Introduction

IONOS is the web hosting and cloud partner for small and medium-sized businesses. The development team are experts in IaaS and offer a portfolio of solutions for the digital space. As the largest hosting company in Europe, they manage more than 8 million customer contracts and host over 12 million domains in our own regional data centers in the US and Europe.

They help entrepreneurs taking their first steps online, business owners scaling up, large companies and the partners who help them succeed. Whether building an online presence by securing a domain, building a website, moving back-office processes to the cloud, or orchestrating a container cluster, their comprehensive product range offers a best-in-class app, server or service.

Reliability and security are engineered into the core of their products. Their data center network delivers optimal performance and georedundancy. With headquarters in Germany, they rely on a solid mix of state-of-the-art technology, strong privacy policies and airtight data security.

Unique to the industry, they offer a dedicated customer service agent to every customer. Your own personal consultant will take the time to get to know you and your business, helping you make the most of your online presence. World-class customer support through a single point of contact is yours at no extra cost.

You deserve nothing less than the latest technologies at a great price and in terms that are easy to understand. The best contract is flexible and doesn’t require a team of legal experts, so they’ve tried to make their product offerings and prices as transparent as possible. Helping to make you a success online is their gain — ensuring that you’ve got time for other more important things is their goal.

What exactly is web hosting?

Whether a large or small business, an institution or as individual user, anyone planning on creating an online presence will require the appropriate storage space for their future website. This is where web hosting services come into play, i.e. for the provision of storage space for a website by a hosting provider (also known as a provider).

Such storage space is referred to as web space. The provision of web space on a server (a computer designed for this purpose), as well as providing the necessary network connections, is usually done at a cost. Simply put, the customers rent web space from a web hosting service provider.

In order to be able to offer customers the highest technical standards at low prices, IONOS provides web hosting in the form of shared hosting.This kind of hosting is the ideal form of web hosting for entry-level businesses. Shared web hosting servers are home to several different websites. This means that your site would share server CPU resources with other websites.

Blazing-fast hosting makes a better page

Give your online project a head start and host your website with one of the fastest web hosting providers in the US.* Faster hosting means a smoother visitor experience and results in fewer visitors leaving your page early.

*Comparison made over 30 days from April 26, 2020 to May 26, 2020 with Teamviewer Web Monitoring. Loading times based on servers located in the US. They compared their web hosting Linux Expert plan against comparable plans from Bluehost (Basic Web Hosting), GoDaddy (Economy Linux with cPanel) and Hostgator (Starter 1 site).

Georedundant infrastructure

Keep your project online with 99.9% uptime and their georedundant hosting services. Your data is mirrored in two data centers, so your hosting stays uninterrupted even during maintenance and outages.

Cutting edge server-side security also helps keep your site up and running. They use their own server shield technology to prevent DDoS attacks.

Scalable performance management

Adjust the performance of your project at any time thanks to scalable performance levels that ensure you keep up with demand. Each additional performance level cost 2$/month.

As soon as your current performance level has reached its limit, you'll get an email notification. You can then adjust the performance level as needed.

Works with your favorite apps in one click

All of their web hosting plans come with a range of great plugins to enhance your website. Choose from the most popular web hosting applications including TYPO3, Joomla!, Drupal and PrestaShop. All plugins are free and easy to install.

The WordPress plugin is also available to install, but for a more comprehensive solution they recommend IONOS Managed WordPress.

What are the special features of the IONOS web hosting plan?

If you wish, they can provide you with web hosting without a contract period, i.e. with monthly billing and a cancellation period in the corresponding packages of only one month.

IONOS web hosting is ideal for running WordPress; there is a complete package available especially for this.

The package includes a certain amount of data storage.

If you have any questions: Their support is available 24/7. In addition, your personal consultant will also be at your side – completely free of

charge.

All their web hosting packages include an SSL certificate.

What is the difference between web hosting and a server?

A server, or web server, is part of the web hosting infrastructure. They are powerful computers on which both configuration files and the data of the hosted websites are stored, i.e., websites and all website content. A root server is a server with "root access" to the configuration data of a server.

The IONOS web hosting service does not offer root access as they take care of all the necessary configurations for you. If you choose a dedicated server, a virtual private server or a cloud server, you will have root access and can configure the server yourself.