Affiliate disclosure
HostCompass earns commissions from some of the hosts we link to. Here is exactly how that works and the rules we hold ourselves to so it never bends a recommendation.
HostCompass is free to read and funded by affiliate commissions. When you click certain outbound links to a host and then buy a plan, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. This disclosure is written to satisfy the U.S. FTC's guidance and, more importantly, to be straight with you. Last reviewed 2026-09-10.
Which links are affiliate links
Outbound links to a host go through a /go/ redirect and are marked as sponsored. At the time of writing we have affiliate relationships with SiteGround, IONOS, Hostinger, A2 Hosting and Namecheap. Each affiliate link is labelled inline near where it appears, and every host-recommendation section carries a sponsored-link note. Links to anything else — a documentation page, a standards body, a local host we don't monetise — are ordinary links and earn us nothing.
The picks that pay us nothing
Some of our strongest recommendations earn us zero. When a local host is the fastest or most compliant answer for a country — MilesWeb in India, Krystal in the UK, an Australian or Canadian independent — we recommend it and say plainly that it has no affiliate program with us. The same goes for infrastructure clouds like AWS, Google Cloud, OVHcloud and Hetzner. We keep those recommendations precisely because a location guide that only pointed at hosts that pay would be useless.
Rules we hold ourselves to
A commission never buys a ranking. We rank by datacenter reach and honesty about latency, and we won't move a host up or remove a true caveat because it pays. Commission rates don't decide order. Prices and regions are dated because they change, and if a recommendation stops being right we change it, paid link or not. If you ever see a claim here that doesn't match a host's own page, tell us at [email protected] and we'll fix it.