Ionos Review: The Best Web Host We’ve Tested So Far

Pros

• Excellent long-term pricing, especially for shared hosting

• Wide variety of plans, including VPS and dedicated hosting

• Excellent uptime

• Fast, reliable customer service

Cons

• Lots of upsells during the purchase process and initial site creation

• Mediocre site speed

Ionos, formerly 1&1 Ionos, is a web-hosting and data infrastructure company founded in Germany in 1988, with over 6.2 million customers around the globe. The numbers are impressive — but is the company? That’s what I set out to discover in my hands-on Ionos review.

I purchased an Ionos plan and spent a week testing Ionos’s account management, site creation, server management…