Affiliate Disclosure

Last updated: August 2026

The Short Version

OnlineHosting.org is a reader-supported publication. Many links on this site — particularly the "Visit" buttons on reviews, rankings, and comparisons — are affiliate links. If you click one and purchase hosting, the hosting company may pay us a commission. You never pay more by using our links; in some cases affiliate pricing is actually lower than the public rate.

What Affiliate Relationships Do — and Don't — Affect

• They fund the site. Commissions pay for testing, monitoring, and writing.
• They do not affect scores. Every rating comes from the public methodology, applied identically to every host regardless of commission rates — including hosts that pay us nothing.
• They do not affect rankings. Category positions are determined by scores. No host can buy a position, and none has ever been offered one.
• They do not affect coverage. We review hosts readers ask about, including ones with no affiliate program.

How to Spot Our Affiliate Links

Affiliate links on this site route through /go/ URLs (for example /go/hostinger/) and carry rel="sponsored" markup. Every page containing them displays a disclosure notice near the top, in accordance with FTC guidelines (16 CFR Part 255).

Our Promise

If we wouldn't recommend a host to a friend with the same needs, it doesn't get recommended here — whatever the commission. If you believe any content on this site fails that standard, contact us.