We're a small editorial team in Istanbul, publishing honest tests of hosting, VPNs and AI tools since 2019. No paid placement, no sponsored 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.
Six 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. The Hostinger review in our top of mind was 45 days of WooCommerce orders.
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 sponsored-roundup offer. Wrote a public post about it. Subscribers doubled in three months. The lesson stuck.
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 by 41% and reduced annual hosting + plugin costs by $470.
96k monthly readers, 11.4k newsletter subscribers, four full-time editors. Still independent, still small, still ad-free.
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 Turkish 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.
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