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Four programmes, one honest comparison

Four ways to earn, and which one suits you

Affiliate commission, white-label reselling, referral credit or the agency partner tier. They suit genuinely different situations, and picking the wrong one costs you money, so here is the comparison without the sales gloss.

  • Affiliate, best if you have an audience and no wish to support customers
  • Reseller, best if you already manage client sites and want the margin
  • Referral credit, best for happy customers recommending us casually
  • Agency partner, best above roughly 25 client sites, with volume pricing
99.99%
Uptime SLA, with credits
47
Global locations
< 15 min
Support first response
60 sec
Average deployment time
kryohost@edge — deploy
$ kryo deploy --plan nvme --region auto
→ picking closest edge… fra-01
→ provisioning NVMe volume… done
→ issuing TLS certificate… done
→ warming LiteSpeed cache… done
✔ live in 58s TTFB 61ms  
On every plan, including the cheapest

The four programmes at a glance

You can run more than one. There is no exclusivity clause.

Affiliate

Up to $120 per sale with a 90-day cookie. No support obligation, no upfront cost, paid monthly.

Reseller

White-label WHM from $14.99/mo. You set prices, own the relationship and keep the whole margin.

Referral credit

$25 account credit to you and $25 to them. For customers who recommend us in passing.

Agency partner

Volume discounts up to 35%, a named account manager and priority migration scheduling.

No exclusivity

Combine programmes freely. Resell to clients and take affiliate commission on public content.

Real partner support

A named manager above 20 sales a month or 25 client accounts, reachable directly.

Side by side, no asterisks

Which programme fits your situation?

The honest comparison, including the effort column most partner pages omit.

AffiliateResellerReferral creditAgency partner
Earning modelPer sale, up to $120Your margin on every account$25 credit each wayVolume discount up to 35%
You support the customerNoYesNoShared
You set the priceNoYesNoPartly
White-label brandingNoYesNoYes
Upfront costNoneFrom $14.99/moNoneNone
Effort requiredLowHighVery lowMedium
Income ceilingMediumHighLowHigh
Best forCreators & publishersAgencies & freelancersExisting customersEstablished agencies

Choosing between the four, honestly

Partner pages tend to present every programme as excellent. They are not equivalent, and the difference is mostly about how much work you are willing to absorb in exchange for margin.

Choose affiliate if you have attention but not clients

You write, film or teach, and people act on your recommendations. You do not want to become anyone's support desk. The affiliate programme converts that attention into income with no ongoing obligation, you place the link, we handle everything after the click. The ceiling is real but moderate: even a strong month is a few thousand dollars unless your audience is very large.

Choose reselling if you already carry the support burden

If your clients already call you when their site breaks, you are doing the support work without the hosting margin. Reselling captures it. You buy capacity at wholesale, sell it at your price, and the client relationship is yours entirely. The economics work from about the fifth client and improve steeply. The cost is that you are now genuinely the support desk, including at inconvenient hours.

Choose referral credit if you are simply a happy customer

You are not building a business around this. You mentioned us to a colleague and they signed up. Both of you get $25 in account credit. No dashboard to check, no payout threshold, no tax paperwork. It is deliberately simple and deliberately small.

Choose the agency tier once you pass about 25 sites

At that scale, reselling means managing infrastructure, billing and support for a real book of clients, which some agencies want and others emphatically do not. The agency tier gives you volume pricing of up to 35%, a named account manager, priority migration scheduling and consolidated billing, while we remain the technical backstop. You keep the client relationship; we keep the pager.

A note on tax

Affiliate and referral earnings are income and are your responsibility to declare in your jurisdiction. We issue statements for every payout and, where required, the appropriate tax forms. If you are earning meaningfully, talk to an accountant before the amounts get interesting.

Support that answers the question you actually asked

Support is where hosting companies quietly differ most, and where the difference is hardest to evaluate before you buy. Every provider claims 24/7 availability. Far fewer will tell you who is on the other end at 03:00 on a Sunday, how many tickets that person is holding, or what percentage get resolved without being escalated into a queue you cannot see.

KryoHost staffs Linux system administrators across three timezones. There is no offshore first line whose job is to send you a knowledgebase link and close the ticket. Our commitment is a first response inside < 15 min on anything service-affecting, escalating automatically to on-call if that is missed. When something does need a second pair of hands it moves to a named senior engineer and you are told who owns it, not dropped into a silent queue.

What is included, and what is genuinely out of scope

Being clear about scope up front prevents the most common support frustration: discovering after an incident that the thing you assumed was covered never was.

RequestIncludedNotes
Server, network and platform faultsYesAlways our responsibility, always free
Migration from another hostYesUnlimited sites on standard control panels
Email deliverability (SPF, DKIM, DMARC)YesWe configure the records and verify alignment
SSL installation and renewalYesAutomatic for free certificates, assisted for third-party
CMS core, plugin and theme updatesYesOn managed WordPress plans
Malware cleanup after a compromiseYesOne free deep clean per year, per account
Performance triage and cache tuningYesWe will tell you honestly if the fix is in your code
Writing or debugging your application codeNoWe will point at the failing query or function
Custom theme and design workNoAvailable through our partner network
Third-party SaaS integrationsNoWe support the server side of the connection

Support reaches you through live chat, tickets and email, and (on business and VPS plans) a scheduled screen-share call when something genuinely needs a live conversation. The same standard of engineer answers at any hour, which matters more than it sounds when you are describing an intermittent fault under pressure at two in the morning.

