GreenGeeks vs Hetzner: Which Is Better?
We track GreenGeeks and Hetzner prices, uptime and specs 24/7. Here's the live head-to-head for September 2026 — no paid rankings, just the data.
About GreenGeeksGreenGeeks (est. 2008, Agoura Hills, CA) is an eco-friendly hosting provider that matches 300% of its energy use with renewable credits and plants one tree per account. It offers shared, WordPress, reseller, VPS and dedicated hosting from data centers in Chicago, Montreal and Amsterdam, with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
About HetznerHetzner is a German cloud and dedicated-server provider famous for the best price-to-performance in Europe. Where Contabo competes on raw resources, Hetzner competes on network quality, low latency and a polished API — ideal for developers running latency-sensitive workloads.
Comparison Table
| Feature | GreenGeeks | Hetzner |
|---|---|---|
| Price / mo | $2.95 | $1.86 win |
| Renewal price | — | Same as initial |
| Datacenters | 3 | 5 win |
| NVMe storage | ✗ No | ✓ Yes win |
| Free domain | ✓ Yes win | ✗ No |
| Backups | — | Paid |
| CDN | ✓ Yes win | ✗ No |
| Support | — | Ticket 1-4h |
| Uptime · 30d | 99.14% | 99.17% win |
Price History
GreenGeeks · LiteCollecting price history — the trend fills in as we track this plan.
Hetzner · Webhosting SCollecting price history — the trend fills in as we track this plan.
Uptime & Performance
GreenGeeks 99.14% Hetzner 99.17%Pros & Cons
GreenGeeks- 300% green energy match — carbon-negative hosting
- Free domain (1st year), free SSL and free migration on every plan
- Unmetered traffic + generous SSD storage on shared plans
- Nightly backups and real-time security scanning included
- Fully managed VPS with cPanel/WHM and root access
- 24/7 support via live chat, phone and ticket
- Promo prices renew 4–7× higher after the first term
- Only 3 data centers — Chicago, Montreal, Amsterdam
- Self-managed VPS tiers are sales-only (no online checkout)
- Dedicated servers are quote-based with no published configurations
- No cloud, GPU or Windows hosting
- Managed VPS starts at a steep $69.95/mo
Hetzner- Exceptional price-to-performance — among the cheapest x86 VPS in the EU
- 99.9% uptime advertised for Hetzner Cloud (provider claim)
- Full-featured API with Terraform provider and Kubernetes support
- ARM servers (CAX) starting €3.29/mo — cheapest in Europe
- Transparent pricing — no hidden fees, no bandwidth surprises
- 5 datacenter locations: Nuremberg, Falkenstein, Helsinki, Ashburn, Singapore
- Support is ticket-based only — no live chat or phone
- UI/UX less polished than DigitalOcean or Vultr
- No managed databases (must self-manage)
- Limited global footprint — no APAC or LATAM DCs
- No Windows server images available
- Support response can be slow on weekends
The Verdict
On the data we track, Hetzner wins more rows in the comparison table above (4 vs 2). That said, the right pick depends on which rows matter most for your use case — price, uptime, datacenters or backups.
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FAQ
Right now Hetzner has the lower entry price across the plans we track. Prices update every few hours — the live snapshot above always shows the current starting price for both.
Over the last 30 days of our monitoring, Hetzner had the higher measured uptime. We ping both providers every few minutes from multiple locations — see the uptime graph above.
Yes. Both run standard KVM virtualization, so you can snapshot your server, export the image, and import it on the other provider. For most stacks a fresh deploy plus a data copy is simpler.
It depends on your priority: pick the one that wins on the rows that matter most to you in the table above (price, uptime, datacenters, backups). For latency-sensitive apps favour uptime and network; for value favour price and specs.