Green Geeks Hosting
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Green Geeks Overview:
Green Geeks is one of the best new web hosts to come out within the last few years. They have been in business since 2006 but their owner, Trey Gardner has been in the web hosting industry for over 10 years and he is regarded as one of the most seasoned and capable web hosting owners around today. Trey’s experience has helped him shape a web hosting service that is truly best in the industry.
Green Geeks boasts numerous industry best awards and with good reason. They have a terrific web hosting plan that comes with tons of bonus features like 2 free template based web site builders, a free domain, all the fantastico scripts, unlimited space and bandwidth with the ability to host an unlimited amount of domains and emails and they are the most eco-friendly web hosting service around. Customer service is exceptional with 24×7x365 coverage by chats and emails and phones available from 8am EST to midnight EST. You will also find them one of the most reliable web hosting companies on the internet.
Price to Value:
Green Geeks price is on par with some of the lowest in the industry. They have a no gimmick price of $7.95/mo for the annual package and $6.95/mo for their 2 year package, they also have a month to month package that is very reasonable. Both the annual and 2yr plans have free domains name and no setup charges, they also do not upsell or charge you extra for anything that they offer like some other web hosts do.
The price to value here is easy to see. You get cool things all added into the package at one rate like the shopping carts, Wordpress blogs, Drupal and Joomla CMS, photo galleries, wiki’s, forums, customer support scripts, project management scripts and so much more. When looking at value you should also consider that for everyone of the sites that they host they put back into the grid 3 times as much energy as those sites have used with that energy they put back in having been produced by wind and solar, talk about value add.
Performance and uptime:
Reliable and stable are the terms you hear when you talk with a Green Geeks customer. Servers have a guarantee 99.9% uptime and they are super fast. Test sites and customer sites we have seen load quick no matter what kind of connection you have. This is because Green Geeks invests in only the highest quality web servers and data center. Their data center is an award winning world class facility with raised floor, SAS 70 Type 1 certified, dual city power feeds with automated power switch to battery and on site diesel generator in the event of an emergency, it is a remarkable facility.
In addition Green Geeks purchases only top of the line energy efficient Intel servers with Quad core xeon processors. They use RAID 10 storage arrays for maximum performance and redundancy with 100Mbps connections to the switches. Talk about fast. In addition Green Geeks manages their servers differently, making sure that they never overload a server so that the disk space never runs out on their servers, a problem other hosts face when they overload their server drives and cause those other host’s servers to crash. Green Geeks employs server administrators around the clock and monitor their servers 24×7x365. In addition they have a script that monitors all of the services on those servers pinging them every 10 seconds to let them know that everything is working fine or if there are an developing hot spots which allows them to be very proactive with their service.
Customer Service:
Green Geeks customer service is available 24×7x365 by emails and chats and they are available by phone 8am EST to 3am EST. The customer service agents at Green Geeks service their shared and reseller hosting plans as well as their dedicated customers. Support personnel are smart, friendly and they are quick in resolving any technical questions we may have had.
In addition to the great tech support personnel Green Geeks has built out a terrific knowledgebase section with over 200 articles for sales, billing and support. They are continuously adding how to (step by step) articles from what we have seen that really helps novice webmasters learn how to do something like setup an email or create a new web site with one of their 5 web site builder programs. An additional cool support feature that Green Geeks offers is that they will move your web site files over to their service for free, so if you are a novice or are unsure about moving your web site files yourself they will do it for you – talk about service!
Customer Reviews:
Green Geeks has only been around since 2006 so they don’t have 10+ years going back for reviews but they do have reviews out there on many sites and people who have emailed us about their service really think this is a great company. We’ve hardly found anyone who says anything bad about them and usually we have found that those people had mistakenly signed up with Green Geeks expecting a niche type of web hosting like ASP hosting which is specialized and is not something that most people would need. People seem to think that their support is fast and friendly and the server speeds are very fast. We continue to look for negativity in the marketplace regarding Green Geeks but we just don’t see it.
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