IONOS review
Large European host with aggressive entry pricing
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Quick verdict
Competitive on price with European infrastructure, though the product range can be confusing to navigate.
The hosting arm of United Internet, operating data centres across Europe including the UK. Offers shared hosting, VPS, dedicated and cloud with a wide product range.
Who it suits
- · Tight budgets
- · UK-based sites and UK audiences
- · Small business websites
Who should look elsewhere
- · Renewal pricing rises sharply after the first term
- · Product catalogue is large and hard to compare
- · Upselling during checkout is persistent
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What is good
- European data centres including the UK
- Very low entry pricing
- Named personal consultant on business plans
- Broad product range under one account
What is not
- Renewal pricing rises sharply after the first term
- Product catalogue is large and hard to compare
- Upselling during checkout is persistent
The detail
Features and specifications
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Hosting and platform
- Control panel
- Custom / Plesk
- UK data centre
- Yes
- Data centre regions
- United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, France, United States
- Free SSL
- Yes
- Email hosting included
- Yes
- Free migration
- Unknown
- Money-back period
- Unknown
Performance and tooling
- Staging environment
- Unknown
- CDN included
- Unknown
- Object caching
- Unknown
- Redis
- Unknown
- Automatic backups
- Unknown
- Backup retention
- Unknown
Developer access
- SSH access
- Yes
- Git
- Unknown
- WP-CLI
- Unknown
- Cron jobs
- Unknown
- PHP versions
- Unknown
- Node.js support
- Unknown
Ecommerce and security
- WooCommerce support
- Yes
- Malware protection
- Unknown
- Web application firewall
- Unknown
- DDoS protection
- Unknown
- Support channels
- phone, live chat, knowledge base
Pricing
What it costs
We publish a price only once an editor has checked it against the provider's own pricing page and recorded the date.
Renews at 6 — check the term length before committing.
| Plan | Type | Sites | Latest checked price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | shared | — | GBP 3 |
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Sources
Where this information came from
- IONOS hosting overview· Capabilities and plan structure · checked 17/08/2026
- IONOS pricing page· Entry pricing · checked 17/08/2026
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