About HostIdea
Who runs HostIdea, why we test hosting ourselves instead of collecting user reviews, and how the site is funded.
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Why HostIdea exists
Most hosting review sites rank hosts by commission, by user star ratings that nobody verifies, or by prose that repeats the host’s own marketing. We wanted a site where every rank comes from a measurement with a date on it.
What we do
We read each host’s terms and price every plan on every billing term, cite independent measurements by name and date, run our own checks, and say plainly what has not been measured yet. Monitoring windows with our own test sites are being added host by host. There are no user reviews and no star submissions on this site.
Who we are
HostIdea is a small team. Our authors and their credentials are listed on the authors page. Placeholder copy until the final team page is written.
How the site is funded
Through affiliate commissions when readers buy hosting through our links. HostIdea is operated by DM Research Labs, LLC. Commissions never change a score or a ranking. See the disclosure for the full picture.