It was stated that because we are a green provider that performance and reliability would be inferior to those that aren’t. This is not true at all. GreenGeeks uses the latest server-grade hardware. All of our servers have Xeon processors, DDR3 ECC Registered memory, Hardware RAID arrays. We are powered by the standard energy grid just like everyone else, except that we 1) buy back 3 times the amount of energy consumed by our operations making us carbon negative and 2) Pick hardware made by manufactures that are green.

The downtime statistics appear to be skewed as well. The time in which this article was written and the data that would have been collected would have been the summer of 2012, in which we completed a network wide upgrade of all of our servers — which did require servers to be offline at intermittent periods during a scheduled maintenance period that customers were notified about.

We announced the completion of hardware upgrades a few days before this was posted: (http://blog.greengeeks.com/2012/09/24/increased-performance-reliability/).

We maintain very high standards to our hosting and continue to offer 99.9% uptime along with continuing to upgrade our infrastructure to ensure that customers are getting the best hosting experience possible.

I hope this provides some value to those who read this article.