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Ionos is a web hosting heavyweight. Founded and headquartered in Germany and the US, it manages more than 12 million domains for eight million customers across multiple regional data centres. Alongside registration services, it offers a range of Linux- and Windows-based hosting packages, Hosted Microsoft Exchange, managed and cloud servers, and dedicated server rental.
Here, we’re looking at its Linux-based ‘Premium’ tier hosting product, which starts at £8.40 per month for the first six months, rising to £16.80 for the remainder of your contract, giving you a total first-year cost of £151.20. In year two, the cost is £201.60, as you don’t benefit from the introductory rate.
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Ionos Premium hosting review: What do you get for the money?
The Premium plan gives you 350GB to play with, mirrored across two data centres. This is more than enough for a regular site, and plenty for photo and video hosting. The server is shared, giving you access to one vCPU and 15GB of RAM. Bandwidth is unmetered, so in the unlikely event that your site goes viral it shouldn’t fall over – and you won’t be surcharged.
You can create a maximum of 10,000 subdomains for any account, which is so generous a number it’s barely a restriction at all. You could use these to host different apps, set up multiple instances of the same app within a single domain, or allocate individual subdomains to subjects or departments. There’s support for both MySQL and MariaDB, with Premium accounts capped at 350 databases storing up to 2GB apiece.
PHP support covers 7.4 to 8.2, with 8.0 recommended. If you’re running an application that requires an outdated version, you can add extended support for versions as far back as 4.0, for which community support ran out in August 2008. This is chargeable, which isn’t unreasonable, and prices vary depending on age. Support for PHP 7.3 costs £8.44 a month, rising to £16.87 for PHP 4.0.
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