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Our Verdict:
Overall: GreenGeeks plans come with common features such as a 1-click WordPress install, free email accounts, unlimited sub and parked domains, and a 30-day money-back guarantee. The server response time is 311ms with an uptime of 99.96%. GreenGeeks also offers a free website migration and in-house developed security features for maximum uptime and website protection. The company has 24/7 US-based customer support and a good control panel.
What is GreenGeeks?
GreenGeeks is a web hosting platform engineered for speed, security, and scalability while being an eco-friendly web hosting. They have 24/7 customer support offering various hosting plans from Shared hosting to Reseller hosting suitable for beginners to digital agencies. GreenGeeks prices are affordable to get started with modern features.
GreenGeeks Pros and Cons
GreenGeeks Pros:
- Fastest performance
- Free SSL, CDN & Email
- Fastest customer support
- Powerful tech stacks
GreenGeeks Cons:
- Increased renewal price
GreenGeeks Pricing
GreenGeeks pricing is straightforward, with three different shared hosting plans. There are also VPS and Reseller hosting plans. Here is a glimpse of all plan
- Shared hosting: Starts at $2.95 per month, renews at $9.95 per month.
- WordPress hosting: Starts at $2.95 per month, renews at $9.95 per month.
- VPS hosting: Starts at $39.95 per month, renews at $39.95 per month.
- Reseller hosting: Starts at $19.95 per month, renews at $29.95 per month.
All the plans come with the common features:
- 1-click WordPress install
- Drag and drop builder
- Free email accounts
- cPanel and Softaculous
- Unlimited sub and parked domains
- 30-day money-back guarantee.
GreenGeeks Performance Review
Server Response Time
The GreenGeek test site recorded an average server response time of 311ms. Their TTFB is blazing fast compared to many hosting providers like A2 Hosting, Kinsta, and WP Engine.
Uptime
The GreenGeeks site recorded an uptime of 99.96%. It's well within their uptime guarantee of 99.9%.
Load Testing
The GreenGeeks site recorded an average response time of 77ms for handling 500 simultaneous visitors.
Global TTFB
The GreenGeeks Global TTFB is 530ms. I tested the GreenGeeks site from 35 global locations.
Core Web Vitals
The GreenGeeks recorded a ‘Largest Contentful Paint' of 406ms, a ‘Total Blocking Time' of 0ms, and a ‘Cumulative Layout Shift' of 0. GreenGeeks can help sites to a large extent in delivering a great user experience.
GreenGeeks Features
1. Powerful Tech stacks
GreenGeeks utilizes the latest and innovative technologies like the ultra-fast LiteSpeed Web Server, LSCache, and MariaDB to fuel your site performance.
First, of its kind, GreenGeeks introduced “Scalable Computing Resources” to shared hosting. You can easily add RAM or CPU cores through this feature when there is a need for it.
I found this feature impressive, where I haven’t heard scaling resources on shared hosting is possible.
2. 100% US-based 24×7 support
We found GreenGeeks 24/7 US-based customer support to be good at solving issues. There are three ways to reach them either via chat, call, or email.
3. Unlimited web space, websites, Bandwidth
GreenGeeks runs its own data centers, thus it makes them offer high resources. The company offers unlimited SSD space, websites, and bandwidth on the Pro and Premium plan. The Lite starter plan also comes with an enormous 50GB space.
4. Free Website Migration
There are multiple hosting providers who stopped offering free migrations and charged hefty paid migrations. GreenGeeks, on the other hand, doesn’t charge a single penny for site migration.
5. In-house developed security
GreenGeeks is endowed with in-house developed security features to provide superior protection to your website. It uses container-based technology for the scalability and security of hosting accounts.
GreenGeeks ensures maximum uptime with redundant hardware along with continuous server monitoring. To safeguard your website from online threats, it offers real-time security scanning. GreenGeeks automatically updates your applications like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, etc.
With in-built spam protection, GreenGeeks helps reduce the amount of received spam. It offers nightly data backup to ensure your website data is safe from accidental erasure or hardware failure.
Conclusion: Do I recommend GreenGeeks?
GreenGeeks managed to satisfy me in all departments. They’ve got a great control panel, impressive performance and uptime, and 24/7 customer support that cares. On top of that, the pricing is so cheaper than their competitors.
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This GreenGeeks review is written with a focus on Performance, Uptime, features, and support. Check GreenGeeks in details at Hostingstep.com
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