Yes, hosting guest posts are accepted, and the useful ones come from people who have migrated real sites. Readers want honest detail: real downtime, real renewal pricing, what really moved Core Web Vitals. Sysadmin-only benchmarks and vendor marketing with a byline get declined. Pitch a hard-won hosting lesson from someone who knows where the bodies are buried, not a specs table.
Hosting is one of those topics where most of the content online is written by people selling hosting. If you run hosting, work in it, or have migrated enough sites to know where the bodies are buried, our readers want to hear from you.
Short answer: yes, hosting guest posts are accepted, and the useful ones come from people who have actually migrated sites. Real downtime, real renewal pricing, what genuinely moved Core Web Vitals. Benchmarks that only make sense to a sysadmin, or vendor marketing with a byline, will not. One contextual link back to your own site is fine.
I’m Lilach Bullock. This blog reaches business owners, marketers and agencies who run websites but are not sysadmins. They care about speed, uptime, cost and not losing their site. They do not care about benchmarks that only make sense to a developer.
What We’re Looking For
Hosting content that helps a business owner make a decision they will not regret:
- Honest hosting comparisons, including the trade-offs the vendor pages skip
- Migration guides that account for what actually goes wrong
- Site speed and Core Web Vitals: what moves the number and what does not
- Managed versus unmanaged versus VPS, explained for a non-technical owner
- WordPress hosting specifics, caching, staging, backups
- Security, uptime and what a real SLA is worth
- Hosting costs: what you actually pay after the renewal price kicks in
Specific beats general every time. Real migrations, real numbers, real failures.
Also accepting guest posts on technology and SEO.
What We Don’t Accept
- Vendor marketing with a byline on it
- Content published elsewhere
- Affiliate round-ups with no real testing behind them
- Anything written purely for a link, with no value to the reader
What You Get
- Exposure to an engaged audience of business owners and marketers
- A quality backlink from an established domain
- Author bio with a link back to your website
- Social media promotion across our channels
How to Submit
All guest post submissions go through our main submission page. Please read the full guidelines first:
If you would like to reach a broader marketing audience, you can also write for us, or see the full list of blogs that accept guest posts.
What a strong hosting pitch looks like
Most hosting content is written by people selling hosting, which is why most of it is useless. The pitches that get accepted here come from people who have actually migrated sites, broken things, and fixed them.
A weak pitch says “I would like to write a guide to WordPress hosting.” A strong one says “I moved a 3,000-post WordPress site off shared hosting and here is what broke, what it cost, and what I would do differently.” One is a brochure. The other is worth reading.
The angles that get accepted fastest
- A real migration, with the timeline, the downtime and the things that went wrong
- Honest cost breakdowns including the renewal price nobody mentions
- What actually moved Core Web Vitals on a real site, and what did nothing
- Managed versus VPS versus shared, explained for someone who is not technical
- How to tell whether your host is the problem, or your site is
Who reads hosting content on this blog
Business owners who have a website but no sysadmin. They care about four things: is it fast, is it up, what does it really cost, and will I lose my site. They do not care about benchmark charts that only make sense to a developer.
Write for the owner who has just been told their site is slow and does not know whether that is the host, the theme, or the 40 plugins.
Formatting that gets published without edits
- A short intro that states the problem, no throat-clearing
- Descriptive H2s, one idea each
- Short paragraphs, plain English, explain any term a non-technical owner would not know
- Real numbers where you have them: load times, costs, downtime
- One contextual link to your own site where it helps the reader
- Disclose any commercial relationship with a host you mention. Undisclosed vendor content does not get published
Hosting questions our readers actually ask
Is managed WordPress hosting worth the money for a small site. Why did my host quadruple the price at renewal. Do I need a CDN or is that overkill. How do I move hosts without losing my rankings. What happens to my site if I miss a payment. Is a VPS too much for a business with 5,000 visitors a month. If you can answer one of those properly, from experience, pitch it.
Frequently asked questions
What hosting topics do you accept guest posts on?
Honest comparisons, migration guides, site speed and Core Web Vitals, managed versus VPS, WordPress hosting specifics, security and uptime, and the real cost of hosting after renewal pricing. Written for a business owner, not a sysadmin.
Do you accept hosting affiliate content?
Not as editorial. If the piece exists to push an affiliate link it will not be published as a guest post. Real testing and a disclosed relationship is a different conversation.
What word count do you publish?
1,500 to 3,500 words is the sweet spot for editorial. Under 1,200 rarely justifies the editorial time.
Can I include a backlink?
One contextual backlink to your own site or a relevant resource is fine in an editorial post. More than that reads as link-driven rather than reader-driven.
New here? Read the full guest post guidelines before you pitch. We also accept guest posts on SEO.
Related reading: Hootsuite Marketing Strategy: How They Built a Brand That Wins and Squarespace Marketing Strategy: How They Built a Brand That Wins.
For the bigger picture, see my full guide to content marketing.
