Hostway vs IONOS

Compared options | Visit Hostway | Visit IONOS |
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Pricing | 9 hosting plans | 43 hosting plans |
Starting price | $6.95 / month | $1.00 / month |
Free domain | No | Yes |
Coupons | No | No |
User Ratings | 1.8 | 2.7 |
Reliability | 2.0 | 2.5 |
Pricing | 2.0 | 3.0 |
User Friendly | 1.5 | 3.0 |
Support | 1.5 | 2.0 |
Features | 2.0 | 3.5 |
User Reviews | 13 reviews | 377 reviews |
Latest positive review | | I've worked with this company for ten years, and I utilize their managed WordPress products in addition to their virtual servers. Never experienced downtime or problems besides those of my own making. They provide the best cu... More stomer service around. The price point is lower in my opinion and really competitive. Outstanding value for the money. Less |
Latest negative review | A customer of mine recently purchased web hosting services from Hostway, and it’s been a nightmare since the moment the purchase was made. The salesman repeatedly assured us that we would have Cpanel access, and it’s not even... More available. They assured we could install a shared SSL through them…..it turns out you can, so long as you email it to them every year and get them to install it. I don’t trust their ability to install it based on what I’ve seen so far though. From the very moment we purchased an upgraded plan, we hadn’t even logged onto the site yet, they took down our original website and hosed our email settings. In the middle of the business day. For several days I was unable to upload my index.html file, I had to send it to them and ask them to do it. The other files upload fine, just not the index file. At first they attempted to blame FileZilla for the problem, then finally got a workaround where I upload the file into my images folder, contact them, and they move it into the root directory. Not satisfactory, at all. I still am unable to edit my own htaccess file, and it doesn’t look like they care much about fixing that either. This started last Friday, and today is Tuesday. I have spent literally hours on the phone and in chat with them trying to get this ironed out, and as of 5pm Tuesday it still is not fixed. It takes as long to explain the issue as it does for them to look through their documentation for an answer, because they are not even minimally competent with the technical workings of a server. Maybe they do okay with Wordpress, I don’t know, but unless that’s your thing steer way way clear of this company. Less | Even after 1and1 sold to Ionos the site was still functional. Yesterday, I went to create a new Wordpress installation and they are trying so desperately to sell you things that they have actually hidden a simple Wordpress i... More nstallation. Now they have people cold calling me that are extremely pushy. When I told them I was frustrated with the service I was told "I wasn't fun and that I have a negative attitude" because I didn't want to try their website builder for free. Do not use this service! It's Yahoo before Google came along. Less |
Shared Hosting | 3 plans from $6.95 to $109.95 | 6 plans from $1.00 to $320.00 |
Under $4 | No | Essential
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Under $8 | ||
Over $10 | Expert ASP.net
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VPS | 6 plans from $6.95 to $109.95 | 6 plans from $1.00 to $320.00 |
Under $4 | No | |
Under $8 | No | |
Over $10 | ||
Dedicated Server | No | 12 plans from $1.00 to $320.00 |
Under $4 | No | No |
Under $8 | No | No |
Over $10 | No | |
Cloud Hosting | No | 13 plans from $1.00 to $320.00 |
Under $4 | No | |
Under $8 | No | |
Over $10 | No | |
Website Builder | No | 3 plans from $1.00 to $320.00 |
Under $4 | No | |
Under $8 | No | |
Over $10 | No | |
SSL | No | 3 plans from $1.00 to $320.00 |
Under $4 | No | No |
Under $8 | No | No |
Over $10 | No | |
Data Centers | 1 of 6 | 2 of 6 |
North America | Yes | Yes |
Europe | No | Yes |
Asia | No | No |
Oceânia | No | No |
South America | No | No |
Africa & Middle East | No | No |
Support Services | 4 of 6 | 5 of 6 |
Live Chat | Yes | Yes |
Phone Support | Yes | Yes |
Email Support | Yes | Yes |
Forum Support | No | No |
Video guides | No | Yes |
Knowledgebase | Yes | Yes |
CMS support | 4 of 6 | 3 of 6 |
WordPress | Yes | Yes |
Joomla | Yes | Yes |
Drupal | Yes | Yes |
Magento | Yes | No |
Softaculous | No | No |
PrestaShop | No | No |
OS Support | 2 of 2 | 2 of 2 |
Windows/ASP.NET | Yes | Yes |
Linux | Yes | Yes |
Language Support | 2 of 8 | 5 of 8 |
PHP | Yes | Yes |
Java | Yes | Yes |
Python | No | Yes |
Node.js | No | No |
Django | No | No |
Perl | No | No |
Ruby on Rails | No | Yes |
ASP.NET | No | Yes |
Database Support | 1 of 3 | 1 of 3 |
MongoDB | No | No |
MySQL | Yes | Yes |
PostgreSQL | No | No |
Payment Types Support | 2 of 6 | 2 of 6 |
PayPal | No | Yes |
Credit Card | Yes | Yes |
Moneybookers | No | No |
Wire Transfer | Yes | No |
Webmoney | No | No |
Bitcoin | No | No |
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