TopRanked.io Weekly Affiliate Digest: What’s Hot in Affiliate Marketing [Hosting.com Affiliates]

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Hey there, affiliates.

Normally, when people ask you to “save the kids”, it usually involves you paying money.

This week, I’m going to teach you how to “save the kids” while making a pretty penny at the same time.

You in?

Great, read on.

Topranked.io Affiliate Program of the Week — Hosting.com Affiliate Program

Before we get to saving the kids, you’re going to need a solid affiliate program to monetize with.

This week, that program is Hosting.com (Formerly A2 Hosting).

Here’s why you’ll love Hosting.com.

Hosting.com Affiliate Program — The Product

There’s no secret about what Hosting.com is all about.

It’s about hosting.

The internet sort… not the dinner party sort.

Anyway, to get back on topic, about the only part that’s not obvious from the name is how comprehensive Hosting.com’s product range is.

To fill in the details here as quick as possible: Hosting.com is more or less complete.

They sell everything the average person could want.

Now, with that said, Hosting.com isn’t exactly AWS. So, if you’re selling to big businesses with “enterprise” needs, Hosting.com might not be the perfect fit.

But, for everyone else who just needs regular hosting products with great service and decent prices, Hosting.com is pretty much guaranteed to have them covered.

HHosting.com Affiliate Program — The Commissions

Hosting.com’s commission structure is unusually good for such a dominant player in the space.

Basically, it works like this:

• Hosting.com offers a fixed payout per sale.
• That payout is determined by how many sales you’ve made.
• The more you sell, the more Hosting.com pays you per sale.

In practice, Hosting.com’s affiliate commissions look like this:

Number of Sales	Earnings per Sale
1–10	$55
11–15	$75
16–20	$100
21+	$125

Sweet, right?

Hosting.com Affiliate Program — Next Steps

Alright, that’s enough about Hosting.com for now. If you want more details, there’s plenty more of them over on TopRanked.io where you can read our full A2 Hosting (now Hosting.com) Affiliate Program Reivew.

Yes, it still says A2 Hosting. But it’s basically just the same program — the only thing that’s changed is the Hosting.com name.

https://topranked.io/all-listings/a2-hosting-affiliate-program/
As for the rest of you who know a good thing when you see it, head here to sign up with the Hosting.com affiliate program today.

Affiliate News Takeaways

The year’s barely getting started, and already age verification is back in the news.

The tl;dr recap of that article basically goes like this:

• Spain’s Prime Minister announced plans to ban under-16s from social media platforms.
• A senior government official in Greece also claims that the country is “very close” to banning under-15s.
• Similar plans are in the works around the world…
• The French President backed draft legislation to ban under-15s from social media.
• Denmark announced plans to ban access to social media for anyone under 15 (with a small “with parental consent” carveout for 13-14 year olds).
• Malaysia has also announced plans to ban children under 16 from using social media this year.
• The U.K. has started enforcing its “Online Safety Act” that requires certain platforms like Reddit, Discord, etc. to verify users are over 18. (More on the U.K. later — this one’s got a big opportunity!)
• In the US, no federal ban, but nine states so far have already passed laws requiring parental consent or age verification for minors.

So yeah, the whole world’s going all in on the “we’re doing it for the children” narrative.

Anyway, none of this should come as all that much of a surprise.

You’ve probably seen plenty of reporting/social media posting about the general direction things are heading here already.

Heck, we’ve already covered the age verification thing (and the affiliate opportunity it implies) before. Last time we did it was (unsurprisingly) in our 2025 PureVPN Affiliate Program Review edition.

So, besides the fact age verification is back in the news, why am I bringing it up again this week?

To talk about VPNs?

Well, yes… but also no.

Yes in the sense that the next bit of the news is absolutely about VPNs.

But no, in the sense that selling VPNs isn’t the affiliate opportunity here.

At least, not in the traditional sense.

What I have for you this week is, I believe, a near virgin market that’s yet to be properly exploited by affiliates.

Anyway.

Before I get to the actual opportunity, you’re first going to need a little context.

After all, you’re going to struggle selling something to a market you don’t even know about.

So here’s the next piece of news:

UK government targets VPNs in online safety consultation as Lords vote for ban
byu/AnonymousTimewaster intechnology

Now let me explain what’s going on here.

In case you missed it back in the opening, the UK has semi-recently started enforcing its “Online Safety Act” — a bill it passed way back in the day (2023, I believe) to ban under-18s from platforms that might contain “adult” content.

And no, that “adult content” thing doesn’t just apply to pr0n sites.

It also applies to places kids hang out when they want to be kids.

You know, like Reddit and Discord and stuff.

Anyway, as you can imagine, the kids were none to happy about this.

And as you can also probably imagine, VPN usage exploded.

No surprises there.

And hopefully, you earned yourself a few affiliate bucks. But if not, read on — there’s a second wave of opportunity brewing.

And now you know the full background behind the story above.

The UK wants to ban VPNs to stop them from bypassing those pesky age verification rules.

