About ProvenWPHosting

ProvenWPHosting exists because most hosting reviews are rewritten sales pages with affiliate links attached, in a category where the truth is directly measurable. Our answer is a bench: identical WordPress sites on the hosts we review, scripted performance checks, and scores that come from a published methodology rather than from commission rates.

Who writes this

Michael van der Horn builds and operates RankFlywheel, an SEO automation platform, and runs the infrastructure behind it daily: production VPS servers, nginx configuration, deploy pipelines, and the WordPress and static sites they serve. That matters for a hosting review site in a specific way. The failure modes these reports weigh, cold starts, PHP worker exhaustion, checkout latency under load, migration downtime, are ones an operator meets in production, not ones copied from a vendor comparison chart.

The conflict of interest, handled

This site earns affiliate commissions from some hosts, and its operator also makes RankFlywheel and ProvenSEOTools, two properties promoted in the "Grow your site" section. The rules that keep this honest are fixed: commissions never set a score, owned properties are always labeled as ours and carry no affiliate tracking, and the disclosure page states every material connection in one place.

Contact

Corrections, host suggestions, and vendor inquiries: use the contact details on the disclosure page. Vendors cannot buy a review, a score, or a placement.