IONOS
Low-cost shared hosting and cloud servers from a large European provider.
IONOS is a German hosting company that sells shared web hosting, WordPress hosting, VPS, cloud and dedicated servers. Every shared plan allows unlimited websites, includes a domain for the first year, a wildcard SSL certificate and daily backups. Intro prices need a one-year term.
IONOSOne floor per score. Lit windows out of five.
What comes with the flat
- Unlimited websites and 100 GB storage even on the Essential plan
- Renewal prices stay close to the regular price, $8 a month on Essential
- Daily backups of files and databases on all shared plans
- 24/7 phone, chat and email support plus a free personal consultant
- Trustpilot score of 4.6 from about 45,000 reviews
The small print
- Only one email account on Essential and two on Starter
- Intro prices require a one-year prepaid term
- Custom control panel instead of cPanel, which some reviewers find harder to use
- Trustpilot complaints often mention billing and renewal charges
Floor plans
Essential
Starter
Plus
Ultimate
Read on 2026-10-14 on IONOS's own pricing page, USD excl. tax. Work out the rent year by year
What the neighbours say
45,415 reviews, read 2026-10-14
Our verdict
A sensible pick for small business sites and personal projects that want plenty of storage and phone support at a low yearly cost. It is less suited to people who need many mailboxes on a cheap plan, since the entry plan has one email account. Reviewers at TechRadar and Tooltester describe shared hosting speed as average and the control panel as less intuitive than cPanel.
The details
- Kinds of hosting
- shared, wordpress, vps, cloud, dedicated, email
- Control panel
- IONOS control panel (custom)
- Backups
- Daily backups of storage and databases on all shared plans
- Support
- 24/7 phone, chat and email, plus a free personal consultant
- Moving in
- Not offered free on the plan page; TechRadar lists no free migration
- Free domain
- yes, first year on all shared plans (.com, .net, .org, .us and others)
- Free SSL
- Yes
- Data centers
- United States, Europe
Sources
- IONOS web hosting plans: Prices, renewal, term, storage, email accounts, backups, SSL, free domain, support, 30-day guarantee
- PCMag review via Yahoo Tech (June 2025): Editors' Choice for cloud hosting, few mailboxes on shared and VPS plans, support reached by phone in about two minutes
- TechRadar and Tooltester summaries (via search): Average shared speed, control panel less intuitive, data centers in the US and Europe
- Trustpilot, IONOS: Score 4.6, 45,415 reviews, common complaints about billing
Scores are our reading of the sources above, on a 1 to 5 scale. We did not run our own server tests for this listing.
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