Affiliate disclosure & editorial policy

Independence first

The short version

progeofde.tech earns revenue from three sources, listed in order of importance to the editorial decision:

  1. Direct client engagements (audits, benchmarks, dashboards, white papers). These are the largest revenue line and are paid for the work, not the verdict.
  2. Affiliate commissions on links to hosting, GPU, CDN, and domain providers. We earn a small commission if you sign up through our link. The commission does not change our recommendation.
  3. Sponsorships on the newsletter (not yet launched). Sponsors do not see editorial content before publication and do not get a "must recommend" clause.

If you arrived here from a "best VPS 2026" search and the page ended with a "sign up" link, that link may be an affiliate link. We tag every affiliate link on the page with a disclosure pill (look bottom-right) so you can see it before you click.

What we do not do

How affiliate links are tagged

Every page that contains an affiliate link shows a fixed disclosure pill in the bottom-right corner. The pill links to this page. We do not hide affiliate links in redirects, anchor IDs, or cloaked URLs.

You can verify our stance: open the page source, search for rel="sponsored" on any link. Sponsored and ugoing links also carry rel="nofollow noopener" where appropriate.

Specific provider relationships

As of 2026-10-15, progeofde.tech has affiliate or partnership relationships with the following providers. This list is updated within 7 days of any change. We publish it because some readers want to know who we are paid by; others specifically look for providers we have no relationship with to triangulate.

Active affiliate relationships

No relationship (as of this date)

For any provider not on the "active" list above, we have no commercial relationship. This includes (but is not limited to): Evoxt, BandwagonHost, Contabo, OVHcloud, IONOS, Hostinger, Kamatera, DigitalOcean tier-2 products, Fastly, Akamai, Mux, ElevenLabs, Modal, Replicate, Together.ai, Fireworks.ai, and any new entrant that signs up after this date.

Editorial corrections policy

If we get something wrong, we fix it at the top of the page with a dated errata line. Vendor reps are welcome to flag issues to our editorial team; corrections are made on the merits, not the relationship. We do not accept payment for corrections.

Where the correction is significant (changes the verdict, changes a price, changes a benchmark), we update the "Last updated" date and add a one-line note explaining what changed and when.

Where the data comes from

All benchmark numbers on this site come from one of three sources, tagged in-line on the page:

  1. First-party measured. We ran the test on an account we paid for. The script, the date, and the raw output are published.
  2. Vendor-published. We cite the vendor's own page, with the date we observed it. Renewal math is computed from this.
  3. Third-party (e.g. RIPE Atlas, public benchmark repos). We cite the source and the date.

We do not invent numbers, paraphrase a competitor's table, or copy a vendor's marketing claim into a "review."