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Support is amazing. Server performance is much much better. choice of Canadian data centres. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The pricing is kind of pricier than other web hosting companies, but their service makes up for the price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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97% of the time, the hosting worked OK, uses standard cpanel install Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
- Sites would experience unexpected downtime and crashes.
- Despite selling "wordpress" plans, they refuse to support database errors even if you hadn't touched your sites for months and it's clear the problem is on their end.
- The biggest shafting is what you get at the very end when your term is up. Price goes up 3.5x what you originally paid 3 years ago AND THEY DISABLE BACKUPS, keeping you from leaving. They claim "unlimited storage" for the service but concocted a rule that said backups are disabled over 10GB and refused to enable it. And my account was below 8GB!
They are shady and conniving enough to motivate me to write this long rant. Stay away. These guys aren't even good at business. Their dirty tactics motivated me to write this review AND it will cost them way more to acquire a new customer than to sign an old one up at a discounted rate. Good riddance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Their shared hosting is fast when compared to some of the traditional ones.
Their customer support is excellent, and their dashboard makes it easy to use and implement.
They also have one of the high-paid affiliate programs in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
They do provide some great offers when we are starting, but their price increases after using it for the initial years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I love their excellent customer support, never experienced a long wait. Their reliable uptime is also a great benefit for me. Their dashboard and other interfaces are super easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
They need to offer more plans specificly for high-demand hosting needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
GreenGeeks is a reliable host. If you're just starting out with your website, you can get a reliable host for a great price. There customer support is amazing and I have not had any issues in the past. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
If you're scaling, suddenly the amount you have to pay is going to be very high. And you can get a higher plan from a better service provider such as Cloudways. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Customer service is always incredibly quick. They've even solved issues I had with my website in the middle of the night! They are also as eco-friendly as possible, which I love. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I don't dislike anything about GreenGeeks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
At first, I liked Green Geeks and did not have much to complain about. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I found that when I needed assistance, I was provided with a link to an article to read and fix the issue by myself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
They have a good solid support, online chat as well as phone support that you can contact at all hours. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
They no longer have a managed VPS solution. They recently removed it. It was not all their fault, based on the price changes by cpanel which is 3rd party server management software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The hosting is fast. Every time I have needed support I have received nearly instant response from the chat agent.
The bandwith and resource allocation work great for most sites using wordpress and drupal.
Email setup through cpanel works great and is really nice to have unlimited storage on the primary domain on my reseller account. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The firewall and IP blocking rules are a little strict for shared and reseller hosting. One of my clients needed to access their web app simultaneously with about 12-15 users. There was no performance issues with the hosting, but the firewall kept blocking their ip address. Greengeeks was not able to lift this rule for this client on reseller hosting.
I noticed that on the new plans for reseller hosting they have changed from limited storage space and unlimited cpanel accounts to a new model. The new model allows for unlimited storage space but the plan pricing is based on number of cpanel accounts. I don't forsee any issues with this model for things like prototyping, but I believe it will increase costs for the reseller as new clients come on board. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The support personnel at Green Geeks is extraordinary! Most marketers I know don't really want to completely comprehend the ins and outs of setting up a VPS Server, adding Cnames and redirecting domains, etc. We have other things to do. I was really confused when I was told that the mass emailer software I just purchased needed a VPS. A V what?? Support at GreenGeeks helped me with every detail, every step to ensure I had a quality, stable server for my mailer. They couldn't have been more professional, kind, and patient with me. And when I wanted to expand my hosting needs for a website, that was already covered under the monthly fee I was paying. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
This may seem trivial, but when time matters (and we all know it does), I had to search high and low on Green Geeks website for the Sign up/ Sign in links. I finally just googled "Green Geeks signup page." I mean, come on web designers...if you lose a customer or two to a competitor because you make it too difficult to locate the most important step to access your services, then I think it's your own darn fault ;). That's why I chose an 8 instead of a 10. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
