Affiliate disclosure

CloudCrest is funded by affiliate commissions. When you click certain links to a hosting provider and later sign up, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. This is standard for review sites, and US Federal Trade Commission guidance requires we disclose it clearly — which is what this page does.

How our affiliate links work

Every affiliate link on CloudCrest routes through a /go/ redirect and is marked as sponsored, so you always know when a link may earn us a commission. We currently work with, or plan to work with, the affiliate programs of Cloudways, DigitalOcean, Kinsta, Hostinger and ScalaHosting. Commissions vary by host and are typically a one-time payment or a small share of what the referred customer spends; a couple of these programs pay a recurring percentage. None of that is visible to you, and none of it costs you anything.

Why it doesn't bias our rankings

We rank hosts on the cloud they run on, how much they manage, how they scale, how they price and how good the support is — never on what they pay. The strongest proof is what we recommend that pays us nothing: AWS, Google Cloud and Azure run no affiliate program, and we still tell you to go direct to a hyperscaler whenever that's genuinely the better call. We also flag when a host, such as Hostinger, pays us nothing on renewals while renewals are the number that matters. Our best cloud hosting ranking would look identical if every affiliate program disappeared tomorrow.

Pricing honesty

All prices are advertised rates read on a dated day and are usage-based starting points, not guaranteed bills; we tell you where a plan meters and, for promo-priced "cloud" plans, we show the renewal, not just the intro. We don't publish speed or uptime figures we didn't measure. If any of that ever slips, email [email protected] and we'll correct it.