Going Green With Green Geeks Webhosting

Over the past couple of months, I have been quietly testing Green Geeks Webhosting and am quite impressed with the services they have to offer. In fact, I have moved all but two sites to my hosting account there.

Don't get me wrong, I don't have many complaints with Hostgator, but I've noticed over the last year or so that the sites I have on my Baby Croc account load really slow. I could find no good explanation for this and also noticed that many, many others have the same problem. The solution from Hostgator is of course to upgrade your account to a higher priced plan. This was an unacceptable answer to me. I did not want a reseller account with them.

So I looked elsewhere and found Green Geeks. They are slightly cheaper than Hostgator, but one of the things that appealed to me the most was the fact that they are completely powered by wind technology. So I signed up for an account and took advantage of their free site migration service. Which, by the way, I loved. It went completely smooth and I didn't have to lift a finger. Best of all, it was FREE! Something else that appealed to me was the fact that they do nightly backups. I know most providers offer this, but I can tell you from experience with Hostgator that what they say and what they do are two different things. I had to have them restore a site once and the backup was 3 days old. This is not the case with Green Geeks. They really do what they promise.

Once my sites were moved, I was amazed at the speed at which they loaded. When they were on Hostgator, they took a moment or two to load. On Green Geeks hosting, they now load pretty much instantly. What a difference! And I'm noticing that people are staying on the site longer as well. I would say that the site speed has something to do with that. I'm so impressed with it that I'll probably move this site over to their service as well. This blog loads extremely slow as well and I'm almost excited to see how much faster it will load over there.

Here are the features of their basic plan:

If you've been looking for another webhost to add to your portfolio, I would highly recommend Green Geeks. Whether you would like your sites to load quicker or you want some sites on a different IP or webhost, I think you will be highly satisfied with this company.