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Apr 14, 2013
Earlier this week we announced that we have upgraded all of our VPS Hosting servers to Intel Xeon E5 Processors. All of our existing VPS customers were automatically upgraded for free. GreenGeeks VPS Hosting servers now come standard with Intel Xeon E5 Processors, DDR3 Memory, RAID-10 high-performance and highly-redundant storage array’s, multi-gigabit network connection along...
Apr 12, 2013
What a day… After we came across some unusual activity on many of our servers, we pushed out an article to help our WordPress users protect their WP-Admin areas from attackers. As the day went on we started to see more of the unusual activity, but this time with tens of thousands of IP addresses. This...
Apr 11, 2013
WordPress as we know is one of the most popular content management systems around. That’s why WordPress is generally a target for attacks. Recently we came across a very robust DDoS targeted to the login page of WordPress sites hosted on our network and also on other well known web hosting providers. We take security...
Mar 16, 2013
As you know, GreenGeeks offers 300% Green Energy web hosting. So what does that really mean? It means that for every kilowatt that we draw from the power grid, we replace back 3 times in the form of wind energy. So not only are we offsetting what we’re using but we’re actually putting back MORE clean...
Feb 27, 2013
PageRank Status is a really great SEO extension for Google Chrome, it’s developed by Chrome fans. This free extension supports over 35 languages and there are over 170,000 webmaster users as of February 25, 2013. Unlike most similar extensions that limit to showing the basic PageRank or Alexa Rank information, PageRank Status does that and more. It can show Google PageRank...
Feb 26, 2013
As a CloudFlare Optimized Partner, we are thrilled to offer the CloudFlare Railgun™ technology to all our customers FREE. Railgun is CloudFlare’s latest performance optimization technology that gives you significant improvements in site load times. To activate Railgun, log into your control panel and select Railgun “On”. Read on for additional details and instructions: Railgun...
Feb 03, 2013
? Late last year we announced a partnership with CloudFlare, where we make it easy for you to enable CloudFlare on your account to take advantage of the benefits that CloudFlare offers. If you aren’t using CloudFlare on your hosting account, here’s 4 reasons why you should: 1. Increase in Site Performance We use the...
Jan 28, 2013
We’re now offering an added incentive to our VPS hosting service plans… new customers will pay only 50% for the first 2 months. GreenGeeks offers VPS hosting solution for enterprise and cloud hosting solutions ranging from storage of 25GB up to 125 GB and bandwidth from 500 GB to 1500 GB. “Our VPS customers are...
Jan 26, 2013
We’ve been offering VPS Hosting for quite some time now. We like to give our customers options for when it comes to hosting and that’s why we offer a wide array of hosting solutions, virtual private servers being one of them. However, not a lot of customers know what a VPS is and/or how it works. I’ll...
Jan 22, 2013
Back in May we released a blog post about updates on the versions of PHP we have available on our servers with the introduction of PHP 5.3 to our server fleet. We are happy to announce a new tool in our cPanel which allows you to choose the PHP version of your account as well...
Jan 06, 2013
Customers ask us all the time about how to get their site at a higher ranking in Google. These days, most people discover new sites by finding them in search engines like Google or Yahoo. The process of improving your ranking in these search engines is called Search Engine Optimization, or SEO. Here are a...
Oct 11, 2012
If you haven’t heard about CloudFlare before, their value proposition is simple: they’ll make any website twice as fast and protect it from a broad range of web threats. CloudFlare makes it easy for any site to be as fast and secure as the Internet giants. That fits perfectly in line with what we’re always striving...
Oct 01, 2012
About a month ago we announced an GreenGeeks Video Review contest where we were giving away 3 iPad’s. It’s one thing to see e-mails written in to tell us how great we are, but it’s another when you actually see and hear it from customers. We had a lot of fun with this and I’m sure...
Sep 27, 2012
A lot of people are using Tablet’s and e-readers, and the more they use them, the more power they draw from the grid to charge them up again. That’s what makes the SolarKindle Lighted Cover such a cool green gadget. With Amazon Kindle being the hottest e-reader on the planet, SolarFocus has designed the world’s first...
