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GreenGeeks Hosting Review

9.3
Editor Rating
9.5
User Rating
GreenGeeks Hosting Review

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Hosting Plan Features

Disk Space: Unlimited
Data Transfer: Unlimited
Refund Policy: 30 Day
Domain Registration: Free
Price: $4.95
Control Panel: cPanel
Hosting Plan Types: Shared HostingBudget HostingReseller HostingGreen Hosting
Datacenter Locations: United States

Joomla Features

Joomla Auto Install: Yes
Fantastico: Yes
Ion Cube Support: Yes

MySQL Features

MySQL Databases: Unlimited
phpMyAdmin: Yes

Support Options

Email / Help Desk: Yes
Phone Support: Yes
Member Forum: No
Live Chat: Yes

Company Details

Company Headquarters: Santa Monica, CA
First Year in Business: 2006

Deals and Coupons

Coupons: JOOMLA25
Use Coupon:  www.greengeeks.com 

About GreenGeeks

Founded in 2006, GreenGeeks is considered to be the #1 green energy web hosting provider in the world. Their commitment to being green has earned them respect throughout the industry. GreenGeeks replaces 3 times the energy used with wind power.

The company is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA while the servers are located in Chicago, IL in Green Grid Datacenter.

Plans & Features

The Eco Site Plan by GreenGeeks for only $6.95 per month offers customers just about everything they need to get their web site online. You can be sure to receive unlimited disk space, unlimited data transfer, e-mail addresses, MySQL databases, free domain for life, free site builder and hundreds of more features.  Sign up for a 3 year term and the rate drops to $4.95/month.

Hosting Environment

In it's commitment to be a green web hosting provider, GreenGeeks utilizes latest generation Intel Quad Core Xeon processors that are energy efficient. The very powerful servers that draw less power also come with a very fast storage array powered by RAID-10. This is to ensure maximum performance and reliability from the storage system.

Joomla and GreenGeeks

GreenGeeks comes with an auto-installer for Joomla. Joomla runs on the infrastructure with no issues.

Technical Support

GreenGeeks comes with 24/7 technical support via e-mail helpdesk, live chat and telephone.

Phone

  • 1-877-326-7483 ext 1 (sales department)
  • 1-877-326-7483 ext 3 (support department)
  • Monday to Friday - 9:00 AM to Midnight EST
  • Saturday and Sunday - 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM EST

Email

  • Sales: sales at greengeeks.com (24x7x365)
  • Support: support at greengeeks.com (24x7x365)

They also have a large knowledgebase that's growing every day along with other help tutorials.

Conclusion

Greengeeks is a great Joomla web host. Their management team brings over 10 years of experience with it and that has played an important role in their success in this competitive industry.

Visit http://www.greengeeks.com for more details.


Editor Review

GreenGeeks: 9.3 out of 10
Excellent Green Hosting Company

Overall rating: 
 
9.3
Site Speed & Uptime:
 
9.0
Control Panel Features:
 
9.0
Customer Support:
 
10.0
Price:
 
9.0
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Reviewed on April 15, 2010
 

Overview

Describe Yourself: Joomla Professional
How long have you used this host: Three months-to-one year
Overview: Very happy with our GreenGeeks account over the past 9 months. Good Communication on scheduled maintenance. Servers have been fast and consistent.

Pros and Cons

Pros Green Hosting -- Good for the earth
Competitive price for green hosting
Good Communication
USA Based Tech support
Cons Currently no Dedicated Server or VPS Hosting Plans

Review

We were not sure what to expect from GreenGeeks when we signed up for an account to review their services. GreenGeeks was a relatively new hosting company when compared to those established in the 90s. We were wondering:

* Would the sign up be complicated?
* Would the servers be easy to work with & run Joomla well?
* How helpful would the tech support be?
* Is the company really dedicated to using green energy?

