Best Web Hosting Affiliate Programs
Updated on 5/1/2016
Affiliate programs are a great way to make money with your blog. Basically, it works like this: Someone visits your website, you recommend a product, they buy it, you get a share of the sale. Web hosting is a huge and competitive industry, and many companies are willing to pay lots of money, some more than $100 per sale!
There are several factors when it comes to choosing the best web hosting affiliate program – pricing, reliability, and the quality of the host. Here are the 10 best web hosting affiliate programs (in no specific order):
Best Web Hosting Affiliate Programs 1. Crucial Hosting ($10 – $3,000)
CrucialHosting.com tops the list with the best payouts, commission options & hosting service out there. Commissions start at $10 and go up to an industry leading $3,000 for a single sale. You can select 100% of the first month’s payment or 10% monthly commission for the life of the account. The “Crucial Cash” custom control panel allows you to create discount coupon codes, custom URL’s, graphics and even the ability to create ad campaigns for tracking your affiliate marketing.
Not your typical “cookie cutter” host, Crucial Hosting has been creating performance hosting solutions since 2006 and provides these services for a wide range of products priced from $10 a month for shared hosting to a maximum of $3,000 for high end dedicated hosting environments, making for easy conversions. Crucial Hosting’s affiliate program offers a very high income potential, and if you refer a customer who buys a dedicated server you could earn thousands of dollars for a sale. They are also a very professional hosting company, with a great reputation on the web. Sign up for an affiliate account at Crucial Hosting!
Best Web Hosting Affiliate Programs 2. Siteground ($50-125)
Siteground has a similar affiliate system to HostGator, but seems to be of a better quality.
As one of the highest quality web hosting companies out there, Siteground deserves a place in the best web hosting affiliate programs list. It’s payout structure is same as that of Hostgator. Previously, SiteHround was ranked #8, but after personally testing the program, SiteGround is now one of my most recommended web hosts. SiteGround has extremely friendly support – go on chat to ask. Their affiliate program is more competitive – you need an application and (in my case) the affiliate manager even asked me questions by email before I was approved. The conversion rates are very high (good income potential).
Best Web Hosting Affiliate Programs 3. iPage ($105)
Best Web Hosting Affiliate Programs 4. Bluehost ($65)
Best Web Hosting Affiliate Programs 5. Hostgator ($50-125)
Who doesn’t want an extra $2625 per month? Hostgator’s affiliate program can be pretty lucrative.
Wow – why $50-125? Because the more sales you make, the more money you get paid per sale. At $125, that’s more than all the other affiliate programs, and if you have many sites or great methods to achieve 21 sales per month, you could $2625 that month!
Best Web Hosting Affiliate Programs 6. Hostmonster ($65)
Best Web Hosting Affiliate Programs 7. Dreamhost ($97)
Dreamhost offers great payouts at $97 per sale plus $5 per sale for your referral’s sales.
Best Web Hosting Affiliate Programs 8. Inmotion Hosting ($50-100 + $5-25 Bonus)
Inmotion’s affiliate program looks great!
We love all things about affiliate programs. I have found that joining a bunch of quality affiliate selling platforms earns fantastic amounts of money than only marketing on just 1 affiliate program. What works best for you, a little or a lot? I
Hi Connie,
Really, it depends on the website and blog. But I’d recommend promoting only 1 product in each niche.
Ryan
Thanks for this list of Affliate Program. im going to use hostgator on my website.
Dont Use hostgator they didn’t give commision
Hostrica.com offers Instant Commission for web hosting affiliate.
Thanks for information. I add hostrica on my blog.
Thank you admin sharing this for this list of Affiliate Program.
No Problem. Glad you enjoyed the post!
Hi Ryan,
You forgot to mention the best hosting affiliate ever ” A Small Orange. Even your referrals will be pleased by their amazing customer service and tech support . They are the best in business.
