How We Make Money — Disclosure & Independence
Plain talk: we earn affiliate commissions, and that never buys a ranking. Here's the disclosure and the editorial-independence rules we hold ourselves to.
Affiliate disclosure
We earn a commission if you buy through some links on this page, at no extra cost to you. It never changes our rankings: positions are set by our transparent HostingTweaks score, and commission only ever breaks a tie between genuinely comparable options.
How we earn
- Affiliate commissions when you buy through some links. Every outbound link routes through a tracked
/go/redirect. - Pro API subscriptions for our public data API.
Editorial independence (the rules)
- Rankings are set by our transparent score over measured data. Positions are not for sale.
- Commission rates do not feed the score. EPC only ever breaks a tie between two genuinely comparable options — never demotes a clearly-better host.
- A provider having (or not having) an affiliate program does not change whether we list or how we rank them.
- Sponsored placements, if any, are labelled as such and kept separate from editorial rankings.
See also our editorial & correction policies and testing methodology.
Cite this
Our methodology and stats come from our own reproducible, timestamped tests. Free to cite with attribution and a link.
HostingTweaks, "How We Make Money — Disclosure & Independence", https://hostingtweaks.com/trust/how-we-make-money, accessed 2026-08-16.Machine-readable: /llms.txt · API: /api · Live stats: /api/trust/stats