Advertise on fosshost.com

Reach developers, sysadmins, and open source project maintainers who are actively researching and choosing hosting infrastructure. Our audience values privacy, technical quality, and ethical technology.

FOSS-first
Audience

Our readers actively choose open source infrastructure. They research providers, compare specs, and make informed purchasing decisions.

No tracking
Analytics

We use privacy-first analytics (Plausible). No cookies, no personal data collection. Your ad reaches real humans, not ad-tech surveillance profiles.

Ethical
Standards

We only accept advertising from companies whose products and practices align with FOSS values. No crypto casinos, no shady VPNs, no malware-adjacent services.

Carbon Ads

Carbon is our primary ad network. It's the most ethical ad platform in tech — single image + text ads, no tracking, no cookies, no user profiling. Carbon serves ads to the developer community and has been the standard for ethical tech advertising since 2011.

What Carbon offers

  • Single image + text ad format (no animated ads, no popups)
  • No user tracking, no cookies, no fingerprinting
  • Ads targeted by page content, not user profiles
  • Reach developers, designers, and technical decision-makers
  • Trusted by GitHub, npm, Bootstrap, and thousands of dev sites
  • Self-serve or managed campaigns available

Get started with Carbon

  1. Visit carbonads.net
  2. Choose "Advertise" and select your budget
  3. Target "Development" or "Open Source" categories
  4. Your ads appear on fosshost.com and the Carbon network

Pro tip: Mention "fosshost.com" when signing up — Carbon may offer network discounts for sites with aligned audiences.

Sponsored Blog Post

Have a story that would interest our audience? Sponsor a blog post that covers your topic with the same practical, honest tone as our editorial content.

What we publish

  • Technical deep dives on FOSS infrastructure
  • Migration case studies (proprietary → FOSS)
  • Performance benchmarks with honest methodology
  • Community stories and project spotlights
  • Infrastructure scaling guides

What we won't publish

  • Pure marketing content with no technical substance
  • Unverifiable benchmark claims
  • Comparisons that trash competitors without evidence
  • "X vs Y" posts with no genuine insight
  • Anything promoting proprietary lock-in

All sponsored content is clearly labeled. We write all content in our editorial voice — you provide the topic and technical review, we write the post. Our audience deserves honesty.

Interested in advertising?

For Carbon Ads, visit carbonads.net. For sponsored profiles, blog posts, or custom partnerships, email contact@opshelp.com with "fosshost advertising" in the subject line.