Hey Anish,
I’ve looked into ASO and they do seem to be quite good! (Especially with their support).
Looks like they’ve increased their affiliate payings as well.
Hey Ryan,
I recently joined iPage affiliate program. But I got lot of negative reviews of their affiliate program, such as they don’t pay sometimes or don’t count valid sign ups. Can you please help me with that?
Hey Raakib,
The EIG hosts (I listed them in the article) sometimes miscount signups – I’ve heard that they could not count half of your signups. In this case, I’d say that promoting Siteground may be a better choice – they’ve got great support and I’ve been paid successfully by them.
Ryan
Hello, what are the criteria of categorising the Siteground 9th? The are better than others that are before them on your list.
Hey John,
I recently tried out the Siteground affiliate program and was very happy with it – I’ve categorised it as 1st now.
We’ve had some problems with Inmotion regarding our affiliate commission. Our experience is that they do track and show you clicks in your dashboard but conveniently forget to credit your sales.
I know for a fact that the sale came through because we have been setting up the bloggers wordpress themes and plugins and had suggested the move.
I wonder how many such sales that should have been credited were not due to their tracking mechanism failure.
I have emailed them. Let’s see how they resolve it.
Hm, that’s concerning. I’ve heard that some hosts deliberately miscount referrals to decrease how much they have to pay. I hope they pay you in the end – they should do so if you show them some proof.
So they came back with this reply
” Our system shows that another affiliate received credit for this sale. Your referral must have went to another affiliate website after clicking on your affiliate link, causing your affiliate cookie to be overwritten. ”
We train bloggers and know for a fact that the sale came through our affiliate link. I have emailed them back. This feels just terrifying.
That’s terrible! Could the affiliate have accidentally clicked on another affiliate link before signing up?
Anyways, I’d recommend you try the SiteGround affiliate program instead. I know that they always count signups honestly and I got paid successfully too.
This is a somewhat scary trap. Even if you know that their explanation is not acceptable or a plain lie, it is almost impossible for you to prove that and you easily lose a commission! Totally horrifying!
So far SiteGround seems very positive to their affiliates and their site’s affiliate section is very helpful and welcoming. However, before choosing them I would like to know more about Arvixe hosting as their payout is higher and I’ve read good reviews about them on another blog.
I’ve been suspecting InMotion of cheating me on affiliates sales for some time. I have sent more traffic to InMotion than any other host and I’ve still yet to see one sale while I’ve converted others without a problem. I emailed them 3 times over the course of a month and recieved no responses. When at first their affiliate Manager Sevag was very responsive.
I have also noticed that InMotion tracking doesnt last very long it’s definitely not cookied like the other web hosts.
The unresponsiveness paired with that makes me think their affiliate program is designed to just make them money and not affiliates.
Nice list ..
Sure I will promote few of them on my blog.
great list i will tryout one of them. thanks for the list and nice blog
I have am using dreamhost affiliate program. Want to try bluehost and siteground. Siteground is first on my try list.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Nice comparison and very useful information. I recently joined the affiliate program at https://rosehosting.com and I must say they have one of the best VPS affiliate programs I have ever seen. The bonuses are huge and that motivates me to engage my readers. Thanks.
have you ever paid by ipage ?
Hey Bari,
I have not. Look around the web, and you’ll see many people’s payment proofs along with those saying that iPage scammed them.
Ryan
Wow, such a great overview ,Ryan! I have noticed that more and more people are interested in affiliate marketing , that’s why we can easily explain their popularity growth! I am templatemonster.com affiliate , and I can advice this type of marketing to each of you who works in the web design and development niche! It is easy to promote the best templates on the net and to earn 50% commission! Ready to share my experience!
Affiliate program is a great way to earn money i must try to use hostgator on my website. Thanks Ryan for sharing this great idea.
Hello Ryan!
That’s really an eye-opening article… You went for siteground; I’ll try that out! Thanks.
