Excellent enterprise-class cloud hosting
Companies in need of feature-rich, reasonably priced hosting should take a look at Ionos. The web host, which caters to small and large hosting needs, offers a wide array of enticing packages, including shared, virtual private server (VPS), WordPress, and dedicated hosting. However, it’s Ionos’ robust cloud servers that make it stand out from rival hosts and earn our Editors’ Choice award for cloud hosting alongside the equally excellent DreamHost.Ionos Shared Web Hosting Plans
Shared hosting is one of the most popular forms of web hosting due to the low cost. With it, your website splits system resources (and the associated cost) with the many other sites set up on that same server. Shared hosting isn’t particularly powerful, but it’s cheap web hosting. Sometimes, that’s all you need.
Ionos offers a standard monthly web hosting charge but reduces the price if you sign up for multi-month or annual packages. Ionos lets you choose a one-month plan with any package tier. This pricing method may not have much (if any) impact on large businesses, but a cash-strapped blogger will appreciate Ionos’ one-month basic web hosting option. The shared web hosting servers use the Linux operating system, which is par for the industry course.
The entry-level Essential package ($4 per month with an annual subscription) includes a free domain name if you purchase at least a six-month plan. If you instead opt to renew on a monthly basis, Essential costs $8 per month. The Essential package lets you host a single website and offers 10GB of storage, just one email account, 10 databases, and unlimited monthly data transfers. The highest of Ionos’ four shared hosting tiers is Ultimate, which comes with unlimited websites and unlimited storage, making it a more robust and flexible option. Like Essentials, it limits you to creating just one email account. Unlimited costs $10 per month for a 12-month plan. Want to pay on a month-to-month basis? That costs $18 per month.
Ionos also offers Windows-based shared hosting, which is unusual for this server type. The plans are similar but cost slightly more due to the Windows OS license. The $12-per-month Business tier provides 100GB of storage, 25 MS SQL databases, unlimited monthly data transfers, a free SSL certificate, and a free domain for one year. For $14 per month, the Pro tier provides 250GB of storage and 100 MS SQL databases. The $22-per-month Expert plan bumps this up to 500GB of storage and 500 MS SQL databases.
The Linux plans are good for, say, a mom-and-pop shop that just wants to list its inventory. The miserly email account offerings are particularly limiting for larger ventures, and unusual for the category which typically offers unlimited email. However, you can subscribe to one of Ionos’ three Mail plans for more accounts. HostGator, our Editors’ Choice for shared hosting, offers superior shared web hosting packages for a wider user range.Ionos VPS Web Hosting Plans
VPS hosting is a step up from shared hosting. It’s a more powerful option that sees your site leverage more server power. VPS hosting isn’t quite cheap hosting, but it isn’t overly expensive, either. You’re less likely to notice a site slowdown because other sites that share the server get a big hit (something that often happens with shared hosting).
Ionos’ six cloud-powered VPS offerings (starting at an extremely affordable $2 per month for 1GB of RAM, 10GB of NVMe storage, and unlimited data transfers) give you the essential tools for building a website that can handle the rigors of the internet better than traditional shared web hosting. Like Ionos’ shared plans, the company’s VPS plans don’t offer much in the way of email; you can create just two email addresses. That’s on the very low side for VPS hosting. Subscribing to one of Ionos’ three Mail packages ups the number.
You can outfit the Linux- or Windows-based servers with up to 24GB of RAM and 640GB of storage using the company’s top-tier, $50-per-month VPS XXL package (discounted to an introductory $29 per month with a six-month purchase). Note that if you go the Windows route, the final price of your package can go up considerably due to licensing fees—$10 per vCore per month.
Ionos offers quality VPS web hosting packages, but Hostwinds, the Editors’ Choice for VPS web hosting, tops them all by offering unlimited storage, unlimited domain hosting, and unlimited email. Hostwinds also offers flexible Minecraft VPS hosting starting at $4.99 per month.Ionos Cloud Web Hosting Plans
Cloud hosting is becoming increasingly common. It differs from traditional hosting in that it spreads resources across multiple servers, whereas traditional hosting pulls power from a single server. Ionos has wholeheartedly embraced this type of hosting, offering multiple tiers of managed and unmanaged cloud hosting that can be outfitted with the Linux or Windows operating systems.
The four plans start at 0.8 cent per hour ($5.76 per month) for a single-core CPU, 2GB of RAM, 60GB of SSD storage, and unlimited monthly transfers.
