At Hostvix, we’ve built everything around three core values: impartiality, honesty, and transparency. Your trust is everything to us. That’s why we’ll always be upfront about how we test hosting providers, how we write our reviews, and how this site is funded.
Every hosting provider you see on our site has gone through our in-depth review process. That means you can make hosting decisions with confidence, knowing that our ratings are based on our own real-world testing, analysis, and experience—not marketing promises.
We don’t cut corners, and we don’t play favorites. Here’s what we stand by:
- We will never accept money to review a hosting provider.
- We will never accept money to change a review or rating.
- We will never accept money to ignore a flaw or issue.
- We will never accept money to bias our research, guides, or investigations.
Our commitment is, and always will be, to our readers first.
Our Business Model
So, how do we keep Hostvix free to use while dedicating time and resources to testing hosting providers?
Like many independent review websites, we earn referral fees (also known as affiliate commissions) from some of the hosting services we recommend.
Here’s how it works: if you click a link on our website that leads you to a hosting provider’s site, and you then sign up for one of their plans, we may receive a commission for sending you their way.
What’s crucial is this:
- Referral fees are arranged only after a provider has been fully tested and reviewed. Our editorial team works independently, and the results of our reviews are not influenced by money.
- Our review and testing team is firewalled from our partnerships team. Hosting companies do not and will not ever dictate our ratings, rankings, or recommendations.
- The compensation we receive may affect how providers are displayed on certain paid comparison pages (for example, those accessed via search engine ads). These are always separate from our editorial content.
Why We’re Open About This
We know that the hosting industry can be murky. Too many review sites gloss over flaws, write generic content, or let affiliate deals dictate their recommendations. That’s not how we operate.
By being upfront about our business model, we want you to understand exactly how we work and how we stay independent. Our goal is simple: to be the most reliable, transparent, and useful hosting resource online.
Trust starts here—and we intend to earn it every time you visit Hostvix.