Sep 25, 2012
What a summer! Upgrades galore! One of the unique things about GreenGeeks web hosting is that we’re always looking for ways to provide our customers with the best possible hosting experience. This is what sets us apart from the competition. I’ve worked at other hosting providers where there were no advancements. It was boring and...
Sep 13, 2012
Our Ecosite package is pretty amazing because it gives you so many great features like unlimited disk space, bandwidth, and email addresses. But what about our customers who are running more robust systems that need greater RAM, CPU, and process resources? In the past, we have moved these customers up to our VPS hosting packages,...
Sep 08, 2012
? We’re giving away 3 iPad’s this October. Here’s how you can participate: 1) Record a 60 second video review of GreenGeeks. Tell us how you found us, why you picked us, why you love us, how we helped you with your online presence, etc. Be sure to mention who you are and what website...
Aug 31, 2012
We’re always looking to introduce our users to cool gadgets that are also green. We recently came across the Raspberry Pi Computer project. It is a fully functioning computer that starts at only $25.While the specs are very modest, roughly equidistant to a 300MHz Pentium 2, the device is capable of outputting full 1080P blu-ray quality video which...
Aug 28, 2012
If you’re a GreenGeeks customer or a regular reader of our blog, you know how passionate we are about environmentally conscious web hosting. But what you may not have known is that our affiliates tend to be just as passionate about it – and today’s post is about one of those folks and her mission...
Aug 26, 2012
We’re always looking for ways to make our customers lives easier. We were one of the first hosting companies to offer free site migration for customers who transferred to us from other providers and it was received with much appreciation from our customers. It’s a no hands approach to getting set up with us. For...
Aug 25, 2012
A couple of us were watching the Colts vs Redskins NFL pre-season game and they made mention of FedExField having added a solar panels to power its stadium. Thought it was worth mentioning. They claim it can provide 20% of the power needed during game day and provide 100% of the power the stadium needs on...
Aug 21, 2012
Chances are you are paying too much to process credit cards online. If you feel you may be paying more than you bargained for, it’s time to take a closer look at your rates. It’s likely that the rate you think your cards are processing at— the rate your merchant provider advertised— was the qualified...
Aug 18, 2012
So while thinking of new ideas to bring to our blog, we thought we would find cool green gadgets that are available and share them with you. We’ll post these cool gadgets from time to time. This time, we came across USBCELL, which is a USB re-chargeable AA battery. Disposing of batteries is as we know...
Aug 10, 2012
We at GreenGeeks are big supporters of the Drupal project. We show our love of the Drupal community by not only making it easy to start hosting a Drupal site, but also through giving at many levels of support to the Drupal Association: we are a Supporting Partner, have been an Organization Member, and we’ve...
Aug 10, 2012
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has received reports of an online scam, wherein “renewdomain.ca” is sending out fake email renewal notices to .CA Registrants. “Renewdomain.ca” is not a CIRA Certified Registrar and is fraudulently posing as the Registrant’s Registrar in an attempt to obtain payment from the Registrant. The email identifies the recipient’s domain...
Aug 08, 2012
Last Friday the popular WordPress blog and resource center WPHub.com awarded us their Best Value for WordPress Hosting Award. We’re extremely excited about and thankful for this nod of appreciation from one of the rising stars in the WordPress ecosphere. We are however aware that you may not be familiar with WPHub as they are...
Aug 02, 2012
WordPress is by far the most popular content management system we host here at GreenGeeks. I had the pleasure of sitting down with our System Adminstrator Karl Davids today to go over what makes GreenGeeks the perfect WordPress hosting provider. Q: So Karl, What do you do here at GreenGeeks? A: I am one of the...
Aug 01, 2012
Hey everyone, how about $75 in free AdLeads credits? Exclusively for GreenGeeks customers! As the newest GreenGeeks partner, we’re excited to take a moment here to introduce AdLeads by Pontiflex. Since their launch in 2008, Pontiflex has been pioneering the art of performance-based advertising on both web and mobile. Rather than sell accidental clicks or...
