About Hostoholic
Why this exists, what is on it, and the decade of history behind the domain name.
Last updated 17 August 2026
Hostoholic is an independent hosting comparison site, a small set of free website tools, and a provider database that anything else here is built from.
Why this exists
Search for "best web hosting" and you will find page after page of near-identical lists, ordered by whoever pays most. The scores are unexplained, the prices are often years out of date, and every provider is somehow excellent.
That is a solvable problem. Publish the criteria. Publish the weights. Publish the dates. Say plainly when something has not been checked. Then the reader can evaluate the reasoning instead of trusting the conclusion.
What is here
A provider database. Capability data recorded against sources and dates, which drives every shortlist, comparison and recommendation on the site. Change a fact and the rankings change.
Free tools. Who hosts a site, a real website health check, DNS and SSL lookups, a technology fingerprint and a speed test. No signup, no email harvesting. They exist because we needed them.
Guides. Written to answer one question properly rather than to hit a word count.
About the domain
hostoholic.com is not a new domain. It ran a web hosting directory from 2002, and later a hosting blog — a lineage of about a decade before it lapsed. This is a new site under old ownership, and we have deliberately stayed in the same subject area rather than repurposing the name for something unrelated.
Where old URLs had a genuine modern equivalent we redirect them. Where the topic is obsolete — FrontPage hosting, ColdFusion, colocation directories — those URLs return a clean 410, because pretending a page still exists is worse than admitting it is gone.
Who runs it
Hostoholic is operated by EverLabs Software Ltd, a UK company. Get in touch if you have a correction, a question, or something you would like us to test.