Generally I agree with you, on the importance of being skeptical about analysis/benchmark comparison where financial incentives are at sake. IE, some research p

Generally I agree with you, on the importance of being skeptical about analysis/benchmark comparison where financial incentives are at sake. IE, some research publications are sponsored by Microsoft who in return publishes glowing review of Internet Explorer 8. However, in this case, the author is not sponsored by or works for any VPS service. He provided affiliated links at the end of the article, where one of the linked service did not prove to be superior than the other according to his analysis. If he sneaked in an affiliated link within the article, the objection and skepticism could be somewhat justified (still I think its somewhat fair game).