Jun 25, 2012
This summer is all about bringing value added partnerships to your hosting experience with us. We work hard to obtain partnerships and products at significant discounts to you. Our latest addition, Cashie Commerce, is a really exciting product for many reasons. Many of our customers use the extremely popular content management system, WordPress. Cashie Commerce...
Jun 21, 2012
If you’re using Apple’s MobileMe service, you may know that as part of their migration to iCloud some features such as iDisk files, Gallery photos, and iWeb hosted websites will be taken down by June 30, 2012. Don’t worry though! You can still use iWeb and the change doesn’t mean you will lose your iWeb...
Jun 04, 2012
We have been working hard over the past few months to bring our customers new partnerships with software that compliments our hosting well. We only partner with people we strongly believe provide the same level of customer service that we do. One of our latest partners is a service called SiteLock. Security has always been...
May 31, 2012
GreenGeeks is expanding. Since inception, we’ve been provisioning servers for our US-based services at our Chicago data center. As of today, we’ve added a second location and are now provisioning servers in Phoenix, Arizona! The new data center is fully automated so we’re able to provide the same seamless service to you. To view details...
May 30, 2012
About a month ago, we wrote an article about some changes that were being made to the PHP versions across our fleet of servers. We have made some changes to the procedure for using either PHP 5.2 or 5.3. Over the past few weeks, we have been making changes to our servers in order to...
May 16, 2012
Security and backup for your website has always been a big deal for us here at GreenGeeks and we put a great amount of energy to ensure your website data is secure and backed up… we run on the principle of being safe than sorry — so as far as your website is concerned, you’re...
Apr 18, 2012
We’ve been working hard over the past few months to introduce a new feature that is pretty exciting for us. Keeping our servers up to date with the most variety of software has always been important to our team. We have been developing a way for our customers to choose between PHP 5.2 and 5.3...
Apr 11, 2012
Hello Everyone, We’re always looking for ways to improve your hosting experience with us. One request I seem to get quite often is to help a customer to switch their mail servers over to Google Apps. Google has a very robust mail and application service that is used by millions throughout the world. Many of...
Mar 29, 2012
Hello Everyone, I love talking to people on the phone because it is obvious how passionate I am about the level of service we provide here. I think the most frequent question I get is “Why should I choose GreenGeeks?. While you could read our why us page, I wanted to point out a few things...
Mar 23, 2012
(Trey Gardner, CEO of GreenGeeks – Pictured Above) DrupalCon Denver 2012 was a hit. The attendee count was 3000+, which is awesome! Taking from last year’s success at DrupalCon Chicago, we decided to go bigger and better. We spent over $300 dollars in candy to provide Drupalistas the sugar energy fix they needed to get...
Mar 23, 2012
Yup! We’re still giving them away! To kick off the new year, we awarded Anna an iPad 2! She chose the white! Here’s what she had to say about when she first heard about winning: “My first reaction was that it was a joke, and I was thrilled! I love Green Geeks so far- I’m...
Mar 13, 2012
Hello Everyone, I’ll be making regular blog posts about what we’re up to here at GreenGeeks and how we tackle customer service differently from other companies. One of my jobs as a customer service supervisor is to monitor a series of calls from each of our agents and rate them using a list of criteria...
Feb 17, 2012
We know, this is a bit late… but the winner sent this one in late! They decided to take the money instead of the iPad. The winner was: The Northeast Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics. Here is the picture they took for us:
Jan 24, 2012
The lucky winner of our December 2011 iPad Winner is Antoinette Izzo from Surprise, Arizona! When we called her, she definitely was surprised! She opted to take the money instead of the iPad 2. We’re giving an iPad 2 away every month to new customers. To learn more, see our iPad 2 Giveaway Page.
