Screenshot of the IONOS home page.

IONOS is one of the giants of the web hosting industry, and claims to be Europe’s market leader. IONOS (formerly 1&1 IONOS and IONOS by 1&1) manages over 8 million contracts and hosts over 12 million domain names!

The company describes itself as “the partner of choice for small and medium-sized businesses for web hosting solutions and cloud infrastructures”.

This is one of the reasons why it offers an AI-based website creation service, with personal assistance and advice.

In addition to this service, on which IONOS bases the bulk of its communications, notably through commercials, IONOS also offers a hosting solution dedicated to WordPress.

IONOS benefits

  • Strong experience and expertise in the hosting sector: the company has been on the business since 1988!
  • A host focused on performance: hosting in an environment isolated from other websites on your server, 100% SSD storage, caching plugin and OPcache.
  • Multiple tools to manage your WordPress site: SSH, SFTP and WP-CLI access, integrated tool to import your themes and plugins from another WP site, automatic and customizable updates.
  • 99.98% server availability.
  • Support available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year (by phone, email or chat).

IONOS rates

IONOS WordPress hosting rates are divided into 3 packages, each for one WordPress site:

  • Start: $5 excl. VAT/month
  • Grow: $10 excl. VAT/month
  • Boost: $15 excl. VAT/month

Promotional offers are often available on these rates. Contracts have no minimum commitment period and include a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Each WordPress pack includes automatic updates, a domain name (for the 1st year) and SSL certificate, as well as DDoS and anti-malware protection.

Bandwidth is not limited. On the other hand, storage space is restricted according to your plan (25GB SSD storage with the Start offer, for example).

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