Rick Weston, linked to previous multi-level marketing ventures, registered the Tuned Hosting website domain "tunedhosting.com" on April 20, 2015, listing an Oregon address. The site offers various web hosting and domain services without disclosing its operational ownership beyond this initial registration.
Weston's history includes affiliations with several recruitment-focused businesses. In 2013, he commented on discussions regarding My Fun Life, a travel-oriented MLM. My Fun Life saw a decline through 2015, culminating in March 2016 when CEO Dan Edwards announced the sale of its affiliate database to WorldVentures.
Before My Fun Life, Weston participated as an affiliate with North American Power. This company operated as a recruitment-driven utility MLM, but it ceased its multi-level marketing operations in 2015. Weston also owns WP-MLM, a WordPress plugin advertised to assist with MLM recruitment online.
Tuned Hosting presents a product line consisting of monthly domain and web hosting services. Domain registration and transfer cost $10.53. Shared hosting plans range from $3 to $12 per month, while VPS hosting is priced between $29 and $89 per month. Cloud hosting services are offered at $49 to $59 monthly, and dedicated hosting ranges from $169 to $369 per month.
The company provides no information indicating whether it directly offers these services or acts as a reseller. Tuned Hosting's own website domain was purchased through eNom, and its site is hosted with Enzu. This suggests Tuned Hosting likely resells the services of one or both of these larger providers.
Tuned Hosting compensates affiliates for selling its domain and hosting services to both retail customers and other recruited affiliates. Direct commissions, which include retail orders, pay a 20% commission each month on hosting services. The compensation plan does not specify any commissions paid on the sale of domain registrations.
Residual commissions are distributed through a unilevel compensation structure. In this model, an affiliate sits at the top, with all personally recruited affiliates placed directly below them on Level 1. Any affiliates recruited by those on Level 1 fall onto Level 2, and the structure continues down.
Tuned Hosting caps payable unilevel levels at ten. Commissions are calculated as a percentage of the sales volume generated by the unilevel team. Level 1 affiliates earn 5%, Level 2 affiliates earn 2%, and Levels 3 through 5 each earn 1%. The payout percentages increase for deeper levels: Level 6 pays 2%, Level 7 pays 3%, Level 8 pays 5%, Level 9 pays 7%, and Level 10 pays 10%.
Affiliates must meet specific criteria to qualify for commissions across all ten unilevel levels. The available information indicates that an affiliate must "sell and maintain three hosting services" to earn commissions on levels 1 to an unspecified point. The full qualification details beyond this initial requirement are not publicly provided.