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1. Plans and Pricing
Hostinger Is More Cost-Effective and Has Cheaper Renewal Rates Than GreenGeeks
With Hostinger, you can choose from shared, cloud, VPS, WordPress, email, CMS, e-commerce, and MineCraft server hosting. GreenGeeks provides slightly fewer hosting solutions; shared, reseller, VPS, WordPress, and application hosting; and dedicated servers. Hostinger not only offers ridiculously good discounts, but its shared hosting packages renew at a cheaper price than the GreenGeeks plans. Hostinger’s most expensive plan is about the same price as GreenGeeks medium plan (without discount). Hostinger Web Hosting
Plan NameStorageBandwidthFree SSLNumber of SitesPriceFree Months
More detailsA free domain name is included with some hosting plans from Hostinger
GreenGeeks Web Hosting
Plan NameStorageBandwidthFree SSLNumber of SitesPrice
More detailsA free domain name is included with some hosting plans from GreenGeeks
2. Features
GreenGeeks’ Shared Hosting Plans Come with Higher Resource Allocations
With Hostinger’s three shared hosting plans, you can host from 1 to unlimited websites, get from 30 GB to 200 GB SSD storage, from 100 GB to unlimited bandwidth, and from 1 to unlimited email accounts. All three packages include weekly backups, Git, a free SSL certificate, a custom control panel, an application installer (100+ CMS apps), and the latest WordPress versions. Hostinger only includes SSH access and daily backups with its Premium and Business plans. GreenGeeks also has three shared hosting plans. Unlike Hostinger, all GreenGeeks’ packages include unlimited SSD storage, unlimited bandwidth, and unlimited email accounts. You can host from 1 to unlimited websites, and all plans come with a free SSL certificate, nightly backups, free CDN, SSH access, Git, WP-CLI, Drush, cPanel, and Softaculous one-click app installer. Check out the following comparison table to further compare Hostinger and GreenGeeks:Hostinger | GreenGeeks | |
Hosting Types | Shared, VPS (Linux and Windows), cloud, WordPress, email, CMS, and e-commerce hosting, MineCraft server hosting | Shared, VPS, reseller, WordPress, and application hosting, dedicated servers |
Free Domain | ✔ (Depending on the plan) | ✔ |
Free SSL Certificate | ✔ | ✔ |
Disk Space | 20 GB – unlimited | 50 GB – unlimited |
Bandwidth | 100 – unlimited | 10 TB – unmetered |
Automatic Backups | ✔ | ✔ |
Control Panel | hPanel | cPanel |
Email Accounts | 1 – unlimited | Unlimited |
Free CDN | ✔ (Depending on the plan) | ✔ |
Free Site Migration | ✔ | ✔ |
Money-Back Guarantee | 30 days | 30 days (except for dedicated servers) |
3. Performance
Hostinger Has Slightly Faster Global Loading Speeds
Hostinger has servers in the U.K., Brazil, the U.S.A., Indonesia, Singapore, the Netherlands, and Lithuania. Alternatively, GreenGeeks only has servers in the U.S.A., Canada, and the Netherlands – giving Hostinger an advantage in global presence. Both Hostinger and GreenGeeks use SSD storage with all plans, which boosts your website’s loading speed and overall performance compared to traditional HDD storage. You’ll get free Cloudflare CDN on all plans from both hosts. A CDN, or Content Delivery Network, is a feature that boosts your website’s loading speed from different locations worldwide by placing it on a network of cloud servers. Both hosts guarantee an uptime of 99.9%. When we tested this promise, both hosts surpassed our expectations and maintained a flawless uptime. When testing the loading speed of Hostinger from different locations (without using CDN), almost all locations showed fast speeds, resulting in a perfect global score. Check out the numbers for yourself in Hostinger’s full review. When performing the same test on GreenGeeks, all locations showed promising numbers except for one. However, this wasn’t enough to bring GreenGeeks down below a perfect global score. You can find the test results in this GreenGeeks detailed review. Both hosts have flawless performance and offer a wide range of performance-boosting features. However, Hostinger wins this round due to its additional server locations and slightly better loading speeds.4. Security
Hostinger has More Advanced Security Features
Hostinger’s security consists of DDoS protection on multiple levels – Wanguard anti-DDoS traffic analyzer and intelligent firewall rules on switch level, BitNinja or Immunity360 (Web Application Firewall) on each server, and custom web server rules. GreenGeeks’ security features, on the other hand, include 24/7 server monitoring, DDoS protection, spam protection, antivirus, antimalware, strong firewalls, and hack protection with all its plans. Hostinger uses CloudLinux OS with all its Linux-based shared hosting plans, and GreenGeeks uses a similar system called Hosting Account Isolation. Both of these systems securely isolate your account from other users on the same server to protect it against threats targeting others. They also ensure that all the server’s resources are allocated fairly among accounts. Both hosts offer no-cost SSL certificates and no-cost automatic routine backups in all their plans. Yet, GreenGeeks performs backups every day, while Hostinger does daily backups only with certain plans and weekly backups for the others. Even though both hosts offer a wide range of security features, Hostinger’s security is more advanced than GreenGeeks, making it the winner of this round.5. Support
GreenGeeks’ Support Has Additional Channels and is More Responsive
Both Hostinger and GreenGeeks have comprehensive and organized knowledgebase sections, including articles and tutorials covering essential topics. Hostinger’s customer support is available 24/7 via live chat and support ticket. However, it can be slow to get connected to a representative. Even though I got the help I needed, it was very time-consuming.![[Hostingers] - [support chat]](https://dt2sdf0db8zob.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/hostinger-vs-greengeeks-1.png)
![[GreenGeeks] - [support chat]](https://dt2sdf0db8zob.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/hostinger-vs-greengeeks-2.png)
Hostinger Wins by a Slim Margin
As you observe, this race wasn’t limited to just one participant. Hostinger and GreenGeeks stand out as two robust hosting providers that present a wide range of hosting plans at remarkably budget-friendly rates suitable for individuals as well as small to medium enterprises. They’re both featured in our expert list of the best web hosting services. Nevertheless, Hostinger defeated GreenGeeks in the pricing, performance, and security rounds, earning it the winning title of this battle.Hostinger
GreenGeeks
Plans and Pricing
More plans. Cheaper prices. 30-day money-back guarantee
More expensive package renewal rates. 30-day money-back guarantee
Key Features
Free domain (with specific plans), free website migration (with specific plans), limited SSD storage, free SSL, custom control panel, and up to unlimited email accounts
Free domain, free website migration, unlimited SSD storage, free SSL, cPanel, and unlimited email accounts
Performance
More server locations, free CDN, 99.9% uptime guarantee, no downtimes, slightly faster loading speeds
Fewer server locations, free CDN, 99.9% uptime guarantee, no downtimes, slightly slower loading speeds
Security
Wanguard anti-DDoS traffic analyzer and intelligent firewall rules on switch level, BitNinja or Immunity360 on each server, custom web server rules, CloudLinux OS, weekly/daily backups (depending on the plan)
24/7 server monitoring, DDoS protection, spam protection, antivirus, antimalware, strong firewalls, hack protection, Hosting Account Isolation, daily backups
Support
Comprehensive knowledgebase, 24/7 live chat and support ticket, low responsiveness
Comprehensive knowledgebase, 24/7 live chat and email, phone support available during working hours, high responsiveness