Thank you for this post; this post helps me to know about web hosting affiliate programs.
Hi Ryan!
Thanks for sharing, I’ve personally tried Bluehost and I’ve received my 1st payout. They have high conversion rate as they have good reputation and customers are more likely to by from them. I also started promoting DreamHost and SiteGround.
As an ipage customer i really recommend you to try it, even their affiliate service is so awesome and perfect for those who want this kind of programs 🙂
thank you for this great list Ryan 😉
Simple Servers have just launched their affiliate program. They are Magento and WordPress hosting specialists and are paying out up to £35 per sale. They seem to have great reviews.
https://www.simpleservers.co.uk/the-simple-affiliate-scheme
but hostgator is bad for me , because yesterday they cheat me and erase my data from impactradius and also erase my 200$. what i do can any one help me ?
Sadly this is typical proble when they scam their affiliates.If they will do this more and more it will be good sign that Hostgator coupany is sarts to go down.
Nice and informative article. Thanks for sharing. I am planning to start HostGator affiliate program. Just
a quick question. For amazon affiliate, we have a condition that if we won’t make a sale in first six
months after registration they will cancel affiliate link. Is there any condition in Hostgator?
yes vikas you have to earn 2 sales plus 250$ in 90 days.otherwise balance is nulled.thankyou
Nice post !!! i Want to know are you working on any hosting affiliate
Wow! Great list… thanks for sharing it 🙂
Hi Ryan,
are you aware of JavaPipe’s affiliate program? I think it’s worth mentioning because they offer niche specific web hosting solutions, such as Tomcat hosting and DDoS protection, which might be easier to target for affiliate marketers than “normal” web hosting.
The article is so much informative. The article is help beginner
ipage.com is a real scam.
That bastards never going to pay you.
In Feb 2016 i made 2 successful sale.I have earned 210$ for to referrals. Even after 2 months they didn’t pay.I contacted the affiliate support team.After a series of conversation they send me a mail.The Mail message is
“You have not been approved as an affiliate and therefore, you will not be paid affiliate commission. Thank you for your understanding. ”
Ass holes,They i did i have an account?i made tow sales.Find this image
http://s32.postimg.org/h5nbcg7d1/FUCKING_IPAGE_AFFILIATE.jpg
THEY NEVER PAY YOU.DONT USE THEM.
Hey Ryan,
Can you check this ? Cloudwith.me – we tried to create simple cool Aws solution…
Thanks a lot ! Rachel
Thank you for sharing top affiliates details. I was not aware of CrucialHosting before. Just signed up now.
I want to inform you that Ipage doesn’t pay any of the commissions, in case you wanna edit your article dropping them out and adding some companies referred above in the comments. It’s a scam! There are 100 of visitors around there who has been waiting for their commissions since years including me. Anyways great post. Cheers!!!
And in case anyone wants to know more about these hosting companies before they sign up with them. You can quickly surf into: Choose the right one
And check out my latest article: Siteground vs Ipage
@Ryan
Thanks for the review i personally use hostgator as it provides the highest affiliate commissions in the hosting industry.
Keep Updating
Regards
Aditya
Host Gator said that my site doesn’t have enought traffic… 🙁
Amazing post, i get a clear idea about which sites include in my strategy (just hostgator keeps out)
Haa finally somebody made that list ! 😀 Thanks dude it was helpful in narrowing down the clutter. 🙂
Great list and super helpful. I’ve started using the bluehost affiliate program in the past few months and have made a few hundred dollars through it already. Starting to work with SiteGround and iPage as well.
This is a very good information on how to use webhost affiliate programs. A right campaign can surely get you the right bucks. Thanks for the share
Bro An excellent post you have wrote .
it makes A clear Idea about all best Host provider hosting commissions. Now I heard that IPAGE are fraud. They often Does not pay accurately. IS it Correct Plz Reply………..
Hey Ryan,
Thanks for recommendation.
