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1 category · Named, not ranked

Newfold Digital

12Judge labels

0First choices

12Negative labels

8 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

7 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Newfold Digital was named 7 times in Cloud hosting, where Amazon Web Services led with 29%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business65 of 70

under the label threshold

Mid-market78 of 78

under the label threshold

Enterprise44 of 53

under the label threshold

In cloud hosting · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Newfold Digital for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Cloud hosting	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	78 of 78	100%	7	under 10 labels · led by Amazon Web Services at 29%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Newfold Digital yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Newfold Digital across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative12 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative12 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

No positive label carried a quote.

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“EIG is known for overloading servers, leading to slow performance, major outages, and poor customer support” Mistral Small · Cloud hosting · negative prompt · hard negative

“Many users have had to migrate from EIG-owned hosts due to complaints about quality or reliability.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Cloud hosting · negative prompt · hard negative

“Private equity-driven roll-up strategy with consistently poor customer support” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Cloud hosting · negative prompt · hard negative

“owned by a massive parent conglomerate called Newfold Digital (formerly EIG)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Cloud hosting · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Newfold Digital, over the 12 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Newfold Digital was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Bluehost10 of 120Not in the top three

GoDaddy10 of 120Not in the top three

HostGator10 of 120Not in the top three

Amazon Web Services8 of 121Not in the top three

Google Cloud7 of 121Not in the top three

Azure6 of 121Not in the top three

OVHcloud6 of 121Not in the top three

iPage6 of 120Not in the top three

Hetzner5 of 123Not in the top three

DigitalOcean5 of 122Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Newfold Digital. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 10 of the 12 answers that named Newfold Digital and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

reddit.com7

techradar.com6

theweather.agency6

digitalocean.com4

trustpilot.com4

dev.to3

g2.com3

vincentstout.com3

webhostingtalk.com3

blog.servermania.com2

Forty-one of the forty-one domain citations in answers naming Newfold Digital came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

techradar.com/news/best-cloud-hosting-providers6

theweather.agency/blog/hosts-from-hell-the-worlds-worst-web-hosting-companies-and-why-they6

digitalocean.com/resources/articles/cloud-service-providers4

reddit.com/r/webhosting/comments/ux7nuc/what_companies_should_someone_never_use4

vincentstout.com/hosting-providers-to-avoid3

webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php3

blog.servermania.com/top-cloud-hosting-provider2

dev.to/dkechag/cloud-provider-comparison-2024-vm-performance-price-3h4l2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Newfold Digital

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Newfold Digital; a claim can dispute any of them.

Endurance International Group (EIG) 2EIG-owned providers 1Newfold Digital (formerly EIG) 1Newfold Digital/EIG 1Newfold/EIG-brand hosts 1

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It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at newfolddigital.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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