Cloudways vs. GreenGeeks

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cloudways
Score 9.5 out of 10
N/A
Cloudways, by DigitalOcean, offers a range of managed hosting solutions, including managed Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento, and others, with a choice of infrastructure providers and media delivery via CloudwaysVPN, and CloudwaysBot notification system.
$10
per month
GreenGeeks
Score 1.0 out of 10
N/A
GreenGeeks is a green energy web hosting provider putting back into the grid through wind energy that we consume. The company offers Shared, Reseller, VPS and Dedicated Server packages for those just starting out all the way up to the professionals.
$2.95
per month
Pricing
CloudwaysGreenGeeks
Editions & Modules
Starting Price
$10.00
per month
Maximum Price
$274.33
per month
Lite/WordPress
$2.95
per month
Pro Web /WordPress
$5.95
per month
Premium/WordPress
$10.95
per month
RH-25
$19.95
per month
RH-50
$25.95
per month
RH-80
$34.95
per month
VPS 2GB
$39.95
per month
VPS 4GB
$59.95
per month
VPS 8GB
$109.95
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CloudwaysGreenGeeks
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup Fee$25 per applicationNo setup fee
Additional DetailsCloudways offers 1 free migration to all customers. For any further migration needs the customer can use our free WordPress migration plugin and do it themselves. Or they can request paid migration services for any PHP based application, which start at $25 per application.—
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Community Pulse
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Score 9.9 out of 10
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Score 9.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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WP Engine
Score 9.8 out of 10
WP Engine
WP Engine
Score 9.8 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 8.4 out of 10
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Score 8.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
CloudwaysGreenGeeks
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(4 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.7
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
CloudwaysGreenGeeks
Likelihood to Recommend
DigitalOcean
When you dont know how to set up a cloud server technically, (The LAMP stack or the PHP settings etc) Cloudways comes handy. You can easily modify the server settings with one click.
Less Appropriate - If you want to save costs, go for direct cloud providers. Setting up technical stuff is a one time job.
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GreenGeeks
If you are looking for a shared hosting service, Green Geeks pricing is comparable to most vendors. T2 tech support is generally knowledgeable, T1 is responsive via chat, but often is not able to resolve issues (other than KB questions). Load balancing on a shared server is difficult for all vendors, since individual website usage is hard to predict. Vendors have different ways of dealing with this - some simply do not guarantee resource limits (e.g. available memory, PHP threads, etc). Green Geeks does provide resource limits as part of their contracts, but they frequently downgrade those limits, presumably to address overloaded servers. BUT BE AWARE - I believe GreenGeeks uses unethical practices when a customer wants to cancel. It is my personal experience that they make it extremely difficult / impossible to cancel a contract. I feel the process is not transparent and they will ignore emails directing them to cancel. In my experience, they will then proceed to charge customers for a renewed contract. I believe multiple customers have reported this problem.
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Pros
DigitalOcean
  • Automatic Daily One Click Restore Backups
  • Integrated CDN
  • Easy & Intuitive Alternate Interface to cPanel and WHM
  • Very Affordable for High Specs
  • 24/7 Customer Support is Extremely Helpful
  • Serve & Application Management is a Breeze
  • Choose from Multiple Server Locations
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GreenGeeks
  • T1 support generally responds w/i 15-30 minutes
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Cons
DigitalOcean
  • Their free alternative to WP Rocket could be made more user-friendly and easier to understand
  • Create a function to automatically report heavy usage to specific email IDs
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GreenGeeks
  • In my personal experience, the billing department uses unethical practices when customers cancel subs.
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Support Rating
DigitalOcean
Technical support is just 2-3 clicks away and the Cloudways homepage and the operators are available almost 24/7. They also are able to answer any kind of question related to their services, whether economical or technical. I sometimes made mistakes while using their services and they have been keen to help me, and fixed my problems really fast.
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GreenGeeks
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Alternatives Considered
DigitalOcean
VPS and dedicated hosting are costly, Therefore cloud hosting provides a cheaper way to own a powerful server, and IP is dedicated as well. Cloudways was the decision because:
1) Easy to set up without any linux commands we can set up the server
2) Live chat for technical help. (Excellent agents, they helped out of the scope issues too)
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GreenGeeks
From a technical perspective, all shared server vendors are comparable. Bluehost has terrible customer support. A2 is more expensive, but has more personalized support.
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Return on Investment
DigitalOcean
  • Massive ROI compared to Go Daddy's Server
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GreenGeeks
  • Throttling servers impacted website availability.
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