# Methodology: how we compare Crypto Dedicated Servers

Every value comes from a source of the provider, with a verbatim quote and a snapshot; agents capture it, a watcher checks the sources regularly. Scores are calculated deterministically from the data — never by a language model.

## The best service, not the cheapest

We are not a price comparison site. The score answers one question: which service is the best, judged by its features, how well it protects your privacy and how far the provider can be trusted. Price is one criterion among several: a fair price counts in full, only an overpriced one loses points. Whether the best service is worth its price is your call in a second step: sort and filter the list by price.

- What makes a good service weighs most. Each category sets its own criteria and weights and publishes them on its methodology page.
- Costs weigh little and count along fixed price points: a fair price scores in full, an overpriced one loses. A low price never makes up for weak privacy or trust.
- Missing data never helps: an unknown value counts with the typical value of the category (the median), never better. Proofs such as an audit or a no-logs case proven in court count only when we find them.
- Hard limits: weak trust or a very young brand cap the total score, however good the rest looks; so does, for example, a VPN that logs what its users do.
- Absolute, never relative to the best: a score changes only when the product’s own data changes, and 100 does not claim perfection.

## Score weights

| Criterion | Weight |
| --- | --- |
| Costs | 10 % |
| Features | 20 % |
| Locations | 10 % |
| Anonymity | 20 % |
| Freedom & due process | 10 % |
| Trust | 25 % |
| Community | 5 % |

Community counts damped: only the average ratings on App Store, Google Play and Trustpilot, weighted by count, as deviation from the category median, capped to the 5th–95th percentile, neutral below 50 ratings — new hosts are not penalised. Single experience reports, Reddit and X posts do not count, so the score cannot be steered by bought or targeted reviews.

## Value states

- **known**: The value is published and proven by a quote.
- **not published**: The provider does not publish the value (shown as such, never as 0).
- **only in the app**: The value is only visible in the provider’s app.
- **not applicable**: The attribute does not apply to this product.
- **unknown**: We have no proven value yet.

## Is the double s a typo?

No. The double s at the end of our name stands for sourced & synced. sourced: every value has a source, a quote and a snapshot. synced: our monitoring compares every value with its source continuously, and each value carries its check date.

## Sponsoring and affiliate links

Sponsored slots are labelled and have no influence on score or ranking. Affiliate links are marked.

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