# GreenGeeks > Shared, WordPress and VPS hosting with a renewable energy match GreenGeeks is an independent web host founded in 2008 that sells shared and WordPress hosting on cPanel, plus managed VPS, reseller and dedicated servers. It buys renewable energy credits for three times the power its platform uses and plants a tree for each new hosting account. Plans include LiteSpeed caching, a free CDN, daily backups, free malware cleanups and a free domain for the first year. - **Category:** Web Hosting - **Made by:** GreenGeeks (since 2008) - **Website:** https://www.greengeeks.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026 ## Pricing GreenGeeks is a paid product, starting at $13.95 per month at renewal (Lite), after a first year at $2.95 a month. - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Lite, 12 months | $13.95 per month at renewal, after a first year at $2.95 a month | 1 website, 25 GB and unmetered traffic. The first 12 months cost $2.95 a month, prepaid, then the plan renews at $13.95 a month. | | Pro, 12 months | $18.95 per month at renewal, after a first year at $4.95 a month | Unlimited websites and 50 GB. The first 12 months cost $4.95 a month, prepaid, then $18.95 a month. | | Premium, 12 months | $30.95 per month at renewal, after a first year at $8.95 a month | Unlimited websites and 100 GB for busier sites and stores. The first 12 months cost $8.95 a month, prepaid, then $30.95 a month. | | VPS 4 GB | $69.95 per month for 4 vCPU and 4 GB RAM | Fully managed VPS with 75 GB SSD, cPanel and free migration. 8 GB is $129.95 a month and 16 GB $179.95. | Read from https://www.greengeeks.com/shared-hosting/ on Oct 17, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with GreenGeeks before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **First year of Lite for $2.95 a month** (Other savings): On a 12-month term the first year is $2.95 a month for Lite, $4.95 for Pro and $8.95 for Premium, prepaid. They renew at $13.95, $18.95 and $30.95 a month. Source: https://www.greengeeks.com/shared-hosting/ ## Key features - **LiteSpeed caching and CDN:** Sites run on LiteSpeed with LSCache and Redis, HTTP/3 and current PHP versions, and a free CDN can be switched on in one click. - **Security and malware cleanup:** A firewall that uses AI to spot attacks and network-level DDoS protection guard every account, and hacked sites are cleaned free, with some limits. - **WordPress tools:** Automatic WordPress updates, staging, WP-CLI, Git and SSH, with daily backups and on-demand backups on some plans. - **Free migration and domain:** Specialists move an existing site and its email across by hand, and a domain registration or transfer is free for the first year. - **Site builders and app installer:** A one-click installer covers more than 150 apps such as WordPress, Joomla and Drupal, and SitePad and Weebly are offered for drag-and-drop sites. - **Renewable energy match:** GreenGeeks matches three times its energy use with renewable energy credits through the Bonneville Environmental Foundation and plants trees with One Tree Planted. ## Good for - Small business sites and blogs that want cPanel shared hosting - Buyers who want their host's energy use offset by renewables - Sites that may later move to a fully managed VPS with the same company ## Worth knowing - The advertised $2.95 a month is for the first 12 months, prepaid; Lite then renews at $13.95 a month, Pro at $18.95 and Premium at $30.95. - The pricing page shows only 12-month terms, and the free domain covers the first year only. - The 30-day money-back guarantee covers new services, not renewals, and auto-renewal must be turned off at least 5 business days before. - Lite hosts a single website; more than one site needs Pro or higher. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. GreenGeeks is solid cPanel shared hosting with a green angle: it matches three times its power use with renewable energy credits. Daily backups, staging, free malware cleanups, a CDN and migrations done by hand are all included. The $2.95 a month is for year one only, and Lite renews at $13.95 for a single site. - **Value for money: B.** Lite's first year is $2.95 a month prepaid, then $13.95, so two years cost $202.80, about $8.45 a month, inside the cheaper quarter of hosts. Only 12-month terms are shown, so there's no longer deal to stretch the low price. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no trial. The 30-day money-back guarantee covers new services only, and it isn't a trial. - **Features: B.** LiteSpeed with a free CDN, daily backups, staging, WP-CLI and Git, free malware cleanups, migrations of site and email done by hand, a first-year domain and a 150-app installer. Nothing in the core job is missing. - **Ease of use: C.** No app store rating to go on. Migrations are done for you, but it's cPanel, so there's still a site, domain and email to set up. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** A web panel only. The named integrations are cPanel and the apps it installs, WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, SitePad and Weebly, with no API on record. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from GreenGeeks's own pages on 17 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among web hosts - GreenGeeks's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 7 of the 21 other web hosts we grade, and level with 7. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 11 of 21) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $2.95 a month, against a middle price of $10.99 for the category: 3 of the 16 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/web-hosting ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace GreenGeeks you would be making servers kept running, patched and backed up for you. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $35.40 a year. - You could not: Servers kept running, patched and backed up for you. - You could not: An engine that recognises new malware as it appears. - You could not: It plugs into other products, WordPress, WooCommerce and cPanel among them. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with WordPress, WooCommerce, cPanel, LiteSpeed Cache, Joomla, Drupal, SitePad, Weebly **Tags:** Managed WordPress, Malware protection ## Alternatives - [Hostinger](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hostinger): Shared, WordPress and cloud hosting run from its own hPanel dashboard. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/greengeeks-vs-hostinger) - [SiteGround](https://toolgpa.com/tools/siteground): Shared and WordPress hosting on Google Cloud with its own Site Tools. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/greengeeks-vs-siteground) - [Bluehost](https://toolgpa.com/tools/bluehost): WordPress-focused shared hosting sold on multi-year terms. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bluehost-vs-greengeeks) - [hosting.com](https://toolgpa.com/tools/a2-hosting): Shared hosting from the former A2 Hosting, with an API and MCP server. 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