IONOS VPS
IONOS
Monthly VPSBilled in US dollars
IONOS, the German hosting company formerly called 1&1 and part of the United Internet group, rents monthly VPS plans in the US, the UK, Germany and Spain.
- Cheapest, with IPv4
- $2.00/mo
- VPS S+, 1 vCPU, 2 GB, 60 GB NVMe
- Public IPv4
- Included
- Automatic backups
- Not stated
- Billing
- 3-month term
- Billed in US dollars
- Datacenters
- 4 in 4 countries
- North America, Europe
- Run by
- United Internet group
- Germany
Entry plans and the real monthly bill
In US dollars, per month, as listed by IONOS (US storefront (ionos.com)). IPv4 added where it's charged separately.
Swipe the table sideways for the price and the bill.
| Plan | Server | Traffic | Plan price | With IPv4 | The bill |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VPS S+ | 1 vCPU, 2 GB, 60 GB NVMeShared CPU | Not stated | $2.003-month term, excl. VATRenews at $6.00 | $2.00 | plan $2.00IPv4 included |
| VPS M+ | 2 vCPU, 4 GB, 120 GB NVMeShared CPU | Not stated | $5.003-month term, excl. VATRenews at $14.00 | $5.00 | plan $5.00IPv4 included |
| VPS L+ | 4 vCPU, 8 GB, 240 GB NVMeShared CPU | Not stated | $8.003-month term, excl. VATRenews at $25.00 | $8.00 | plan $8.00IPv4 included |
| VPS XL+ | 8 vCPU, 16 GB, 480 GB NVMeShared CPU | Not stated | $14.003-month term, excl. VATRenews at $47.00 | $14.00 | plan $14.00IPv4 included |
Good to know
- A public IPv4 address is included in every entry plan
- VPS S+ renews at $6.00, 3× the first-term price
- The cheapest price needs a 3-month term
- Listed prices exclude VAT
Where IONOS has datacenters
4 in 4 countries, as listed by IONOS.
Europe 3
- United Kingdom
- Germany
- Spain
North America 1
- United States
Where it stands among 43
Each fact with every host's answer. IONOS is outlined.
Kind of host
Monthly VPS
Cloud servers 14
Monthly VPS 25
Bills in
US dollars
US dollars 32
Alibaba Cloud
Amazon Lightsail
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DigitalOcean
DreamHost
GoDaddy
Google Cloud
GreenCloud
Hivelocity
HostHatch
hosting.com
Hostinger
Hostwinds
InMotion Hosting
InterServer- IONOS
Kamatera
Linode
Liquid Web
Microsoft Azure
Namecheap
Oracle Cloud
OVHcloud
RackNerd
ScalaHosting
Servers.com
SSD Nodes
Tencent Cloud
UltaHost
Vultr
Swiss francs 1
Public IPv4 address
In the plan price
In the plan price 36
- Alibaba Cloud
- Amazon Lightsail
- Bluehost
- Civo
- Cloudways
Contabo- DigitalOcean
- DreamHost
Exoscale- GoDaddy
- GreenCloud
- Hivelocity
- HostHatch
- hosting.com
- Hostinger
HOSTKEY- Hostwinds
Infomaniak- InMotion Hosting
- InterServer
- IONOS
- Kamatera
- Linode
- Liquid Web
- Namecheap
netcup- Oracle Cloud
- OVHcloud
- RackNerd
- ScalaHosting
- Servers.com
- Tencent Cloud
Time4VPS- UltaHost
UpCloud
Webdock
Charged on top 5
Not stated 2
Price after the first term
Goes up on renewal
Same price 28
Goes up on renewal 11
Hourly billing
Monthly or longer
Billed by the hour 19
Monthly or longer 21
Not stated 3
Dedicated CPU in entry plans
Shared CPU only
A dedicated-CPU plan 6
Shared CPU only 13
Datacenters on
2 or 3 continents
One continent 10
2 or 3 continents 13
ARM servers
Not stated
Add-ons and extra charges
- Public IPv4
- Included One IPv4 per server; additional IPv4 $5/month
- Automatic backups
- Not stated Optional Cloud Backup, billed per GB
- Snapshots
- Not stated High-speed images work as point-in-time snapshots; no price stated
- Extra traffic
- Unmetered No extra charges, however traffic grows
How you pay
- Hourly billing
- NoNo Month-to-month or yearly contracts
- Minimum term
- 1 month; the listed offer needs a 1-year term Invoiced monthly even on longer terms
- Setup fee
- None The US VPS page says 'no setup fees'; checked by fetch 2026-10-18
- Always-free server
- None No free VPS; the '30-day free trial' is a money-back guarantee
- New-account credit
- None No account credit; refunds within 30 days instead
- Payment methods
- Card, PayPal From the US help page; also Klarna, Apple Pay, Google Pay and Amazon Pay
- Signup checks
- Payment method required; a small test charge verifies cards
- Refunds
- 30-day money-back guarantee All VPS plans
What you get
- Processors
- AMD and Intel Models not named; Dell servers
- ARM servers
- Not statedNot stated No Arm option stated
- IPv6 included
- YesYes One IPv6 /80 network included
What comes with it
- Block storage
- YesYes Add-on; price not stated
- Object storage
- YesYes S3-compatible add-on; price not stated
- Private network
- YesYes
- Cloud firewall
- YesYes Customisable firewall
- Load balancers
- YesYes
- DDoS protection included
- YesYes Global Scrubbing Platform covers VPS
- Managed databases
- MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB IONOS CLOUD DBaaS, a separate service
- Managed Kubernetes
- YesYes IONOS CLOUD Managed Kubernetes, a separate service
- API
- YesYes Hosting API via the developer portal
- Terraform provider
- Not statedNot stated The Terraform provider covers IONOS CLOUD; not confirmed for VPS
- Custom ISO
- Not statedNot stated Not stated on the VPS page
- Windows
- Separate, higher-priced Windows plans The licence fee isn't itemised
Who you're renting from
- Company
- IONOS SE US contracts are with IONOS Inc. in Philadelphia; the UK entity isn't named in the excerpts
- Owned by
- United Internet group
- Based in
- Germany Headquarters in Germany
- Founded
- 1988 1&1 was founded in 1988; renamed 1&1 IONOS in 2018
- Support
- 24/7 phone, chat and email; a personal consultant Work outside the scope of support is quoted
- Certifications
- ISO 27001 Stated for the VPS data centers
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