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  "@type": "Dataset",
  "name": "GreenGeeks hosting test results",
  "description": "Uptime, response time, load test and support results for GreenGeeks: HostIdea's own monitoring windows under tests[], and published third-party measurements under thirdParty[], each attributed to its source.",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "creator": {
    "@type": "Organization",
    "name": "HostIdea",
    "url": "https://hostidea.com"
  },
  "measurementTechnique": "https://hostidea.com/methodology",
  "url": "https://hostidea.com/reviews/greengeeks",
  "dateModified": "2026-10-14",
  "host": {
    "id": "greengeeks",
    "name": "GreenGeeks",
    "website": "https://www.greengeeks.com/"
  },
  "overallScore": 7.3,
  "scores": {
    "performance": 7.5,
    "uptime": 7,
    "support": 7.5,
    "features": 7.5,
    "value": 6.5,
    "easeOfUse": 8
  },
  "scoresUpdated": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
  "pricing": {
    "lastVerified": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
    "source": "https://www.greengeeks.com/shared-hosting/"
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      "name": "Lite",
      "type": "shared",
      "intro": {
        "amount": 2.95,
        "currency": "USD"
      },
      "renewal": {
        "amount": 13.95,
        "currency": "USD"
      },
      "term": "annual",
      "termMonths": 12,
      "websites": 1,
      "storageGb": 25,
      "bandwidth": "unmetered",
      "freeDomain": true,
      "freeSsl": true,
      "backups": "Not stated on the plan page; HostScore reports daily backups on all plans",
      "moneyBackDays": 30,
      "highlights": [
        "Pre-paid for 12 months; renews at $13.95 a month",
        "LiteSpeed with LSCache, HTTP/3, free CDN integration",
        "Free SSH and SFTP, MySQL",
        "Free domain for the first year"
      ],
      "terms": [
        {
          "months": 12,
          "intro": {
            "amount": 2.95,
            "currency": "USD"
          },
          "renewal": {
            "amount": 13.95,
            "currency": "USD"
          },
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    },
    {
      "id": "pro",
      "name": "Pro",
      "type": "shared",
      "intro": {
        "amount": 4.95,
        "currency": "USD"
      },
      "renewal": {
        "amount": 18.95,
        "currency": "USD"
      },
      "term": "annual",
      "termMonths": 12,
      "websites": "unlimited",
      "storageGb": 50,
      "bandwidth": "unmetered",
      "freeDomain": true,
      "freeSsl": true,
      "backups": "Not stated on the plan page; HostScore reports daily backups on all plans",
      "moneyBackDays": 30,
      "highlights": [
        "Pre-paid for 12 months; renews at $18.95 a month",
        "Sold as the most popular plan with more speed and resources",
        "LiteSpeed with LSCache, HTTP/3, free CDN integration",
        "Free domain for the first year"
      ],
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        {
          "months": 12,
          "intro": {
            "amount": 4.95,
            "currency": "USD"
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          "renewal": {
            "amount": 18.95,
            "currency": "USD"
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    },
    {
      "id": "premium",
      "name": "Premium",
      "type": "shared",
      "intro": {
        "amount": 8.95,
        "currency": "USD"
      },
      "renewal": {
        "amount": 30.95,
        "currency": "USD"
      },
      "term": "annual",
      "termMonths": 12,
      "websites": "unlimited",
      "storageGb": 100,
      "bandwidth": "unmetered",
      "freeDomain": true,
      "freeSsl": true,
      "backups": "Not stated on the plan page; HostScore reports daily backups on all plans",
      "moneyBackDays": 30,
      "highlights": [
        "Pre-paid for 12 months; renews at $30.95 a month",
        "Sold for busy sites and stores",
        "LiteSpeed with LSCache, HTTP/3, free CDN integration",
        "Free domain for the first year"
      ],
      "terms": [
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          "months": 12,
          "intro": {
            "amount": 8.95,
            "currency": "USD"
          },
          "renewal": {
            "amount": 30.95,
            "currency": "USD"
          },
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  "thirdParty": [
    {
      "publication": "HostingStep",
      "author": "Mohan Raj",
      "url": "https://hostingstep.com/hosting-reviews/greengeeks/",
      "title": "HostingStep, GreenGeeks review",
      "kind": "independent",
      "updated": "2026-07-25T00:00:00.000Z",
      "accessed": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "plan": "Lite",
      "location": "Chicago, US",
      "tool": "Pingdom",
      "checkIntervalSeconds": 60,
      "uptime": [
        {
          "pct": 99.9572,
          "windowDays": 243,
          "window": "1 October 2025 to 31 May 2026",
          "outages": 25
        }
      ],
      "responseMs": 411,
      "responseNote": "average TTFB from US locations over the window, 316 to 735 ms range",
      "loadTest": {
        "concurrentUsers": 100,
        "avgResponseMs": 26,
        "errorRatePct": 0
      },
      "notes": "2 hours 30 minutes of downtime across 25 outages, against a median of 9 outages for the hosts it monitors; 33 outages and 217 minutes in 2024, 21 and 138 minutes in 2025. Cached global TTFB 384 ms; WPBench hardware 5.0. The page says no CDN was integrated on its account despite the advertised integration."
