What is IONOS?
IONOS traces back to 1&1, founded in 1988 in Montabaur, Germany by Ralph Dommermuth; the brand was consolidated and renamed IONOS in 2018. It is one of Europe's largest web hosting and cloud groups, offering domains, shared and managed website hosting, and IaaS/cloud compute through IONOS Cloud (built on the former ProfitBricks platform), operating across multiple European and North American markets as part of United Internet.
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Source checked 27 September 2026: official website.
Key capabilities
- Hosting and domains: shared and managed website hosting alongside domain registration.
- IONOS Cloud: IaaS compute, storage and networking (built on the former ProfitBricks platform).
- Multi-market presence: operations across multiple European countries and North America under the United Internet group.
Separate the hosting/domains business from the IONOS Cloud IaaS business when comparing plans, since they have different pricing, support and SLA structures.
Shortlist IONOS for conventional web hosting and domains bundled with the option to add IaaS cloud compute from the same vendor, particularly for European-based workloads. Compare its cloud IaaS specifically against dedicated cloud providers if compute is the primary need rather than hosting or domains.
IONOS's scale and European roots matter mainly for data residency and support-language needs; compare its cloud IaaS pricing and feature set against dedicated providers rather than assuming its hosting reputation extends automatically to the cloud product.
Technical details
- Access
- See vendor
- Source model
- Other license
- Founded
- 1988
- Headquarters
- Montabaur, Germany
- Pricing model
- Paid
- API
- Not specified
- Source check
- Primary source ↗ checked
- Website
- www.ionos.com ↗
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