GreenGeeks Review: VPS and Shared Hosting

Most web hosting companies have similar background stories, but GreenGeeks offers a somewhat unique twist: being environmentally friendly. The company, which offers shared and VPS (Virtual Private Server) hosting, makes an effort to live up to its name by claiming to use energy-efficient hardware and replacing the power it uses each month with 300 percent more in wind power credits. The company also plants a tree for each account. 

These environmentally-conscious actions may make you feel good about using GreenGeeks, which launched in 2010 and has data centers in Chicago, Montreal, Amsterdam, and Singapore. But are any of its packages among the best web hosting plans? To find out, we’ve tested two plans: the $59.95 4GB Managed VPS plan and the “Lite” Shared hosting plan that…