Green Geeks was founded in 2006 by Trey Gardner, the current CEO.

Today, the company trades under the company name of Green Geeks with Trey Gardner as the CEO. The company is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA with offices in Toronto, Chicago and Los Angeles.

The mailing address is 1158 26th St. #446, Santa Monica, CA. 90403, USA.
Green Geeks has about 7000 customers in 40 countries around the world and hosts somewhere in the region of 6,000 domains. Its data centres are co-located in Chicago at the SingleHop data center and lease the servers from this Green Grid Datacener.

The host uses a Linux platform and offers shared and reseller web site hosting services, and is considering offering dedicated hosting in the near future.

GreenGeeks.com has won plenty of awards honouring its position as the best green host available.

The company is best known for providing hosting that’s ‘300% green’. This is achieved by replacing 3 times the energy used with wind power. To that end, GreenGeeks.com have created a partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Green Power Partnership. 

Green Geeks is also well known for having a very ‘hands-on’ CEO. Trey Gardner answers a lot of customer inquiries or complaints and has been interviewed several times over the last year on industry sites and blogs.
The host is used as the online presence for the well known Drupal for Dummies book.