GreenGeeks vs Rocket.net

Shared Hosting is a type of web hosting service where multiple websites share the same physical server and its resources, such as disk space, CPU, and memory. This setup allows for cost-effective hosting solutions, as the cost of maintaining the server is distributed among all users.

In many cases, there is no difference. Shared hosting is the platform that WordPress operates on. Managed Hosting for WordPress is typically optimized for WordPress users on a shared hosting platform.

Not all situations are the same and it depends on your situation. If you're just starting out and looking to build and host a website, then we recommend our Ecosite Lite shared hosting package. If you're looking to create more than one website, then we recommend our Ecosite Pro and Premium web hosting options. Our shared hosting plans are ideal for small businesses, bloggers, portfolios, podcasts, and more.

GreenGeeks offers fast, secure, and exceptional shared hosting plans at an affordable price. We've been in business since 2009, are a BBB accredited A+ rated business, and are the leading green web hosting provider.

Getting started with your shared hosting account is easy. Simply choose a package, we recommend our Pro plan and follow the sign-up process. Once your account is activated, you will receive a couple of emails with your login information and service activation notification. From this point, you can begin building your website or provide us with your existing website information so that we can transfer it for you.

Yes, we actually offer a free domain name registration or transfer for the first year as part of your hosting service. You will also be able to register many TLDs from your GreenGeeks account.

Absolutely. You will be able to upgrade or downgrade your web hosting account to any of our services by simply contacting us.

Yes, our shared hosting services include free website migration. Our site migration specialists will manually transfer your website files from your current web hosting provider to your new shared hosting account. You will simply need to provide some details about your current web hosting account.

Starting a blog, website, or online store is easy with GreenGeeks. We offer drag-and-drop website builders such as Weebly and SitePad. In addition to this, we offer content management systems like WordPress that will help you build an amazing website, blog, or online store.

WordPress is arguably the World's #1 content management system and go-to website creation tool. Thanks to its open-source community, its easily the best built, maintained, easy to use, and insanely customizable with millions of themes, plugins and tutorials available. You can make just about any type of website with WordPress, such as blogs, digital porfolio's, corporate websites to ecommerce stores. WordPress powers over 30% of the Internet's websites. Some examples are Bloomberg, BBC America,

WordPress is used by 1 in 3 websites worldwide, making it the most popular website content management system by a substantial margin. WordPress users include virtually everyone - from major news and business sites to small businesses and individuals. WordPress is trusted by millions so you can be confident that it's a sensible choice to power your website. You can build a website, a blog, an online store or a combination of them all, plus much more!

It is our secure, high-performance hosting platform which is optimized for WordPress websites, and includes convenient features such as 1-click WordPress installation and automatic updating. We also support advanced WordPress development tools like WP Staging and the command line tools WP-CLI and Git. Our managed hosting for WordPress is perfect for you.

We never charge extra for WordPress security, performance, or support. All of the benefits of our web hosting for WordPress are included in our shared web hosting plans. If you want to reduce your carbon footprint, GreenGeeks is the best home for your WordPress site, since your site's energy consumption will be offset by renewable energy credits. In fact, 300% of your usage is offset! That makes GreenGeeks the most environmentally-friendly managed hosting solution for WordPress available anywher

We use of a variety of high-performance technologies to bring you incredibly fast Hosting for WordPress: SSD hard drives, ultra-optimized LiteSpeed Web Server and MariaDB database servers, PHP 8, HTTP/2, our own custom in-house LSCache technology, CloudFlare CDN, and many more tweaks and enhancements.

It's as easy as answering a few questions and clicking a button. You don't have to download or extract any files, set up a database, configure any connections - it's all done for you in seconds. It couldn't be any easier.

This is the amount of unique visits that hit your WordPress install in a 24 hour period.

WordPress installs or as we call them in Mission Control “Sites” are individual installs of WordPress running on our Platform. Every WordPress install comes optimized and secured out of the gate and takes just under 6 seconds to create.

Absolutely! Feel free to contact us via Live Chat, Email ([email protected]), or Phone (877 374 0764) and we’ll be more than happy to find the right fit for your needs.

Every plan at Rocket.net gives you 24/7/365 access to our amazing support team through Live Chat and our ticketing system. With response times in minutes not hours. All our support engineers are WordPress experts and ensure your problems are taken care of effectively.

Yes! We will migrate all your WordPress sites to Rocket.net for FREE from any hosting provider. 95% of migrations will take under 12 hours and that’s for extremely large websites

We offer 10 locations to choose from in US, Europe and Asia. With our acceleration technology your end users will get amazing performance irrespective of where your site is hosted. Read more about our network by clicking here.

Yes! We provide you with two months free on any plan that is paid for annually. Further discounts available on longer term subscriptions.

Our Platform was built with over 20 years of combined experience in the hosting industry. Our founders have seen WordPress evolve from it’s initial inception to where it is today. With that said, our Platform handles everything you need when it comes to building and maintaining the perfect WordPress website. We have a global footprint with over 275+ locations to serve your content from and built-in Enterprise grade security to ensure your website is safe at all times.

We offer a 30-day money back guarantee on all of our services except for our Enterprise hosting plans. If you’re not satisfied with the speed, security, or anything related to your account we’ll refund your payment with no questions asked. Our service can also be canceled at anytime directly through our portal.

You can upgrade to the next plan or we bill disk space overages at $2/GB and Bandwidth overages at $0.08/GB. Discounts are available if overages are purchased as fixed monthly addons.

Unfortunately no, we specialize in WordPress only.

Rocket.net is partnered with several Edge providers to create our Enterprise Edge. Every site on Rocket.net is pre-configured to utilize our Enterprise Edge with access to 330 edge locations and an Enterprise WAF. To learn more about how Rocket.net is the Fastest WordPress Hosting provider click here.

All sites on Rocket.net’s platform are protected by an Enterprise grade Web Application Firewall (WAF) on the network layer plus a firewall and malware scanner on the server which scans all files in real time. Read more about how Rocket.net keeps your sites secure by clicking here.

At this time we do not offer email service with our hosting. We highly recommend the Google Workspaces services provided at Google for world-class email.