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GreenGeeks
Eco-conscious hosting
GreenGeeks matches three times the energy your site consumes with renewable energy credits, while delivering modern LiteSpeed-powered shared and reseller hosting that competes with mainstream brands on performance.
Where GreenGeeks actually fits
GreenGeeks is best understood as a shared host built for sustainability-minded sites, small businesses. Plans start at $2.95/mo and are backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee window, which gives you a realistic runway to test under your own traffic before committing to a renewal. Support is handled via 24/7 chat, ticket and phone — a detail that matters far more once something breaks at 2 a.m. than it does on the day you sign up.
On performance, our composite Perf Index puts GreenGeeks at 78/100 across 4 data-center regions. Readiness for modern workloads breaks down as limited for SaaS and not suitable for AI-adjacent workloads — numbers we re-check quarterly rather than inherit from a brochure.
Our take: The strongest sustainability story without performance trade-offs.
The specs that matter
- Uptime
- 99.9%+
- Support
- 24/7 chat, ticket and phone
- Refund window
- 30-day money-back guarantee
- Starts at
- $2.95/mo
- Perf Index
- 78/100
- Data center regions
- 4
- SaaS-ready
- Limited
- AI workload-ready
- Not suitable
Perf Index is Hostilo’s composite of TTFB, sustained uptime, and median support response — scored 0–100. See our methodology for the full weighting.
- 3x renewable energy match
- LiteSpeed servers
- Free CDN included
- Solid mainstream features
- Renewal pricing increases
- Datacenter selection is mid-sized
What you get
GreenGeeks intro vs. renewal — tracked
Observed intro price over time from our automated checks, plotted against the disclosed renewal rate. Hover any point for the source and date.
Every point is an observed intro price from our automated checks against GreenGeeks’s public pricing page. The dashed line is the disclosed renewal price.
Standard intro/renewal model.
LiteSpeed plus LSCache for fast WordPress out of the box.
We’d revise GreenGeeks’s score if…
- Renewal pricing rose materially above the $2.95/mo bracket without a corresponding feature uplift.
- Median support response time exceeded our category threshold across two consecutive monthly probes.
- Measured uptime fell below the 99.9%+ commitment in a 90-day rolling window, or a confirmed outage went unannounced.
- The refund window (30-day money-back guarantee) was narrowed, or readers reported friction actually claiming it.
Every revision is logged on the public corrections log. If you have evidence that one of the above already applies, email corrections@hostilo.net.
What's actually changed at GreenGeeks
Every price move, outage, policy change, and ownership shift we’ve verified — chronological, sourced where possible. This is the record behind the score.
- PolicyEditorial
Carbon-offset reporting now published quarterly
Third-party verified by Bonneville Environmental Foundation.
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