As far as Affiliate Marketing concern its all about niche but really web hosting is a good idea for affiliate marketing?
1 red card to hostgator and 2 to ipage. Never waste your time with these two morongos.
I use bluehost.in hosting affiliate it give 4000 INR and host1plus hosting it give upto 150$
Hostgator is scaming affiliates.Month ago they stole from me 3 month payment and just kick me out of the program because i started to make good money there.Sad to say that but hostgator is scam for affiliates because in the payment section they stole money from affiliates every month and you just wonder how it is possible that somone buys hosting for 198$ and the payment for affiluate is overdue or inactive.If the Hostgator will do this for the long term they will go down 100%.Also service from them also not so good anymore because the speed of the website while hosting website on hostgator is down so you will not be in good standing in search engine.Sadly!
yeah do not promote host gator. You will be lucky to see any money from them
Thank you for your list of web hosting affiliate programs. This article is informative. Can you recommend the best one that is most reliable? I’m planning to start earn money with web hosting affiliate program but I don’t know which one I should choose.
the Bluehost affiliate program via CJ have been producing decent results for us.
Great written article! i will start the affiliate program immediately! thank you very much for this wonderful post.
The article is help beginner. This is a very good information on how to use webhost affiliate programs. A right campaign can surely get you the right bucks.
Great Article Bro !!
What’s Your Advice About Wp-engine ??
I made 22 sales in a two month for bluehost and of course day before first payment i got message -Your “dejanu” account has been permanently removed- Why???? Same day i got similar message from hostgator.Why???? I used few PTC sites for promoting my reflinks and now i`m very angry.But people did anyone read their terms of usage??????I didn`t til now. Remember -only way to get commisions is to promote them on your own site!!!!!!No adwards no google,no facebook etc.
Hello Ryan,
Your article about making money through “Web Hosting Affiliate Programs” is awesome. The list of these 10 Web Hosting Websites really amazing, personally I use some these to generate revenue. Your blog post is very informative for me and other bloggers too, now I can opt for high paying Web Hosting Affiliate Programs.
Thanks to share this precious information with us.
thank’s for the post
ipage affiliate is big scam. They dont pay affiliate commission. They don’t reply to any of your queries also.ipage and fatcow are one and the same. fatcow also does not pay affiliate commission. Be Careful before signig up.
Awesome article Ryan! I appreciate that you list the most of the companies with their affiliate program price. You did a great job! Best of luck for future posts.
I have been searching online on how to make money on affiliate programme.Thanks for the information am going to try this out.
What do you think about AccuWeb Hosting. They have a recurring commission and they have a high rate of retaining clients.
I will totally agree with you. Accuweb Hosting retaining rate is high. I have been getting recurring commission even of the clients signed up more than 3 years back. Recently they also updated their affiliate program and added bonus for multiple signups. You guys should check it out.
Thanks for the info, starting out and this will be great to implement!
Very nice list of hosting affiliate programs, but I am surprised not to find Cloudways in it, because they also have an awesome web hosting affiliate program with which their affiliates can earn upto $4,140 per month, Cloudways also give a straight bonus of $25 when a referral first signup’s and becomes a paying customer, the best of all is the 10% recurring commission per year for each paying referred clients.
Hi Ryan,
From my blog I am promoting web hosting of Bluehost but Today I found few of other good affiliate programs of hosting. Thank you for adding all of those web hosting affiliate programs.. 🙂
Awesome collection.But from where to get all these affiliate program at a same place?
great post we thank you for that kepp up
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Thanks for sharing this informative article on the subject and affiliate program in my opinion is the best way to Make Money Online.
I know one can earn money as web hosting affiliate.
I just sold one siteground plan and made $50 and now I’m learning more to do this work nicely, because since I’m blogging almost one year 10 months, I was selling only amazon products and making decent amount of money with only one way.
Now I’m exploring more ways, which can help me to earn more.