Pricing:  

GreenGeeks offers a relatively simple pricing structure, $7.95 per month for the one year plan and $6.95 for the 2 year package. Most things are included in the package for free, such as SSL, phone support and private registration, set up is also free. A dedicated IP cost $30 per year and additional domains are $24.95.

Hosting Features:  

This webhosting service offers pretty much everything you need to host your site, from an easy to use control panel to unlimited storage and transfer rates. It comes with a simple to use drag and drop site builder if you need it, image storage, useful code sets, compatibility with popular products like WordPress and Joomla and much more. You can view your log files and statistics through Webalizer and of course it is compatible with things like Google Analytics and other free services.

They also provide good up-time statistics and offer redundant storage of your files, though they do recommend that you also backup your site for extra protection. GreenGeeks even offers a 30-day refund for an extra level of comfort.

Domains:  

GreenGeeks provides the first domain registration or transfer for free with the service. However, they do this through a third-party service and the subsequent domains that you may desire have to come from another service, like from a service like GoDaddy or Yahoo! GreenGeeks offers them for $24.95. However, once you have your domains, this service will host unlimited domains and sub domains as well as parked and private domains. They do not, however, support International domains; they only support standard top-level domains such as .com, .net, .info, .biz or .org.

If you leave the service for some reason, you can take your domain with you for $24.95.

Ecommerce Hosting:  

This webhosting service can provide you with full shopping cart support and can support third-party purchasing tools such as PayPal and Google Checkout. They can also provide SSL secure transfers, password protected directories, open PGP/GPG encryption and a variety of shopping carts including OS Commerce, Agora and Zencart.

Email:  

In terms of email, GreenGeeks offers everything we were looking for, such as unlimited accounts, high storage limits, forwarding, mailing lists and autoresponders. It also supports a variety of email protocols including POP3, IMAP, SMTP and web-based type email accounts. The default for email accounts in terms of storage is 250MB, which is enough for most, but it can be adjusted and is combined with the total storage allowance for the entire site and related files.

Access:  

GreenGeeks requires that you use a third-party FTP service such at SmartFTP, CuteFTP or FileZilla. Once you set up with an FTP service, which is easy to do and usually free, it will support an unlimited number of accounts and anonymous downloads. They also provide full FTP session control through the main control panel and we really like the easy to use account manager that explains all terms to make file management easy for even beginning users.

While other web hosting services may provide a file loader or FTP service with the package, it really is not that major of an issue since it is really simple to sign up for one and configure it. Once that is done, loading files to your site is extremely simple.

Programming / Multimedia:  

This web hosting service can support most types of media, including streaming audio and video, which uses a larger portion of bandwidth than some services will support for a low price. GreenGeek also supports Flash files and Real audio and video.

In terms of the techie stuff, it supports CGI type files, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, server side includes, Cron jobs, MySQL and FrontPage extensions. So just about anything you may want to use (with the exception of JSP, ASP and Coldfusion) and of course it does not support asp.net because it is Linux/Unix based.

Support & Service:  

You can contact GreenGeeks for support by email 24/7 and they also offer free telephone and chat support. We used their chat support option during normal business hours and found that the support representative was able to answer all of our questions in a timely manner.

For customer education they offer many video tutorials and you can find easy to understand definitions of technical terms. We liked that help information was easily accessible through the control panel and that we could find answers to most of our question rather quickly.

GreenGeeks provides everything you need to get your site launched in the shortest amount of time possible and for every Kilowatt of energy your site uses, they pay three times the credit towards wind energy. You can’t go wrong by checking them out. They also offer a free demo of their control panel and a money back guarantee, so all in all GreenGeeks are most definitely worth investigating.