iPage VS GreenGeeks
To compete in a web hosting market in the 21st century, you not only have to offer a reasonably priced hosting plan with competitive features, but you also must make a stand to reduce your carbon footprint, especially in the realm of energy consumption. Web servers tend to use a great deal of electricity, and a full data center warehouse can consume enough energy and produce enough heat for a small town.
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Thus, a “Green” movement has been noticed among major web hosting services who help offset their energy consumption through Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) for wind energy, and practice recycling and other energy efficiency programs. Both iPage and GreenGeeks are leaders in the web hosting industry in the Green movement. Not only do they promote environmental awareness, they also offer excellent hosting plans at the most competitive prices.
Pricing
Both companies offer a single shared-server hosting plan. Pricing depends on how much you pay in advance. The lowest iPage price is for a 3-year plan at $3.50 per month. Their 2-year plan is still just $4.50 per month. GreenGeeks’s 3-year plan is $4.95 per month while the 2-year plan is $6.95 per month.
Products and Services
Both GreenGeeks and iPage offer their customers a “green” badge or banner to post on their websites. As a result of both company’s efforts to reduce their carbon footprint, clients can proudly display their commitment to support this movement on their own websites.
In addition to green badges, iPage also offers an extensive list of additional products and services such as website management tools, email and ecommerce services, and marketing services.
Web Hosting Features
When it comes to choosing a hosting plan, features are one of the most important elements that new customers look at. Both iPage and GreenGeeks offer plans with unlimited bandwidth, disk space, email accounts, hosted domains, and MySQL databases. Both also offer an extensive list of script support and multi-media support. Both also offer a choice of free shopping cart for e-commerce solutions.
GreenGeeks offers a 30-day money back guarantee along with a 99.9% uptime guarantee. They will also provide marketing credits and search engine submission. GreenGeeks gets the nod for customer account control with the choice of cPanel control panel software.
iPage offers no uptime guarantee, but they do offer an anytime money back guarantee for customers. iPage also offers more marketing credits with $125 to spend on Google, Yahoo!, and Facebook.
Customer Service
Both web hosts offer 24 hour support. However, while iPage provides 24 hour telephone, chat, and email support, GreenGeeks offers only chat and email 24 hours. Telephone support at GreenGeeks is business hours only.
Both provide an extensive online knowledgebase with articles and video tutorials. The iPage knowledgebase appears to have more categories and topics, particularly with video tutorials.
Recommendations
Both GreenGeeks and iPage are leaders in the green movement for web hosting services. Both offer excellent plans with great features. Yet, it comes down to best price and support options for this reviewer. Thus, iPage takes our recommendation for these reasons.
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iPage’s uptime is really bad. The other days I wasn’r able to get onto my website for three days! My website’s position in Google fell dramatically, my ROI is still negative.
Don’t use iPage ever!
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