How we check offers
Every listed term comes from an official public provider page. We do not estimate missing prices or invent promotions.
What is included
- We retrieve public pages only when robots.txt allows it.
- We record the source URL and capture time with every record.
- A term is listed as current only when the latest source check reconfirmed that exact record.
How pages are ordered
Provider grids follow the configured source-list order. Offer cards and comparison rows follow the captured record order in the latest dataset. Homepage examples require current records with an established renewal rate above the initial rate. We group them by currency, billing unit, and service label. If any explicitly identify a first-month rate, only those records are eligible for the example group; otherwise all eligible records are considered. We choose the group with the most eligible records; ties use alphabetical currency, unit, and label order. Up to three records from that group come first, ordered by the larger numeric change within each record; equal changes use the record identifier. The remaining positions, up to nine cards in total, follow stored record order, excluding those examples. The example count is recalculated for each published snapshot. Initial terms and plan resources can differ, so the examples do not establish equivalent plans or an amount a buyer would save. These display orders are not recommendations, quality rankings, price rankings, or value rankings.
Current service labels
Each captured record keeps one existing HostDealRadar service label. These labels describe the captured service type; they are not provider claims, performance scores, or recommendations.
- Web hosting: Hosting intended for a website; this is a service label, not a performance tier.
- VPS hosting: Virtual private server hosting.
- Colocation: Space, power, or related services for customer-owned hardware.
- Dedicated hosting: Dedicated server hosting.
- Reseller hosting: Hosting sold for resale to clients.
- WordPress plugins: A WordPress plugin or plugin membership, rather than a hosting plan.
- Application hosting: A platform for running or deploying an application.
- Email hosting: A hosted email service.
- Domains: The generic domains label used by existing capture rules.
- Hosting: General hosting where the current record does not carry a narrower service label.
- Managed WordPress hosting: Hosting whose captured record identifies managed WordPress service.
- Managed cloud hosting: A managed cloud-hosting service.
- Web hosting and deployment: A record that combines website hosting and deployment.
- Frontend cloud platform: A platform focused on hosting or deploying frontend applications.
- Domain registration: A record that identifies a domain registration service or price.
- Website builder: A service for building and publishing a website.
Limits: some existing labels overlap, including Hosting and Web hosting and Domains and Domain registration. Labels vary in specificity and do not establish matching resources or performance. They remain unchanged. Homepage examples use a shared label to narrow the selection, which does not make the plans equivalent. Definitions follow the first appearance of each label in the stored records, not a ranking.
What happens when a source cannot be checked
- If a source is blocked, challenged, or unclear, we publish no new offer for it.
- Records captured earlier are kept as clearly labelled earlier records with their original capture time.
- Earlier records are not shown as current offers and are not published as current price data.
- Expired promotions are labelled expired and are never shown as a current offer.
What to verify before purchase
Confirm checkout total, tax, eligibility, billing term, and renewal amount with the provider. A captured offer is not a checkout test or a performance review.