About Us
What is HostScore?
HostScore.net is a web hosting review and research platform founded by Jerry Low in September 2019. It helps website owners compare hosting providers through hands-on testing, regular uptime monitoring, practical feature analysis, and more than 20 years of website-building experience.
HostScore™ is our proprietary rating system. It combines five weighted factors: price, performance, features, customer support, and user experience. This gives readers a broader view of each provider instead of judging a hosting service by price or specifications alone.
How Does HostScore Test Web Hosting?
HostScore evaluates hosting performance through direct testing and ongoing monitoring. We measure Time to First Byte (TTFB), uptime, performance under load, network latency, and Core Web Vitals (full methodology here).
We use different tools for specific parts of the testing process:
- UptimeRobot and in-house built system monitor the availability of our test websites at regular intervals.
- Bitcatcha measures server response times and latency from multiple locations.
- Loader.io, LoadView, and LoadFocus.com simulate concurrent traffic to show how hosting servers perform under load.
- WP Benchmark measures WordPress server, database, memory, and file-system performance.
- WebPageTest, GTmetrix, and Google PageSpeed Insights measure page-loading performance and Core Web Vitals.
Using several tools helps us examine hosting performance from different angles. A server may respond quickly during a basic speed test but slow down when traffic increases or requests arrive from distant locations.
How Does HostScore Help You Choose a Web Host?
HostScore turns performance results into reviews, comparisons, and practical recommendations. Our Web Hosting Finder (homepage) matches your website type, expected traffic, budget, and priorities with suitable hosting options.
We also publish hosting guides, maintain regular uptime records, compare plan features and pricing, and provide free tools such as the Web Hosting Checker and Hosting Cost Calculator. Readers who need more help can request a free hosting consultation or hands-on setup assistance.
HostScore does not sell web hosting. We help you understand the available options, compare their trade-offs, and choose a hosting service that meets your website’s requirements.
Our Beliefs & Value
Knowledge and Transparency are the twin pillars behind everything we do.
We believe that all consumers have the right to real information and knowledge before they spend their hard-earned money on any product. We also believe in giving web hosting companies the opportunity of an impartial review process.
In the course of our work, we as a third-party also believe that we owe both our readers and web hosting service providers complete transparency in order to lend weight to our findings. Our integrity is of the utmost importance to us as without trust, there is no success.
The HostScore Team
Working in a connected world has enabled HostScore.net to effectively pull together talent from all over the world. This efficiency has resulted in a very small team being able to achieve significant results. Team HostScore relies on communication and experience to seek and offer the best results to you, our readers.
Jerry Low
Founder & Owner
Web hosting industry veteran Jerry Low has immersed himself in web technologies for over a decade and has built many successful sites from scratch.
He is a self-professed geek who has made it his life’s ambition to keep the web hosting industry honest and offer consumers as much information as they need to make informed buying decisions on web hosting and related solutions.
Connect with Jerry on LinkedIn.
Jason Chow
Head of Marketing
For each successful article posted on HostScore, countless hours are spent on research and marketing.
Chow has the man behind at least half of those hours as he seeks the best way to boost readership reach using everything from keyword research to marketing skills. Chow is also the man behind our Outreach Program, seeking to establish links and partnerships with similarly reputable sites.
Connect with Jason on Facebook.
Timothy Shim
Research & Content
Meeting the challenge of turning raw data into legible words, Shim is the author behind much of what you read on HostScore.
An experienced researcher, writer and editor, he follows the trails established by Low and relentlessly turns web hosts over and around in his search to find every advantage (or disadvantage) they have.
Connect with Timothy Shim on LinkedIn.
Grace Tay
Developer
Grace Tay is our resident developer who is a mathematician turned code diver. Her skills are primarily in Java, Objective-C, and PHP.
Today she has turned her focus to web technologies and specializes in WordPress. The transition drives her a little nuts sometimes and she bangs out issues on her drums (thank God she has that hobby)!
Connect with Grace on LinkedIn.
Our Partners
The most important factor that HostScore is based on is that our readers are our #1 partners. You are the main reason for our being since HostScore is dedicated to providing everyone with a rating system which is as transparent as possible for everyone’s benefit.
For this reason, all our users have the opportunity to have their views on a host weigh in as part of the scoring system represented by HostScore. We encourage you to participate for the benefit of your fellow netizens.
Commercial Partners
To support our activities we also have commercial partners. These are the companies listed here who encourage sites like this to prove that they offer products and services which are superior to the competition.
Companies we work with are typically involved in web hosting or associated products and services.
Technology Partners
HostScore has and will continue to work with leading names in the web technology space. These partnerships may take the form of technology and skills exchange, shared services, or even on occasion simple meet and greets for community updates.
Strategic Partners
Not all test sites we monitor belong to us. As such, we engage with strategic partners who offer us access to their sites so we can use them in our scoring system. This helps to ensure that we can cover as many hosting companies as possible without the need to maintain accounts in every single one.
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