:

GreenGeeks employs the industry famous cPanel control panel software. We found it easy to use for average users. You control nearly every aspect of your account from the Control Panel, from setting up your domain and e-mail accounts, to making tweaks to your databases via phpmyadmin, so it might get a little intimidating for novice users, but with a little practice it should be a snap.

What sets them apart?

Summary:

With all this said, after a thorough review of GreenGeeks services, we feel they deserve a prominent spot on our Top 10 list. Also, the fact that they're technically the most environmentally conscience web hosting provider we have tested, gives us extra assurance that they are experienced and will provide an outstanding service for years to come.

Lastly, they have also won many web hosting awards during their short existence, along with being featured in prominent venues, such as PC World magazine and an EPA Green Power Partner. Check them out today, to see for yourself how they stand out from the rest of the "average" web hosts and give their outstanding hosting service a try...

GreenGeeks Ratings ChartScore: 8.8%