“So then”, you’re probably wondering… “Where’s the supposed opportunity here?”

I’m very glad you asked.

You see, getting around government-imposed bans on what you can and can’t do online is a lot like skinning a cat.

There’s the most efficient way, which is pretty much what standard VPNs are.

But that doesn’t mean there’s only one way.

And the best part about it is, once people start looking for alternate ways, there’s suddenly a whole new affiliate opportunity that nobody’s thinking about yet.

Wanna know what that opportunity is?

No, it’s not proxies.

But it is servers.

As in, the exact same thing you’ve probably used in the past to host a WordPress blog or something similar.

That’s what you’re going to sell to the kids.

How?

Simple.

You’re going to create a bunch of “how-to guides”, whether it be videos, blogs, or posters with QR codes.

And those guides are going to teach kids how to use their own server so they (and their friends) can get around the pesky UK government.

Now, obviously, the full details of what you’re going to put into those guides is beyond the scope of this page.

With that said, I can give you a couple of pointers about the general direction you probably want to go.

The most obvious direction here is to teach the kids to just “build their own” VPN.

It’s actually super simple these days — there’s literally “off the shelf” software you can download and install.

WireGuard is one of them.

And yeah, the setup instructions might look scary.

But remember, the kids these days are basically hackers already.

And also, look at how long the video at the top of that guide runs for — barely 2 minutes to get your own Wireguard VPN up and running from scratch.

Of course, that said, this particular method comes with some potential downsides in the long run.

After all, it only took the UK government a matter of months to start discussing VPN bans. So if they find out a bunch of kids are now just running their own VPNs, they might act just as quickly to start talking about putting in ISP-level bans or VPN traffic, or 

something to that effect.

But that’s okay, because you just found another selling point you can use when selling servers to kids — you don’t even need a “VPN” (in the normal sense) to get the functionality of a VPN.

Some other strategies they can use, which actually look like “normal” internet traffic.

Obviously, such topics are way beyond what we’re going to cover here, but to point you in the right direction, ask your favorite LLM about reverse proxies and SSH tunnels.

Takeaway

Alright, let’s recap.

Tl;dr:

• Age verification requirements are going viral (so VPNs are still a big opportunity globally)
• But VPNs might be dead in the UK due to the government wanting to ban them.
• So now, there’s an opportunity to sell VPN 2.0 to the kids — their very own server.
• If you “market” this the right way, you’re almost (both metaphorically and, hopefully, literally) tapping into a virgin market. (See above for the “why/how”)

So all that’s left at this point is to talk about monetization.

Fortunately, that’s an easy one. Go sign up with Hosting.com (Formerly A2 Hosting) to start selling some good value VPS servers to the kids.

Closing Thought

This week, there’s been a massive response to Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 drop.

Now, whether this is Anthropic overhyping is obviously a complicated question. My only observation is, if you take Anthropics own words and translate them into an analogy, it basically goes like this:

“we built a car… yes, we really built a car… trust us bro… but, oh, PS, the parts we actually built don’t really work properly… and some parts we just failed at completely, so we just ended up gaffa taping our car to another car to make it run… oh, yeah, and it was also a lot more work to build it than we want you to believe.”

In any case, that didn’t stop the whole “Anthropic’s going to replace all software with its AI” narrative from going viral. So, no surprises, software stocks got pummeled.

And that’s when the overlord of AI (the Nvidia CEO) stepped in with some wise words.

He said, this whole notion that software “will be replaced by AI … is the most illogical thing in the world.”

And you know what?

He’s completely right.

His main point went like this:

“If you were a human or robot, artificial, general robotics, would you use tools or reinvent tools? The answer, obviously, is to use tools.”

But, I think there’s one step further to go here as well.

Here, let me explain.

If you look at a lot of AI narratives, there’s a common theme: “If AI can do this one thing well, suddenly everything becomes free.”

Another big example here is one Musk likes to throw around — that AI surgeons will make medical care cheap and accessible.

Cool story, right?

That is, until you start realizing that the parts you’re making “basically free” is only a fraction of what the thing actually costs.

Think about it.

Does the AI pay for the facilities?

Does it pay for all the drugs you’re going to be given?

Does it pay for the equipment?

Does it pay for the insurance?

No, of course it doesn’t.

Assuming it’s free (it won’t be), the bot only ends up replacing ~20% of the total cost.

Not that thats anything to complain about… but it’s also far from free.

So what’s the point here?

What’s the takeaway?

Well, if you look here, you’ll see a pattern.

Narratives tend to flatten everything into one tiny little box.

And the bigger the narrative is, the smaller the box tends to become.

Now, obviously, spotting this particular narrative isn’t all that useful to us as affiliates.

But there are plenty of other narratives like this out in the wild.

And the best part is, often, when you spot them, that’s when you start to see opportunities everyone else is missing.

So keep your eyes peeled and your head level.

And don’t forget to sign up with Hosting.com (formerly A2 Hosting).

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