Billing, guarantees and cancellation

Billing should be the least interesting part of your relationship with a hosting provider. It becomes interesting only when a provider uses it as a retention mechanism, automatic multi-year renewals, cancellation flows hidden behind three menus, refunds that require a phone call during business hours in a timezone you do not live in. We have deliberately built ours to be dull.

  • Cancel from the panel: one button in your client area. No ticket, no phone call, no "let me transfer you to retentions".
  • Pro-rata credit on upgrades: move up mid-cycle and the unused portion of your current term is credited automatically.
  • Renewal reminders: 30, 14 and 3 days before any charge, with the exact amount stated in the email.
  • No hidden setup fees: the price on the plan card is the price at checkout, before tax.
  • Free data export: a full account archive on request at any time, including after cancellation, for 30 days.

We accept cards, PayPal, bank transfer and major cryptocurrencies. Invoices are issued with full tax details for business accounts, and annual billing carries a genuine discount rather than a discount against an inflated monthly rate.

On the SLA: 99.99% availability is measured monthly at the network edge, excluding scheduled maintenance announced at least 72 hours in advance. Fall below it and you receive service credits automatically, you do not have to notice, calculate and claim. An SLA that requires the customer to police it is not much of a commitment.

The infrastructure behind KryoHost Earn with KryoHost

Every conversation about earn with hosting eventually comes back to hardware, and for good reason. You can tune a stack endlessly, but you cannot compensate in software for a disk that is queueing, a CPU that is oversubscribed four times over, or an upstream carrier that routes your visitors halfway around the planet before delivering the first byte. KryoHost builds from the metal upward precisely because the metal sets the ceiling on everything above it.

Our our partner programmes fleet runs on dual-socket AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon Scalable nodes with ECC memory, paired exclusively with enterprise NVMe drives in RAID-10. There is no SATA tier hiding behind the marketing copy, and no "NVMe-accelerated" wording that quietly means a small cache in front of spinning disks. NVMe changes the character of a server rather than simply making it faster: random read latency drops from milliseconds to microseconds, so the database queries that dominate page-generation time on content sites, YouTube channels and client recommendations stop being the bottleneck. In our own benchmarks, moving an unchanged WordPress install from a SATA SSD node to an NVMe node cut median time-to-first-byte by 38% without a single line of code being touched.

Capacity planning is the unglamorous half of the story. We cap node density well below what the hardware could theoretically carry and we alarm on sustained CPU steal, disk queue depth and memory pressure rather than waiting for customers to open tickets. When a node crosses its threshold, new provisioning stops on that node and workloads are rebalanced. That is why the phrase "the server was fine, your site is just heavy" is one you will not hear from our team, if steal time is climbing, that is our problem to solve, not yours to absorb.

Network, peering and routing

KryoHost operates across Tier-III and Tier-IV facilities in 47 customer-selectable countries. Each core site is multi-homed across at least three Tier-1 carriers and connected to the dominant regional internet exchange, so traffic reaches your visitors through the shortest sensible path rather than the cheapest available one. Blended transit is convenient for a provider and mediocre for a customer; direct peering costs more and is the reason a visitor in Nairobi does not have their packets tour Europe before they see your homepage.

  • Redundant power: N+1 UPS with diesel generators tested under load monthly, not merely started and logged.
  • Redundant cooling: hot/cold aisle containment with N+1 CRAC units and independent chilled-water loops.
  • Redundant network: no single upstream carries more than 40% of a site's traffic, so losing one is a re-route, not an outage.
  • Physical security: biometric access control, mantraps, 24/7 on-site security and 90-day CCTV retention.
  • Independent audit: facilities hold SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certification, with reports available to enterprise customers under NDA.

The practical effect of all this is measurable rather than decorative. Our published 99.99% uptime SLA is backed by service credits, and our public status page records every incident, including the ones that lasted four minutes and that nobody noticed. A provider that only publishes its good quarters is not publishing anything useful.

KryoHost versus typical programmes with long lock-in periods

Comparison tables written by vendors are, unsurprisingly, favourable to the vendor. The useful version is one where the criteria are things you can independently verify after you sign up rather than adjectives. These are the questions worth asking of us and of anyone else you are considering.

