About Hosting Cost
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Who it's for
- New readers evaluating our credibility
- Site owners choosing a host
- Journalists and researchers citing this site
This about Hosting Cost page explains, defines, compares, and de-jargons every part of web hosting — for anyone choosing, setting up, securing, migrating, or troubleshooting a website’s infrastructure — without being tied to any single provider’s interests.
About Hosting Cost: Our Mission
Web hosting is full of overloaded terms, marketing-driven pricing pages, and advice that quietly serves an affiliate commission rather than the reader. Our mission is the opposite: total-domain coverage of hosting, written with one consistent point of view — neutral, testing-led, and decision-useful — regardless of which provider a reader ultimately chooses. We’d rather a reader leave with a clearer understanding of what they actually need than with a click toward whichever host pays the most.
About Hosting Cost: Editorial Independence
This is the core of how Hosting Cost operates: no pay-for-placement, ever. No provider, past or present, has paid for a mention, a ranking position, a “best of” inclusion, or favorable treatment anywhere on this site. Our editorial guidelines formalize this commitment in detail. Our testing methodology explains exactly how we form the opinions behind our comparisons and recommendations.
The Hosting Cost Editorial Team
Coverage on Hosting Cost is deliberately split across two editors. Each is responsible for a distinct layer of the hosting domain, so that every major sub-topic has a genuinely qualified byline behind it.
Marcus Feld — Infrastructure Editor. A former data-center systems engineer who spent a decade racking and running bare-metal and VPS fleets, Marcus owns the types of web hosting taxonomy, server & infrastructure concepts, and web hosting security — the “what’s actually happening on the server” layer, and how to keep it safe.
Elena Novak — WordPress & Managed Editor. A WordPress developer and site-migrator who has moved hundreds of sites between hosts, Elena owns WordPress hosting, setup guides, and migration — the “get it running and move it safely” layer.
About Hosting Cost: What We Don’t Do
We don’t run “best of” lists ranked by commission rate. We don’t accept payment for a mention, a higher position, or a positive review. We don’t publish anything designed to funnel a reader toward a specific provider regardless of fit. In this ranking-only phase of the site, there are no affiliate links, offers, or “buy now” calls to action anywhere. Every page is written purely to inform a decision, not to close one.
How to Reach the Hosting Cost Editorial Team
Every guide is bylined, and every byline links to the editor’s full profile. If you have a correction, a question about our methodology, or want to know more about how a specific piece of content was researched, start with the relevant author page or our editorial guidelines.
For how we actually form our conclusions and comparisons, see how we test and review hosting. For the foundational explanation of the entity this whole site is built around, see what web hosting is.