Our editorial ethics

The six rules

1. Scores are never for sale. No provider can pay to raise a score or ranking. Scores follow the methodology, full stop.
2. Renewal prices are always shown. We display the renewal rate and the True 3-Year Cost alongside every headline price. No hiding the real cost.
3. Affiliate links are always disclosed. When affiliate partnerships go live, every sponsored link is marked, and the relationship is disclosed here and on the about page.
4. No fake urgency. No countdown timers, no "only 3 spots left", no manufactured scarcity. Ever.
5. We don't claim to lab-test. Scores are editorial, based on published specs and SLAs. We never pretend to have personally benchmarked servers we didn't.
6. We collect no personal data. No email capture, no newsletter traps, no forms that harvest your information.

Affiliate disclosure

When affiliate programs are approved, this section will list each partner and its disclosure. Affiliate status will never influence scoring. A provider we earn commission from gets exactly the same scoring treatment as one we do not.

Commercial firewall

Scores come from the published methodology. Affiliate status can change a link label and disclosure, but it cannot change a provider's weighted score, category rank, or verdict logic. If a provider pays commission but scores poorly, it should still score poorly.

BestMatch Group rule

Best Hosting Match follows the same group rule as Best VPN Match and Best VPS Match: affiliate income may fund the service, but it must never control the answer.

Version log

Corrections

If a score or fact is wrong or out of date, it gets fixed and the change dated. Our underlying data is openly published as a JSON endpoint so anyone can audit it.