GreenGeeks vs HosterSale: Which Is Better?
We track GreenGeeks and HosterSale prices, uptime and specs 24/7. Here's the live head-to-head for October 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 HosterSale| HosterSale at a Glance | |
|---|---|
| Services | Shared cPanel hosting, WordPress Care, WHM reseller, dedicated servers, cloud VPS, domains |
| Shared hosting from | $1.25/mo on a 1-year term ($1.99 month-to-month) |
| Stack | cPanel, LiteSpeed, NVMe storage |
| Renewal | Same as the sign-up price (HosterSale's own claim) |
| Money-back | 30 days on hosting plans |
| Cloud VPS | 1 to 16 vCPU on NVMe, monthly, priced per region; 20 TB traffic in Europe |
| Locations | Cloud VPS: 6 locations in Germany, Finland, the USA and Singapore; dedicated: Germany and Finland |
| Domains | 54 extensions with published prices |
| Support | 24/7 live chat, WhatsApp and tickets |
HosterSale sells cPanel web hosting on LiteSpeed servers with NVMe storage in two lines — four "Cheap Hosting" plans for one site up to unlimited sites, and four "Web Hosting" plans aimed at small businesses and agencies — alongside WordPress Care maintenance plans, WHM reseller packages, dedicated servers, cloud VPS and domain registration. Prices are quoted in US dollars, with a separate rupee storefront under /pk/ for customers in Pakistan.
The prices we track are the storefront's headline figures: the 1-year term for shared hosting and WordPress Care, the monthly rate for reseller packages, cloud VPS and dedicated servers. HosterSale states that renewals cost the same as sign-up, which is unusual in budget hosting, where first-term discounts often end in a much higher renewal. Dedicated servers add a one-time setup fee of $24.99 to $49.99.
The website does not publish a company name, registration number or address. The terms of service (last updated in November 2020) refer to "HosterSale.com", the SLA page to "HosterSale Networks", and the phone contact is a Pakistani WhatsApp number. Company details on this page come from HosterSale's own application to DohoHub.
Cloud VPS plans run in Falkenstein, Nuremberg, Helsinki, Hillsboro, Ashburn and Singapore, with root access, a browser VNC console and dedicated IPv4 and IPv6, and HosterSale says a new server is live in about a minute. They are priced per region: European plans include 20 TB of traffic a month, US plans 1–5 TB depending on the plan, and the same configuration costs more in the USA and Singapore than in Europe. Configurations marked sold out on the storefront are left out of our list until they return. Shared-hosting server locations are not stated anywhere on the site.
The 30-day money-back guarantee covers hosting plans; the FAQ excludes domains, VPS and dedicated servers, and the terms also exclude add-ons and domain fees. The storefront advertises 99.9% uptime, while the SLA page guarantees 99.99% network uptime with service credits — the SLA is the commitment that pays out.
Comparison Table
| Feature | GreenGeeks | HosterSale |
|---|---|---|
| Price / mo | $2.95 | $1.25 win |
| Renewal price | — | Same as sign-up (their claim) |
| Datacenters | 3 | 6 win |
| NVMe storage | ✗ No | ✓ Yes win |
| Free domain | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Backups | — | 1 |
| CDN | ✓ Yes win | ✗ No |
| Support | — | 24/7 chat, WhatsApp & ticket |
| Uptime · 30d | 100.00% | 100.00% |
Price History
GreenGeeks · LiteCollecting price history — the trend fills in as we track this plan.
HosterSale · Cheap Hosting StarterCollecting price history — the trend fills in as we track this plan.
Uptime & Performance
GreenGeeks 100.00% HosterSale 100.00%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
HosterSale- Low entry price: $1.25/mo for one site on a 1-year term, $1.99 month-to-month
- HosterSale says renewal costs the same as sign-up — no first-term-only discount
- cPanel with LiteSpeed and NVMe storage on every shared plan
- Free SSL, free site migration and offsite backups (weekly, daily from the Business plan)
- 30-day money-back guarantee on hosting plans
- Cloud VPS in six locations across Europe, the USA and Singapore, live in about a minute
- No company name, registration number or address published on the website
- Shared-hosting server locations are not stated
- Cloud VPS in the USA and Singapore costs more than the same configuration in Europe
- Dedicated servers add a $24.99–$49.99 setup fee and are unmanaged by default
- The money-back guarantee excludes domains, VPS and dedicated servers
- Two uptime figures: 99.9% advertised, 99.99% network uptime in the SLA
The Verdict
On the data we track, HosterSale wins more rows in the comparison table above (3 vs 1). 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 HosterSale 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, GreenGeeks 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.