Pricing
All prices on Tinkernotes are quoted in GBP, against a verification date stamped on each review or calculator.
- Renewal price first, intro price second. Where a vendor charges one price for the first term and a higher price for renewal — which most managed hosts do — the renewal price gets the headline placement. Intro offers are noted but never lead.
- Day-of-check FX conversion. For vendors without a GBP storefront (some US-based hosts and SaaS), prices are converted from USD or EUR to GBP using the spot rate on the day of verification, with the rate and source logged.
- Vendor pages are the canonical source. Pricing is taken directly from the vendor's own pricing page, not from third-party aggregators, comparison sites, or affiliate dashboards.
Update cadence
All commercial content — reviews, calculators, comparison pieces — is reviewed at least once per quarter. Pricing changes are folded in, the last-updated date on the article is changed, and any new alternatives worth flagging are added.
Verification is currently a manual pass against vendor pricing pages. A scripted version that flags price drift between manual checks is in development; it'll replace the manual workflow once it's reliable.
What "verified" means
When a review or calculator says "verified [date]":
- The vendor's own pricing page was loaded on that date.
- The visible price (intro and renewal) was recorded against the plan name and the currency shown.
- Where a price was converted from another currency, the FX rate was noted along with the source.
- Any caveats — minimum-term commitments, hidden setup fees, currency-of-billing restrictions, region-locked plans — were checked and noted in the body of the review.
What I look for in a hosting or platform review
Each review answers, at minimum:
- What does this actually cost in GBP at renewal, on the plan that matches the use case?
- What's included in the plan, and what's an add-on that catches people out at month 12?
- Where are the data centres, and do they include UK or EU regions?
- What's the support quality for technical questions, not billing ones?
- Who is this not for? — every review has a "skip this if..." section.
- What's the closest alternative at the same price point, and when would I pick it instead?
Corrections and disagreements
If something on this site is wrong — outdated pricing, a missing caveat, a misread of a vendor's terms, an unfair comparison — please email hello@tinkernotes.io. Corrections are made publicly. The change and the date are noted on the article.
Affiliate relationships
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