Reviews written by Super User

Over the years I've had several opportunities to work with various web hosting companies. Some I've been impressed with and others well, not so impressed. So far my personal experience with GreenGeeks has been very positive.

A little over a year ago we were working on a project that required some web hosting. I thought this would be a good time to give GreenGeeks a try and see what all of the hype that I was hearing was really about. I also liked how they purchased 3 times the wind energy that they used.

I went through the signup process which was very easy. It was your standard web hosting signup process. They offer a free domain with your hosting but we already had purchased the domain name. After filling out the form and then submitting it on their website I received an email about 5 minutes later with all of my account info. One of the things that I noticed in their email was that they offered to move my existing website over for free. I didn't need this service but I thought this was a great service they offered, especially for someone that may not be that savvy in web hosting.

After getting my log in info I proceeded to log in and start setting up my web site. GreenGeeks uses cPanel as their control panel. If your not familiar with cPanel it allows you to manage virtually every aspect of you website from one location. From one screen you can create email accounts, modify DNS, create email forwarders, monitor your website and much more. cPanel is considered to be one of the best web hosting control panels out there.

I installed WordPress using Softaculous right from the cPanel control panel. This was the first time I had ever used Softaculous and I was very impressed. This has to be one of the sleekest one-click install programs I have seen. It allows you to choose which platform you want to install i.e. WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and many, many others. I selected WordPress, clicked install and within a few minutes I had our new site up and running.

We haven't experienced any downtime or slowness. So far its been very hard to find any negatives about GreenGeeks.

HostGator has taken off. They have quickly become one of the larger web hosting companies out there. They are a full-featured hosting company that offers several different hosting options. They can easily meet that needs of a small local business website all the way up to a large enterprise.

Web Hosting Wiki is hosted by HostGator and we have been very pleased with their support, speed and options. HostGator uses cPanel so this makes it very easy to manage the website, email accounts, statistics and billing. We have never experienced any sort of down time. If there was any it was so quick that we didn’t catch it. We’ve only run into one issues since hosting with HostGator and as it turned out it was a typo on our end. However, we contacted support through their live chat. Their support team was able to find the typo in our DNS record and correct it very quickly.

The bottom line is HostGator is a major player in the web hosting industry. They are well known and respected. You don’t get that way by doing things wrong. HostGator makes it easy enough for someone with no html, php or web site experience to click on a few buttons and have their website up and running in just a few minutes. They also have tons of features and options for the more advanced user.

If you ever outgrow your shared hosting plan you can easily migrate your site(s) to a VPS or dedicated server when needed. HostGator gives you the ability to start off small and grow with you as your company or website grows.