Subreddit rules check
r/hosting
Can you promote here?
The rules prohibit promoting your own product here. You can still be genuinely useful in comments (which builds the account standing every other community checks), but any promotional post or link is likely to be removed and can earn a community ban.
From the rules · Must disclose any connection to providers; affiliate/referral links are forbidden and promotional posts are actively removed.
Links
Links are prohibited in posts or comments. Name things in plain text; interested readers will search.
What this community rewards
Dominant post formats: question, discussion, news
Short, specific first‑person titles (e.g., “Switching from cPanel — what to use?” or “TornadoVPS outage — anyone else?”). Body: concise 1–4 paragraphs with concrete specs (traffic, stack, what you tried). Tone: practical, technical, neutral; ask for experience or solutions. Upvoted: real reports, troubleshooting, migration help, provider experiences. Removed: product pitches, marketing copy, affiliate/referral links.
Arriving in the local format matters: cross-posting the same text everywhere reads as tourist instantly. The wider method is in the Reddit playbook.
Classified mechanically from the community's published rules and recent top posts, last checked August 2026. Rules change and moderators have the final say: verify at r/hosting's rules page before posting anything that matters.
Thread Otter checks this before every send
These profiles power the product: promo-banned communities never receive a promotional draft, drafts arrive in the local format, and a fact-check gate plus human pacing protect the account doing the talking.