Advertising & ownership disclosure

This page exists so you can weigh our verdicts knowing exactly how we make money and where our interests lie. It is written to satisfy the FTC's requirement that material connections be disclosed clearly and conspicuously, and our own standard, which is stricter.

Affiliate commissions

ProvenWPHosting participates in affiliate programs for some of the hosts we review. When you click a link marked as affiliate (affiliate links on this site route through our /go/ redirects) and later purchase, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Commissions fund the test sites and benchmark infrastructure this site runs on.

Commission size never affects a score. Hosts we earn nothing from are measured on the same bench and scored with the same rubric as hosts that pay the highest rates, and where staying on a cheap plan is the honest answer, we say so.

Ownership: RankFlywheel and ProvenSEOTools

ProvenWPHosting is operated by the maker of RankFlywheel, an SEO automation platform, and of ProvenSEOTools, a review site for SEO and content tools. Both connections are stated here and in the disclosure note on every monetized page.

Those two properties appear on this site in one place: the "Grow your site" section and the matching band at the end of articles. That is owned-property promotion, not affiliate promotion, and it follows a fixed rule: the properties are always labeled as ours, the links carry no affiliate tracking, and the copy states who each product is the wrong fit for. We promote them because hosting readers usually need traffic next, and we would rather route that honestly than dress it up as an independent recommendation.

How reports are produced

Reports are built on the protocol described in our published methodology: identical live WordPress test sites, scripted performance checks, and a standardized rubric. Where the bench has not yet produced data for a host, the report says so and confines itself to framework judgments built from platform documentation and corroborated operator experience. Research and drafting are AI-assisted; every report is reviewed, fact-checked, and edited by the named author before publication. We do not publish invented statistics, fabricated first-person anecdotes, or claims we have not verified.

What vendors cannot buy

Reviews, scores, benchmark placement, rankings within roundups, or removal of criticism. Vendors are welcome to flag factual errors or point us at documentation; anything we take from a vendor is treated as a vendor claim and credited as such in the report.

Contact

Corrections, host suggestions, and vendor inquiries: hello@rankflywheel.com. Corrections are acknowledged in the affected report, not silently edited.