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We’re a small editorial team publishing honest tests of hosting, VPNs and AI tools since 2019. Sponsored slots are always labeled and never affect our rankings — no shortcuts.
tuto.digital exists because we got tired of “best of” lists that rank whatever paid the most that quarter.
We started in 2019 as a side project: one writer, one WordPress install, and a Hostinger plan paid out-of-pocket. The goal was simple — write the hosting review we wished existed when we were buying.
Seven years later we’re still small (4 full-time, 3 contributors) but the rules are the same. Every product we cover is paid for at retail. Every recommendation passes a 30+ day live test. Every affiliate relationship is disclosed in plain language.
If we’re ever caught cutting corners on any of this, please tell us. Publicly is fine.
Anyone can claim editorial independence. Here’s what ours looks like in practice — written in operational terms, not marketing copy.
Every product we review is purchased at the public price — credit-card receipts on file. We never accept free units, press accounts or “preview” access from vendors.
Synthetic benchmarks lie. We migrate a real WordPress site, run real traffic, log support response times, and only then publish. Our Hostinger review ran 45 days of live WooCommerce orders before a word went up.
If a link makes us money, the affiliate disclosure on every page says so. We publish commission ranges, not vague language. Three product reviews we’d be paid the most for are not our top picks.
One writer, one Hostinger plan, one WordPress install. First review: the SiteGround vs Bluehost comparison — still in our top 5 traffic sources.
Hired Merve Karaca as senior privacy editor, expanding from hosting into VPN reviews. Methodology document published the same year.
Declined a $48k offer to buy a top spot in a “best of” roundup. Wrote a public post about it. Subscribers doubled in three months. Sponsored slots are fine — buying a ranking position isn’t.
Added AI tool reviews when GPT-4 became the standard. Ahmet Yıldız joined to lead the AI vertical, running quarterly benchmarks across 240 prompts.
Rebuilt the site on a leaner stack: Elementor Pro, no 3rd-party plugin bloat. Cut load times sharply and trimmed our annual hosting + plugin bill in the process.
96k monthly readers, 11.4k newsletter subscribers, four full-time editors. Still independent, still small — now part-funded by a handful of clearly-labeled partner slots, kept out of our rankings.
Small, opinionated, and accountable. Each editor signs the reviews they write — bylines are real names, with photos.
Joined 2019 (the founder). Tests WordPress and WooCommerce hosting. Previously infrastructure engineer at a European e-commerce platform.
Joined 2021. Leads VPN and privacy coverage. Reviewed every major consumer VPN at least twice. Background in security research at a Berlin startup.
Joined 2023. Runs the AI tool desk. Built the quarterly 240-prompt benchmark we use to score chat models. Previously ML engineer at a fintech.
One honest change since we first wrote these: we now run a few clearly-labeled sponsored partner slots in our busiest sections (VPN, hosting and AI hubs) to help fund the upkeep that keeps the project running. They’re bought, always marked “Sponsored,” and — exactly as the red lines above promise — kept out of every ranking and score. We still run no banner-ad networks; just a handful of flagged partners.
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