The short version
WebFin earns money through affiliate links. If you click a link to a hosting provider on this site and then buy from them, we may receive a commission. You pay the same price either way.
Which links are affiliate links
Any link that takes you to a hosting provider’s website may be an affiliate link. On this site those links pass through webfin.org/go/ before redirecting, so you can see where a link goes by looking at it.
Links to sources — pricing pages we quote, terms of service, company filings, news articles, third-party measurements — are not affiliate links. When we cite a source, we link to the source.
What we are paid
Commission structures differ sharply between providers. Some pay a fixed amount per sale. Some pay a percentage. Some pay a recurring share for as long as you remain a customer, which can be worth many times a one-off payment.
We are not going to pretend this creates no incentive. It does. Our answer is to publish the criteria we score against and to source every figure to a named source with a date, so that our conclusions can be checked against the same evidence you can see.
We do not rank providers by commission. A provider that pays us nothing can outrank one that pays us the most, and where that happens we are not going to hide it.
Providers we have a relationship with
We apply to affiliate programs after a provider has been reviewed, not before. We do not accept payment for reviews, placement, scores, or inclusion, and we do not give providers advance sight of what we publish about them.
Our own hosting
This site is hosted on Hostinger, which we also review. We pay for it ourselves at standard rates and received nothing from them in exchange for coverage. This is stated again at the top of the Hostinger review.
Questions
If anything about how this site makes money is unclear, ask us.
Last reviewed: 18.08.2026