A one-person hosting lab for US WordPress site owners.

Hosting reviews are easy to write badly. Rank whichever host pays the biggest commission, quote the intro price and skip the renewal, run one speed test from one place, and sign it “our team”. Blogger Nova was started to do the opposite, one plan and one test round at a time.

Prices

Usually: The intro price in big type, the renewal price buried at checkout.

Here: The renewal price next to the intro price, from the host's own US page.

Speed

Usually: One page-speed test, run once, from one location.

Here: Response time from three regions for seven days, plus a 50-visitor load test.

Rankings

Usually: An order that happens to follow the biggest commission.

Here: An order set by the test score. A commission can't move a host up.

Freshness

Usually: A "best of" list with no date and no sign of a re-test.

Here: Dated results, re-tested when a plan changes or a result turns 12 months old.

Byline

Usually: "Our team", with no one you can look up.

Here: One named author who answers for every guide.

1. 1

   Start from what readers search

   Each guide answers a real question US site owners type into Google, grouped by the job they're trying to do.

2. 2

   Run the test round

   Every plan in the guide goes through the same 30-day round on the same WordPress test site.

3. 3

   Write from the results

   Picks, prices and limits come from the test log and each host's own pages, linked where we use them.

4. 4

   Fact-check as a separate pass

   The draft is set aside, then every figure is checked against its source as if someone else wrote it.

5. 5

   Publish with a date

   The guide goes live with when it was tested and when it was last updated.

6. 6

   Re-test and correct

   Plans change, so ranked guides are re-tested at least once a year, and corrections are noted on the page.

When you buy hosting through a link on Blogger Nova, the host may pay us a commission, at no extra cost to you. Today those links come from the ChemiCloud and Cloudways affiliate programs, and every program we join is listed in our affiliate disclosure. Hosts can’t pay for a better ranking, and sponsored content is always labeled.

• How we testThe 30-day round, the test site, and how the score is weighted.
• Editorial policyHow topics are chosen, conflicts of interest, and how AI is used.
• Fact-checkingThe sources we accept and the pass every claim goes through.
• CorrectionsHow to report an error and how fixes are shown on the page.
• Affiliate disclosureThe programs we belong to and what a commission can't change.
• Sponsorship policyWhat we accept, what we don't, and how sponsored content is labeled.

Spotted a wrong price or a result that doesn’t match what you see? Tell us the page and the claim; verified corrections go up within 7 business days. Want a host or a problem covered? Reader requests decide what gets tested next, and the more people ask, the sooner it runs.