IONOS Web Hosting

IONOS Web Hosting is shared hosting from IONOS SE, the Montabaur-based provider majority-owned by United Internet. Plans run from EUR/USD 4 to 20 a month at list price and carry unlimited websites, 100–500 GB of NVMe storage, 10–500 MariaDB databases, daily backups, a wildcard DV certificate and one free domain for the first year. One-click installers cover WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and the usual PHP applications, and IONOS publishes a 99.99% uptime figure and a 30-day money-back guarantee.

The gaps against GoDaddy are narrow but real. Mailboxes are rationed by tier — one on the entry plan, five at the top — where GoDaddy bundles more generously, and the CDN is withheld from the cheapest plan. The headline prices are first-term rates on a one-year commitment that roughly double on renewal, which is the same pricing pattern GoDaddy uses, so the comparison is like for like rather than a saving.