How we check deals

An offer is only as trustworthy as the evidence and the timestamp behind it.

1. Discovery

Automated workers search for hosting providers, read their public product pages and extract candidate offers. Nothing they find is published automatically: a person reviews new providers and offers, and anything the robots weren't sure about stays in a review queue.

2. Checking

Published offers are re-checked on a schedule: featured and popular offers roughly every 6–12 hours, other active offers daily, and stable low-traffic offers every few days. Each check records what we saw, even when nothing changed, so “unchanged” and “not checked” are never confused.

• Last checked is when we last visited the offer page, whatever the result.
• Price observed is when we last saw that exact price and term.
• Verified means the price or coupon was confirmed on the provider's own page during a recent check.
• Provider claim marks specifications we've taken from the provider without independent confirmation (for example “no-logs” policies or warranty amounts).
• Price needs rechecking appears when our last successful check is older than our freshness window (72 hours) or a check gave an uncertain result.

3. What a failed check means

A timeout or a block from a provider's site isn't proof an offer has gone. We keep the last known data, label how fresh it is, and retry. We only mark an offer unavailable when the provider's page says so or the page has been removed on two consecutive checks.

Prices, currencies and renewals

We show prices in the provider's currency with the billing term next to them. Different terms are never merged into one number. For sorting across currencies we also compute an approximate USD-per-month figure from a dated reference exchange rate; it's labelled as an approximation.

Limits

Prices can change between our checks, taxes depend on where you live, and some offers are only available to new customers. If you spot something wrong, please report it — every report is reviewed.