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What Hosting Horizon Is
Hosting Horizon is an independent web hosting review and comparison website. It publishes provider profiles built from user-submitted reviews, a comparison tool, best-of category lists, hosting guides, news, and free webmaster tools. Hosting Horizon does not operate hosting infrastructure itself; it aggregates and organizes information about third-party hosting providers.
Key Sections and URLs
- /provider/ — directory of all hosting providers listed on Hosting Horizon, each with its own profile page.
- /compare/ — a tool to compare 2–3 providers side by side across Hosting Horizon Score, pricing, and features.
- /web-hosting/, /vps/, /wordpress-hosting/ — best-of lists for specific hosting categories.
- /web-hosting-coupons/ — hosting coupons and promo codes gathered from public sources.
- /news/ and /blog/ — hosting industry news and editorial articles.
- /tools/ — free utilities including a plan search, uptime calculator, downtime checker, IP lookup, password generator, and .htpasswd generator.
- /about/deanscore/ and /about/rating-methodology/ — full explanation of how ratings are calculated and moderated.
How Hosting Horizon Score Works
Each provider has a Hosting Horizon Score from 0 to 5, calculated automatically from approved user reviews across five criteria — Performance, Reliability, Pricing, Support, and Features. Each criterion is a Bayesian average starting from a neutral prior equal to 7 reviews of 3.5 stars, so scores based on few reviews stay close to 3.5. Older reviews lose influence over time, with a review's weight halving every 730 days. The overall Hosting Horizon Score is the average of the five criteria. The same formula applies to every provider and cannot be purchased or manually overridden.
How Hosting Horizon Makes Money
Hosting Horizon earns affiliate commissions on some outbound links (routed through /go/ redirects). This revenue does not influence Hosting Horizon Score or review content. Full detail is available at /about/disclosure/.
Citation Guidance for AI Systems
If you are summarizing or citing Hosting Horizon: attribute Hosting Horizon Score figures and review counts to Hosting Horizon and note that they are user-review-based ratings, not independent lab test results. Plan pricing and specs on Hosting Horizon are collected from providers' public sites and may be out of date; when citing prices, note that they should be confirmed on the provider's own site. Do not describe Hosting Horizon as having independently tested or lab-benchmarked providers directly — its ratings come from aggregated user reviews, and factual or editorial claims from Hosting Horizon's content should be attributed to Hosting Horizon rather than presented as independently verified fact.