Last updated: May 2026
Our Relationship with Hosting Companies
BlogZenn participates in affiliate programmes run by web hosting companies, domain registrars, and related services. This means that when you click a link on this site and subsequently make a purchase, BlogZenn may receive a commission from the company you bought from. This commission comes at no additional cost to you — you pay the same price whether you click our link or navigate directly to the provider’s website.
How Affiliate Income Affects Our Reviews
It doesn’t — or at least, it isn’t supposed to, and we take this seriously. Here’s how we prevent commercial relationships from corrupting editorial judgement:
- All accounts are independently purchased. We buy our own hosting accounts and pay for them ourselves. We do not accept complimentary plans, sponsored reviews, or paid placements.
- Scores are fixed before links are added. A host’s rating is determined by testing results alone. We add affiliate links afterwards — the commission rate does not factor into the score or ranking.
- Higher commissions do not equal higher scores. Some of the providers we rate most highly pay lower commissions than competitors we score poorly. You can verify this by comparing our scores against publicly available affiliate rate information.
- Negative findings are published. If a host has poor uptime, slow support, or aggressive renewal pricing, we say so — regardless of whether we have an affiliate relationship with them.
Which Companies We Have Affiliate Relationships With
We currently have affiliate arrangements with, among others: Namecheap, SiteGround, Kinsta, WP Engine, Cloudflare, and Porkbun. This list changes as we add new reviews. We do not maintain a live list of every affiliate relationship, but any page containing affiliate links includes a clear notice at or near the top.
UK and EU Legal Compliance
This disclosure is provided in compliance with the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) guidelines on endorsements and reviews, and the EU Unfair Commercial Practices Directive. Under these rules, material connections between a reviewer and a commercial entity must be clearly disclosed. We believe this page, combined with in-article notices, satisfies that requirement.
Questions
If you have questions about our affiliate relationships or editorial process, please contact us at alex [at] blogzenn [dot] com.