Jan 10, 2012
In November, Zach Brown was the lucky winner of our Monthly iPad2 Giveaway. Congratulations. We’re still giving away iPad 2?s every month. All you have to do is sign up for a new account during the month to be eligible. See full details on our iPad 2 Giveaway page.
Nov 01, 2011
Los Angeles, CA, November 1, 2011 – GreenGeeks, a world leader in providing green energy web hosting solutions has announced today that it has launched its services in Canada. “For several years now our top tier technical and quality assurance teams have been comprised of American and Canadian personnel” said Trey Gardner, CEO of GreenGeeks....
Aug 04, 2011
Another one given away, this time the winner is Doreen Browning of Enrich, Inc. ( http://www.enrichnc.org ). She was kind enough to take a snap with the prize “The iPad is wonderful and we are using it daily. Thank you for making this opportunity available”. – Doreen Browning. Enrich, Inc. We’re also giving away an...
Jul 12, 2011
GreenGeeks has been providing web hosting for a very long time and our management have been in the industry even longer. We’ve seen our fair share of outages caused mostly by a few customers bringing the server to a grinding halt due to poorly coded web sites, too much traffic and a slew of other...
Jun 14, 2011
In April, our marketing team thought of giving away prizes to customers, so we started our first ever iPad 2 Giveaway. Any new customer to purchase a hosting account within the month of April 2011 would have a chance to win an Apple iPad 2 32GB. Who wouldn’t want one of these cool tablets! Congratulations...
Jun 12, 2011
If you want to accept credit cards online, you will need to set up a credit card merchant account with a reputable firm. There are a lot of merchant account providers out there, however, GreenGeeks has teamed up with e-onlinedata to make it easy for our customers to obtain merchant accounts and use the Authorize.net...
Apr 09, 2011
“My WordPress Blog Got Hacked” is something that we as a hosting company hear all the time, which is unfortunate. What’s even more unfortunate is we as the web hosting provider often get blamed for it by our very own customers. I can’t really blame our customers for this either, I guess they just don’t...
Apr 07, 2011
Last month we were an official sponsor of DrupalCon 2011 Chicago, and a few of us headed out to the windy city to participate. The conference was a great turn out. Our team met a lot of our customers and a lot of potential new customers who were interested in our green approach to the...
Apr 01, 2011
We’re running a promotion for new customers in the month of April. When you sign up for any of our hosting services, whether it be a shared, reseller or vps account, you will be automatically enrolled in our iPad 2 giveaway. See our Apple 32GB iPad 2 giveaway details. TJ Williams GreenGeeks / Marketing
Mar 31, 2011
GreenGeeks recently was considered a “good guy” in the web hosting industry by review site WebHostingSearch, here’s some of what they had to say. “Everyone working for Green Geeks is extremely customer orientated and it doesn’t take a genius to realize that they love what they’re doing. The support team is always forthcoming and they...
May 20, 2010
Since Winter of 2009, we have been provisioning our new servers with 8GB of RAM, however this didn’t mean that our older servers were up to the newest standard’s here at GreenGeeks. Over the last few weeks, our level 3 administrators, NOC technicians and front-lines have been working hard to schedule and upgrade all the...
May 11, 2010
A few weeks ago, we announced that we launched a new eco-friendly initiative. ”We are very excited by this new initiative” Says Trey Gardner CEO of GreenGeeks. “Since inception our mission has been to be the most eco-friendly web host around and to force others within our industry to go green. This new initiative embraces and...
Feb 09, 2010
Los Angeles, CA, February 9, 2010 – GreenGeeks.com, a leading eco-friendly web web hosting company today announced that it has been chosen as the official web hosting company for the Drupal for Dummies book. Drupal For Dummies, is one of the latest in the series of For Dummies books by Wiley Publishing Inc. The For...
Jan 24, 2010
I was on the road when I heard that Haiti had been hit by an earthquake of a magnitude in the range of the low 7?s, if I recall correctly I think I remembered 7.1 magnitude and that the quake epicenter was somewhere around 300 miles off shore. I was traveling that week and while...