We are happy to report that the sign up was easy and straight forward, Joomla was easy to install and configure, there were a few server issues but tech support was able to correct them and GreenGeeks is dedicated to the Green movement.

GreenGeeks was found by Trey Gardener who has over 10 years in the hosting industry. The company & tech support is based in Chicago making them easy to contact (phone, chat & email).

The server that hosted our Joomla site had a hardware failure three months after signing up. The site was down for a day or so which is not good but the communication from GreenGeeks was timely and informative. They kept us in the loop and showed how they learned from the process.

Since then server down time has been kept to a minimum. We are notified via email of any scheduled maintenance. All servers have problems, it was nice to see that GreenGeeks was able to learn from a bad situation.

With GreenGeeks we really like:

* They run cPanel Servers
* Phone and Chat for tech support
* Interest and involvment with the Green movement

If you are looking for a new Joomla Hosting company and want to go with a Green company, it is worth checking out GreenGeeks.
 
 

Visit http://www.greengeeks.com for more details.


User Reviews

Average user rating from: 4 user(s)

Overall rating: 
 
9.5
Site Speed & Uptime:
 
9.8   (4)
Control Panel Features:
 
9.3   (4)
Customer Support:
 
9.8   (4)
Price:
 
9.3   (4)
 
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Great hosting service

Overall rating: 
 
9.5
Site Speed & Uptime:
 
10.0
Control Panel Features:
 
9.0
Customer Support:
 
10.0
Price:
 
9.0
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Reviewed by Eddie S.
August 08, 2010
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Overview

Describe Yourself: Joomla Intermediate User
How long have you used this host: Three months-to-one year

Pros and Cons

Pros Easy to sign up
Affordable rate
Installation of Joomla is made easy with Softaculous
Cons Can't register for longer with more discount

Review

I've been with this company for a few months now and am happy to say the service has been exceptional. Great offer with great service. Definitely a powerful Joomla host form what I can tell.

 

I like this company

Overall rating: 
 
10.0
Site Speed & Uptime:
 
10.0
Control Panel Features:
 
10.0
Customer Support:
 
10.0
Price:
 
10.0
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Reviewed by andy
June 15, 2010
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Overview

Describe Yourself: Joomla Intermediate User
How long have you used this host: One-to-three months

Review

I have been using this host for the last couple of months and they have been awesome. My site loads fast without any uptime problems and their customer support have always been quick to help me with some small issues I've had.

 

Happy with GreenGeeks

Overall rating: 
 
9.0
Site Speed & Uptime:
 
9.0
Control Panel Features:
 
9.0
Customer Support:
 
9.0
Price:
 
9.0
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Reviewed by Carrey
May 21, 2010
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Overview

Describe Yourself: Joomla Beginner
How long have you used this host: One-to-three months

Pros and Cons

Pros Good Service
Like they help with other Green programs

Review

Been with GreenGeeks for a little while now and have been very happy with the service.

My site has performed well and glad I went with GreenGeeks.

Would Recommend.

 

Great Host

Overall rating: 
 
9.5
Site Speed & Uptime:
 
10.0
Control Panel Features:
 
9.0
Customer Support:
 
10.0
Price:
 
9.0
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Reviewed by Joanna Weber
April 15, 2010
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Overview

Describe Yourself: Joomla Beginner
How long have you used this host: One-to-three months

Pros and Cons

Pros Easy to setup Joomla
Easy to contact support. Always there and very fast to respond.
Uptime and performance is good
Cons Price is a bit on the heavy side compared to other hosts, but worth it.

Review

Decided to go with GreenGeeks after reading about them on several sites and being recommended to go with them. Moving my Joomla site over was easy because of the fact that they offer a site migration service. There guys did all of the work for me. All I had to do was sign up, this was a time saver. The green part is very attractive to me, because I am a big green geek myself, it's definitely a plus to be with them on that part. Simply put, alright price, but worth every penny.

 
 

Learn more about GreenGeeks here.

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