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GreenGeeks Hosting Review

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Overview:

GreenGeeks is well known as the "Environmental Hosting Option". They do a great job at doing well for the earth and most who use them are very satisfied. They have been doing business for 5 years.

Notable Features:

  • Inexpensive Shared Hosting Plan
  • Joomla One-Click Installer Fantastico
  • Unlimited Data Transfer and Space
  • User complaints about technical support
  • RAID 10 Storage

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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.

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Editor review

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9.0
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Price 
 
9.0
Reviewed by Steven Johnson on April 15, 2010

Excellent Green Hosting Company

About the Reviewer

Steven Johnson is a Joomla Professional and
has used GreenGeeks for more than 1 year.

Review Summary:

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.

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User reviews

Average user rating from: 9 user(s)

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7.2
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6.9  (9)
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5.9  (9)
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8.2  (9)
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Overview
Pros and Cons
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5.0
Reviewed by serra on May 22, 2011

Severely Disappointed

About the Reviewer

serra is a Joomla Intermediate User and
has used GreenGeeks for more than 1 year.

Pros and Cons

Pros
The "green" part is what drew me in. I guess I still believe in good faith that that is not a lie... unfortunately, the rest is cons.
Cons
Really bad customer service. I have honestly been shocked by the audacity. They won't let you poll the server every minute when checking for e-mail or they block your IP address. I had to call and get it unblocked at least 4 times before they suggested that I change the setting in my mail program.

Review

I'd like to caution anyone considering Green Geeks. There are plenty of hosts to choose from with reasonable technical stats, and if you are the type of person who occasionally makes a mistake or misunderstands something you'd be better off somewhere else. I have been hosting with them for almost 2 years at this point, and have called in about issues a handfull of times. Not once have I felt good when I got off the phone.

They boast outstanding customer service on their front page, but every phone call leads to an operator saying "I'm sorry, you'll have to fill out an online ticket. I can not help you over the phone." More than once, I've gotten really condescending answers to my tickets that were not even addressing the real issue. When I had a billing issue and didn't notice there was a problem for a couple of months, they refused to refund the months of service that I did not use.

I'll be leaving at the end of my 2 year prepaid term. Although the website has been running smoothly and the price is right, the stress of dealing with this company is not worth it.

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4.8
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1.0
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Reviewed by Diego Alvarez on March 28, 2011

A little disapointed

About the Reviewer

Diego Alvarez is a Joomla Professional and
has used GreenGeeks for more than 1 year.

Pros and Cons

Pros
great price
Cons
terrible support, all my websites are down with this provider, and the only response give me are: "There is some issue with the server you are on, techs are working on it. You can check the updates at : http://status.greengeeks.com/"

Review

Must be a better hosting provider out there!!

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3.3
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2.0
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5.0
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Reviewed by peter franklin on February 11, 2011

eye opener

About the Reviewer

peter franklin is a Joomla Intermediate User and
has used GreenGeeks for 3 months to 1 year.

Review

I moved to greengeeks because I was experiencing too much downtime with my previous hosting company. Now it seems that not everything is as they adertise! I run two moodle and one Joomla + coppermine picture gallery on my site. Now greengeeks are threatening to DELETE all of my resources, students work and pictures because as they state the class it as "file archiving". BEWARE, not all is as it seems! I am extremely dissapointed, harassed, and stressed over this situation, especially in view of the fact that they advertise all of these features namely namely content management systems like moodle, joomla, etc, and now it appears they are not happy with customers using these for their intended purpose!

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9.3
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Reviewed by www.myEZweb.net on December 12, 2010

GREEN hosting delivers on all promises

About the Reviewer

www.myEZweb.net is a Joomla Beginner and
has used GreenGeeks for 3 months to 1 year.

Pros and Cons

Pros
- FEATURES such as unlimited space, bandwidth, email accounts, MySQL databases
- Ruby, PHP, JOOMLA!, WordPress,.. script installers
- SUPPORT is local (US and Canada)
- RESELLER & AFFILIATE programs are available
- GREEN - energy efficient and wind powered
Cons
- No cons except maybe more or better tutorials for the newbies (that said, I (newbie) was able to figure it out without much trouble - my site is live and kicking ;) www.myezweb.net).

Review

Great features for the price $6.95 with 12 month contract. Payment is required at the beginning of the contract (industry standard). 3 year contract is available with the same features and attractive price of 4.95/month.
Excellent and reliable host - no problems here.

Note on "unlimited" space: you do get unlimited space but "Terms and Conditions" say if that feature is abused they reserve the right to limit your server space. I think this is for their own protection and if you plan to run, for example, online storage company on their servers.

Go GreenGeeks.com!!!!

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5.3
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Reviewed by Steve on October 01, 2010

Couldn't get started.

About the Reviewer

Steve is a Joomla Beginner and
has used GreenGeeks for A month or less.

Pros and Cons

Pros
Green energy is nice
Cons
Couldn't deliver on promises. No follow through. Confused and conflicted customer service feedback.

Review

I used joomla review to identify an alternative to Go Daddy! The live support proved easy to use and they promised me that if I signed up, they could migrate me in 2 days. I followed their instructions and waited to see my sight transfered. When it wasn't done on the second business day I sent an e-mail and waited. I got no response. On the 4th business day I tried live support again and was told that my e-mail response to the ticket on that second day meant I was back at the bottom of the cue but that they would see to it we were moved by the end of business. Nothing happened and the next morning I went back to live support. The same operator apologized again and said he would personally see to it. Since this was the 3rd promise of action, I was skeptical. A week had now gone by. I said 4 hours seemed to be enough time for action to happen and asked for results by 3:00 no communcation came until 3:30 when they said they needed info I'd already provided when opening the ticket. It was the first request I'd gotten at know time did any tech support person identify this as an issue (I have the "what's wrong" posts to prove it. I gave up since the incompetence factor was too high at that point. Migrators without the tech know how to DIY beware of false promises. It was really sad, wasted my time and I now have to start again while my Go Daddy sight lags still.

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Reviewed by Eddie S. on August 08, 2010

Great hosting service

About the Reviewer

Eddie S. is a Joomla Intermediate User and
has used GreenGeeks for 3 months to 1 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.

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Reviewed by andy on June 15, 2010

I like this company

About the Reviewer

andy is a Joomla Intermediate User and
has used GreenGeeks for 1 to 3 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.

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Reviewed by Carrey on May 21, 2010

Happy with GreenGeeks

About the Reviewer

Carrey is a Joomla Beginner and
has used GreenGeeks for 1 to 3 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.

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Reviewed by Joanna Weber on April 15, 2010

Great Host

About the Reviewer

Joanna Weber is a Joomla Beginner and
has used GreenGeeks for 1 to 3 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.

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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
Datacenter Locations:

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

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