IONOS

Cloud hosting, dedicated servers, managed Kubernetes, domains and business email

Montabaur, Germany · Founded 1992 · Paid
A European alternative to AWS Google Cloud Microsoft Azure Vercel Netlify DigitalOcean Linode (Akamai) Oracle Cloud Vultr IBM Cloud Render Fly.io Heroku Railway

About IONOS

IONOS is a German hosting and cloud provider headquartered in Montabaur, the rebranded successor to 1&1's hosting and cloud arm, part of the United Internet group. The product range covers shared and managed web hosting, dedicated and cloud servers, managed Kubernetes, a Compute Engine, domains, SSL, business email and SaaS apps such as a website builder and Microsoft 365 reselling. Major data centres run in Karlsruhe and other German sites plus the US, with European data residency and GDPR compliance. IONOS SE is publicly traded and serves consumers, freelancers and SMBs across Europe and North America.

Quick facts

Pricing model Paid
Free trial
Open source
Self-hostable No
Public API Yes
Target audience BOTH
Company size fit Sme
DPA available Yes
Data stored in EU Yes
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