Question to ask any hostKryoHostTypical budget host
Is the renewal price published next to the intro price?Yes, on every plan cardUsually buried in the cart
Is the storage NVMe end to end?Yes, RAID-10 NVMe onlyOften SATA SSD with an NVMe cache
Are backups included, and can you restore them yourself?Yes, twice weekly, self-service from the panelFrequently a paid add-on
Is there an SLA with service credits?99.99% with credits"99.9%" with no remedy defined
Is migration free and unlimited?YesFree for one site, then billed
Are soft limits published in the terms?Yes, with numbersVague fair-use language
Can you reach an engineer, not a script?Yes, 24/7Tiered queue, escalation on request
Does it cost anything to leave?NoMigration-out fees are common

We are not going to pretend KryoHost is the cheapest option in every row of every comparison, because it is not, and a claim like that is trivially disproved. What we will claim is that the price you see is the price you keep paying, that the resources on the plan card are the resources you receive, and that nothing on this page has a footnote contradicting it.

Earn with KryoHost terminology, decoded

Hosting vocabulary is unusually good at making simple ideas sound complicated, and occasionally at making limited products sound generous. Here is what the terms on a earn with hosting comparison page actually mean in practice.

TermWhat it means in practice
Unmetered bandwidthNo hard transfer cap, but a fair-use policy applies. Normal sites never approach it; a file-distribution service will.
Unlimited storageUnlimited for ordinary website files. Backup archives, media libraries and mail spools usually have separate soft caps in the terms.
NVMeFlash storage on the PCIe bus rather than a SATA cable. Several times the throughput and a fraction of the latency of a SATA SSD.
vCPUA virtual core mapped to a physical thread. A dedicated vCPU is reserved for you; a shared vCPU competes with neighbours.
TTFBTime to first byte, how long the server takes to start answering. The clearest single indicator of hosting quality.
LiteSpeedA web server that is API-compatible with Apache but handles concurrency with an event-driven model, plus a built-in full-page cache.
Object cacheA memory store (Redis or Memcached) holding query results so the database is not asked the same question repeatedly.
CDNA network of edge servers caching your static assets close to visitors, cutting both latency and origin load.
SLAA contractual uptime commitment with defined compensation. Without service credits attached, it is a marketing number.
Soft limitA threshold that throttles rather than stops you. Read these carefully, they are where "unlimited" actually ends.
CageFSPer-account filesystem virtualisation. It is what stops one compromised account on a shared node reading another's files.
Steal timeCPU cycles your VM wanted but the host gave to someone else. Persistent steal time means the node is oversold.

If a provider will not define its soft limits in writing, treat that as the answer. Ours are published in the Terms of Use, in plain language, with the numbers included.

Asked before you buy

Frequently asked questions

Still unsure? Our team answers pre-sales questions 24/7, usually in under 15 minutes.

Yes, and many of our best partners do. A typical agency resells hosting to its clients under its own brand while also earning affiliate commission from tutorial content aimed at a wider audience. The only restriction is that you cannot claim affiliate commission on a customer you also host as a reseller, since you are already earning the margin on that account.

Reselling, by a considerable distance, if you already manage client sites, you control the price, capture the whole margin and the customer relationship compounds. It is also the highest effort, because you become the support desk. Affiliate is the best return per hour if you have an audience. The agency tier is the best of both once you pass roughly 25 client sites, since you get volume pricing without becoming the first line of support.

The affiliate programme, referral credit and agency tier are free. Reselling requires a reseller plan from $34.99/month, because you are buying the infrastructure your clients sit on. There are no application fees, revenue commitments or minimum volumes on any of them.

Provisioning is automatic and normally completes in under 60 seconds. You receive your control panel login, nameservers and connection details by email the moment the referral is live. Orders paid by bank transfer activate once the payment clears, which usually takes one to two business days.

Yes. Upgrades within the same product family are applied in place, take effect within minutes and are billed pro-rata against your remaining term. Downgrades take effect at your next renewal date, provided your current usage fits within the smaller plan's limits. Moving between product families (shared to VPS, for example) is handled by our migration team at no charge.

It is, with no limit on the number of sites for standard control-panel migrations. Our team handles the copy, verification and DNS cutover, keeps your existing site serving traffic throughout, and retains a rollback copy for 14 days after the switch. Complex custom-stack migrations are quoted individually, and we will tell you before any work starts if yours falls into that category.

You are notified by email well before anything is enforced, with the specific metric and figure included. Brief spikes (a post going viral, a promotion landing) are absorbed rather than punished. Only sustained overuse leads to throttling, and we will always propose a right-sized plan before that point. Nothing is suspended without prior written notice except in cases of active abuse.

Every domain and subdomain on every plan gets a free DV certificate, issued automatically at setup and renewed automatically for as long as the site is hosted with us. Paid OV, EV and wildcard certificates are available if you need a warranty, organisation validation or a single certificate covering unlimited subdomains.

We operate in 47 customer-selectable countries across Europe, Asia, North America, South America, Africa and Oceania. You pick your region at checkout, and you can relocate later at no cost. Choose the region closest to the majority of your visitors, it is the single cheapest performance improvement available to you.

Our published SLA is 99.99% measured monthly at the network edge, and it is backed by automatic service credits rather than a claims process. Historical uptime, including every incident and its duration, is on our public status page, the bad months are there alongside the good ones.

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Not sure which one fits?

Tell us what you do and roughly how many sites or how much audience you have. We will tell you which programme earns you more, including when the answer is the one that pays us less.

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