About ReviewKong

ReviewKong is an editorial project covering the services people buy online — VPNs, travel eSIMs and insurance, web hosting. We do not sell any of them. We compare them, say which one we would buy, and publish the reasons someone might disagree.

What we cover

• VPNs & privacy. Speed, jurisdiction, audits and what actually happens to your logs — the parts the pricing page never mentions.
• Security & data. Antivirus, data-removal and recovery tools — judged on independent lab results and the renewal price, which is where this category does its real business.
• Travel. eSIMs, insurance and booking tools for people who leave the country more than once a year.
• Web hosting. Where a small site should live: renewal pricing, real performance and how painful migration is.

Who writes it

• Daniel Reeves — Privacy & networking editor. Daniel has spent a decade writing about network security and consumer privacy tooling. For this ranking he worked from the documents rather than the marketing: every published audit report in full, the ownership structure behind each brand, the protocol each one actually ships, and the renewal price sitting behind the promotional rate.
• Priya Raman — Security & privacy editor. Priya has covered consumer security software for twelve years, through the period when antivirus stopped being a product you bought once and became a subscription that quietly doubles. She works from the independent lab results — AV-TEST and AV-Comparatives — rather than vendor benchmarks, and she reads the auto-renewal terms, which is where most of the complaints in this category originate.
• Marta Vieira — Travel services editor. Marta has worked remotely from 30-odd countries and has the claim paperwork to prove it. For these guides she compared every plan on its published terms — coverage lists, validity windows, real cost per gigabyte — and read each insurance policy wording end to end, including the exclusions page that decides whether a claim is ever paid.
• Tom Aldridge — Infrastructure editor. Tom has spent fifteen years writing about the infrastructure small sites run on. He compares the plan people actually buy — the second-cheapest tier, not the advertised one — and prices everything at renewal, because that is what you will really pay from year two.

How we rank

Three rules apply to everything we publish. We price products at renewal rather than the introductory rate, because that is the number you pay more than once. We rank on published criteria that appear on the guide itself, so you can disagree with the weighting rather than guess at it. And every ranking carries a list of people who should buy something else — if a product is wrong for you, saying so is the fastest way for us to be useful.

How we are funded

Through affiliate commissions. If you buy something after following one of our links, the company may pay us a referral fee at no cost to you. It does not buy placement: some of the brands we recommend pay us nothing at all, and at least one of them runs no affiliate programme in the first place. The full explanation is on our affiliate disclosure page.

Corrections

Prices and terms in these categories change constantly, and we get things wrong. Every page carries the date it was last reviewed. If something is inaccurate, write to [email protected] and we will correct it and say that we did.