    },
    {
      "publication": "WPBeginner",
      "author": "Nouman Yaqoob",
      "url": "https://www.wpbeginner.com/hosting/greengeeks/",
      "title": "WPBeginner, GreenGeeks review",
      "kind": "independent",
      "updated": "2026-06-21T00:00:00.000Z",
      "accessed": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "plan": "Shared hosting plan (tier not stated)",
      "uptime": [
        {
          "pct": 99.97,
          "windowDays": 30,
          "window": "30 days",
          "outages": 3
        },
        {
          "pct": 100,
          "windowDays": 7,
          "window": "the most recent 7 days",
          "outages": 0
        }
      ],
      "responseMs": 376,
      "responseNote": "TTFB from US West (Oregon); 238 ms from Canada, 544 ms Frankfurt, 582 ms Ireland, 715 ms Tokyo, 1,046 ms São Paulo",
      "loadTest": {
        "concurrentUsers": 50,
        "tool": "k6"
      },
      "lcpMs": 487,
      "notes": "About 15 minutes of downtime in the 30 days. GTmetrix full load 734 ms with a CLS of 0. The k6 run at up to 50 users kept a flat response without a printed figure. Data center and monitoring tool not stated."
    },
    {
      "publication": "Cybernews",
      "author": "Miglė Šeikytė",
      "url": "https://cybernews.com/best-web-hosting/greengeeks-review/",
      "title": "Cybernews, GreenGeeks review",
      "kind": "independent",
      "updated": "2025-01-13T00:00:00.000Z",
      "accessed": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "location": "United States",
      "uptime": [
        {
          "pct": 99.98,
          "windowDays": 14,
          "window": "two weeks of monitoring",
          "outages": 2
        }
      ],
      "responseMs": 773,
      "responseNote": "average response during the window, which the page says improved over the period",
      "loadTest": {
        "concurrentUsers": 50,
        "errorRatePct": 0
      },
      "lcpMs": 530,
      "notes": "Four minutes of downtime. LCP 530 ms on a blank site from the US (627 ms from the UK, 2 s from India) and 1.2 s with content; fully loaded 1.6 s. Plan not stated."
    },
    {
      "publication": "Kripesh Adwani",
      "author": "Kripesh Adwani",
      "url": "https://kripeshadwani.com/greengeeks-review/",
      "title": "Kripesh Adwani, GreenGeeks review",
      "kind": "independent",
      "updated": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z",
      "accessed": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "plan": "Lite",
      "location": "Europe (9 ms from Germany, 17 ms from London)",
      "uptime": [
        {
          "pct": 99.81,
          "windowDays": 361,
          "window": "361 days; the monthly table printed covers January to October 2021",
          "outages": 69
        }
      ],
      "loadTest": {
        "concurrentUsers": 50,
        "errorRatePct": 0
      },
      "notes": "The page is dated 2026 but its uptime table runs from January to October 2021, so the record is from that period; the author attributes most incidents to his own load tests. The 50-user load test from the US had no failures but response times rose as high as 16,693 ms. Server response 182 ms from Singapore, 189 ms from Mumbai and 317 ms from Japan. Monitoring tool not named."
    },
    {
      "publication": "HostScore",
      "url": "https://hostscore.net/review/greengeeks/",
      "title": "HostScore, GreenGeeks review",
      "kind": "aggregate",
      "updated": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "accessed": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "uptime": [],
      "notes": "Overall HostScore 79.8 percent. Describes reliable uptime and fast loads without publishing figures, and reports daily backups on all plans. Dates the founding to 2008 by Trey Gardner in Santa Monica. User submissions on the page: 45 positive, 21 negative."
    }
  ],
  "supportTests": [],
  "changelog": [
    {
      "date": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "change": "First version built from verified sources: the shared hosting page (Lite, Pro and Premium with the 12-month price and the renewal printed under each card, sites and storage per plan, the included features and the FAQ on the free domain and the 2009 start of operations), the terms of service (30-day refund and its exclusions, the full month charged at cancellation, renewal notice, the 99.9 percent uptime guarantee without credits, the 30-day free migration window), the about page (2008, founder, 55,000 customers, 600,000 websites) and the data center page (Chicago, Montreal, Amsterdam, Singapore). Published measurements by HostingStep (eight-month window on Lite from Chicago), WPBeginner (June 2026), Cybernews (January 2025) and Kripesh Adwani (a 2021 table on a page dated 2026, stored with that note) are in thirdParty[]; HostScore is kept as an aggregate. No HostIdea monitoring window is open, so the scores are provisional: uptime weighs 99.96 percent against 25 outages in HostingStep's window, performance a 411 ms TTFB with excellent load handling, support three channels and reviewer accounts, features the domain, caching, SSH and four locations against unstated backups and resources, value renewals of $13.95 to $30.95.",
      "source": "https://www.greengeeks.com/shared-hosting/"
    }
  ]
}