Greengeeks FAQ
Greengeeks is probably the most respected name for gree hosting technologies. The company has been doing each effort to reduce carbon footprint and electricity usage by extremely strict rules. Over 7 years growth and development, greengeeks has completed multiple crucial upgrades from a single shared hosting plan to multi class platforms. This greengeeks faq writing will guide you to learn more about the company side by side.
Q: When and where was greengeeks company founded?
A: Greengeeks was founded in 2008 by Trey gardner from Agoura Hills, CA, USA.
Q: Where's greengeeks data center located?
A: Greengeeks currently operates from three world class green data centers – Chicago, Phoenix and Toronto. They're also planning a new data center from Amsterdam. Every data center is SAS 70 Type 1 certified with Dual-city grid power feeds, Automatic temperature and climate control system. Data center professionals are monitoring 24*7 for urgent supports. Following IPs are provided for user testing purpose
- Chicago: 216.104.36.130
- Phoenix: 108.178.62.234
- Toronto: 209.15.192.164
Q: How many hosting plans available from greengeeks?
A: Greengeeks provides shared, VPS, reseller and dedicated server plans. There's a single shared hosting with all technical support. But clients have multiple choice over VPS and dedicated servers.
Q: What makes greengeeks wordpress hosting different than others?
A: Greengeeks actually does not offer a dedicated plan for wordpress. Instead, it's supported together with shared hosting server, greengeeks just provides extra support to this software like real time scanning and brute froce & ddos protection. All other technical parts are same as regular accounts.
Q: What kind of hosting control panel used?
A: Greengeeks provides standard cpanel control panel. All techical functionss are offered and greengeeks inhouse developped Apps are also provided.
Q: Does greengeeks offer website builder?
A: Yes, rvsitebuilder is what being used from control panel. Control panel demo
Q: What's the available PHP & Mysql version?
A: Greengeeks provides up to date PHP 5.6 and Mysql 5.6. You can select PHP version from 5.2~5.6 in control panel center.
Q: Does greengeeks provide CDN support?
A: Yes, greengeeks added cloudflare free cdn service in control panel. Clients can add to website easily by following its step by step guides.
Q: Is greengeeks CMS scripts friendly?
A: Yes, greengeeks is standard linux hosting service and compatible with almost all available cms softwares such as wordpress, drupal. The scripts installer can find most available package for one click installation.
Q: What kind of webmail software provided by greengeeks?
A: Greengeeks provides default cpanel email installation, SquirrelMail, Roundcube and Horde. People can select according to actual experience.
Q: What kind of customer support available?
A: Greengeeks provides side by side support from following channels: WebChat(mostly for sales), Ticket, email, phone call and Video tutorial etc. If their people can not serve you properly, the boss Trey gardner can help directly based his 20+ years' hosting experience, he is very active in communicating to customers.
Q: How much disk and bandwidth allocated to my account?
A: Greengeeks officially does not any limitation to disk space and traffic per account. Each customer account is isolated each other thus no overuse problem will cause problem to other accounts.
Q: What's the server setup details?
A: All greengeeks server systems are powered by SSD RAID 10 drives and SAS for storage drives. Their people are trying the max available hardware resources to build the most powerful server platform.
- Latest Generation Intel Xeon processors
- Minimum 64 GB DDR3 ECC-Registered Memory
- Gigabit Connectivity
- BGP4 Gigabit connectivity to multiple Fiber GigE Tier 1 Backbones
- RAID-10 SSD Storage Arrays for maximum performance & redundancy
- Solid State Drive (SSD) Acceleration
- Name brand server parts
Q: How come greengeeks 300% green?
A: It's about greengeeks server optimization and electricity power usage. Greengeeks is the very first company who put green tag for web hosting service. In order to make full use of power and reduce power consumption, their people use up to date hardware production with less electricity usage. Either from server system optimization or physic computer construction, their people have done sufficient tests. They only purchase wind power electricity supply which has zero carbon foot print to atmosphere.
The most important thing is there real attitude. The greengeeks office is built up to make full use of sunshine and their staffs eat home cooking food thus no one time plastic wastes will be produced. From their internal calculation, they can reduce 615000+ kWh/year electricity.
Q: Does greengeeks provide SSD server hosting?
A: Yes, all greengeek hosting servers ultilize SSD RAID 10 for system drives.
Q: What's the greengeeks backup policy?
A: Greengeeks provides courtesy nightly backup for all server accounts. The task is scheduled to run automatically at midnight to guarantee the best performance.
Q: How does greengeeks free website migration work?
A: You need to sign up their hosting first then submit a ticket to migration team and tell them your old hosting details. The team will migrate over in real quick time while you're waiting.
Q: What kind of promotion available?
A: Greengeeks provides 20% discount for any period contract. However, the monthly prices for monthly, quarterly and yearly are different. The longer contract we select, a better price will be generated plus extra 20% discount!