Who runs the ranking
The ranking is run by Igor Jazov, founder of Tophosting. He has spent 20+ years in web: founded his first web-development agency in 2008, owned Bridge Brand Communications (project management, branding, UX design) and later worked as a project manager at IT companies. Today he builds his own digital products and deploys them himself on VPS and shared hosting.
How we check the data
- Speed. Once a month a bot measures the response time (TTFB) of each host's public website from a single location, three attempts per site. Absolute numbers depend on where you measure from, but the comparison is fair: every host is measured the same way. Results are on the speed tests page.
- Terms. We check the starting price, trial period, money-back period and data-centre locations against each host's own website. The check date sits next to the price on the host's page.
- Reviews. There are over 2,000 of them. New ones are accepted only after Google sign-in, which makes them harder to fake. We don't remove substantive negative reviews.
- Uptime. We don't run our own uptime monitoring yet, so stability is judged from reviews.
How the order is set
A host's score (stars) and its place in the list are set separately. The place is an editorial decision: we look at reviews, speed tests, verified terms, reader interest and whether the host is our partner.
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Spotted a mistake?
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