Last updated: 2026-09-18
HenkTek is an IT company in Fort Myers. We also write about the hardware and software we work with, and some of those posts carry affiliate links. This page explains how that works, who pays us, and what it does and does not change about what we recommend.
If you click an affiliate link on this site and buy something, the retailer pays us a small commission. Your price stays the same. We get paid by the retailer out of their margin, not by you and not by the manufacturer.
We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program that pays sites to link to Amazon.com. Our Amazon tag is henkelvisionl-20, so any Amazon link on this site ending in that tag is an affiliate link.
We also work through CJ Affiliate, which connects us to vendors directly. Right now that covers Sucuri, Malwarebytes and NordVPN. Those links route through a CJ tracking domain before landing on the vendor site, which is why the URL looks odd for a second when you click.
Separately from all of that, HenkTek is a managed services provider. We resell and support IT products for clients under normal vendor partner agreements, and we earn margin on that work. If we recommend something on the blog that we also sell or deploy as a service, that is a commercial relationship too, and it counts the same way an affiliate link does.
Nobody pays us for a good review. We have never accepted payment to write about a product, and we do not let a vendor see a post before it goes up. A fair amount of what we recommend pays us nothing (Microsoft 365 settings, free tools, and the boring advice to just turn on MFA are not exactly commission generators).
When a product is bad, or when the cheap option is the right one, we say so. That is the only version of this that works long term. Our clients read these posts, and a recommendation that costs somebody $900 on the wrong laptop does far more damage to us than a 3% commission is worth.
We should be straight about method, because a lot of review sites are not. Most of what we write about, we have not physically tested in a lab. What we do instead: check the manufacturer spec sheet against the live retail listing, read independent teardowns and expert testing where it exists, and look at patterns across owner reviews at scale (a complaint that shows up 200 times is data, one angry review is not).
On top of that, we have been installing and supporting this category of gear for Southwest Florida businesses since 2010. When we recommend a firewall, a UPS or a backup target, that is usually informed by what we have deployed in the field and what has come back to us broken. Where a post is based on hands-on experience we say so directly. Where it is not, we do not pretend otherwise.
We do not run “independently tested” badges anywhere on this site, because it would not be true.
Any price you see in a post was accurate on the day we wrote it. Hardware pricing moves constantly, and it has been worse than usual lately with memory prices swinging. Always check the current price on the retailer page before you buy. If you spot a price on our site that is badly out of date, tell us and we will fix it.
If you want to know whether a specific recommendation earns us anything, just ask. Call (239) 234-2334 or use our contact page and we will tell you plainly. Our privacy policy covers what these links do with your data.