Affiliate Disclosure
How this site makes money, which links pay us, and why the rankings can't be bought.
BundleStack earns money the standard review-site way: some of the links to providers we review are referral links, and if you click one and buy, the provider pays us a commission. It costs you nothing extra — the price is the same either way. This page itemizes how that works, because a site whose editorial spine is pricing honesty should keep its own pricing on the table.
How /go/ links work
Every referral link on this site points to an internal /go/ address — /go/hostinger, for example — which redirects you to the provider, carrying our referral tag. These links are marked sponsored in the page code, which tells search engines and anyone who inspects the page exactly what they are. We use the /go/ pattern so every paid door in the building is labeled and countable: if a link doesn't go through /go/, it doesn't pay us.
Not every shelf entry pays us
Some of the providers we review and rank have no affiliate arrangement with us at all. They get opened with the same box cutter, scored on the same three-year math, and shelved in the same ranking. A provider's presence, position, or score tells you nothing about whether it pays us — several entries on our shelf earn us exactly $0, and their reviews read no differently.
Commissions never reorder the shelf
Our rankings are built on three-year total cost, verified renewal rates, and documented capabilities — inputs a commission cannot touch. The arithmetic is printed in every review so you can re-run it yourself. When a provider with a referral program earns a harsh verdict, the verdict ships anyway; our HostGator coverage is the standing example. The fastest way for a review site to become worthless is to let a bounty rearrange its math, and we like this site too much for that.
The plain-English summary
We may get paid when you buy through our links. We tell you which links those are. The rankings are driven by receipts, not commissions. If you ever spot a place where those three sentences seem to conflict, email [email protected] — corrections outrank commissions here too.