
Compared options | Visit IONOS | Visit Hostway |
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Pricing | 34 hosting plans | 9 hosting plans |
Starting price | $0.50 / month | $6.95 / month |
Free domain | Yes | No |
Coupons | No | No |
User Ratings | 1.5 | 1.8 |
Reliability | 1.5 | 2.0 |
Pricing | 2.0 | 2.0 |
User Friendly | 1.5 | 1.5 |
Support | 1.5 | 1.5 |
Features | 1.5 | 2.0 |
User Reviews | 361 reviews | 13 reviews |
Latest positive review | I’ve been a customer of IONOS for years and am satisfied with the service I receive. If I have a problem, someone is there to assist personally shortly. The hosting is stable and easy to use. | |
Latest negative review | My feedback is that your service / support is too poor, which I will publish as my review, more than a year ago I moved from another one to IONOS for a better price and when needed help realized the mistake I did so I am movi... More ng back to the previous one, paying a bit more expensive but I have the standard support. It would be good if one day IONOS educates its support team and takes care of customers as they deserve. I have read comments on different platforms (Twitter, YouTube, etc) and I am not the only one disappointed! So something is very wrong with your support team. Less | 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 |
Shared Hosting | 3 plans from $0.50 to $8.00 | 3 plans from $6.95 to $29.95 |
Under $4 | Essential
| No |
Under $8 | ||
Over $10 | No | |
VPS | 5 plans from $2.00 to $18.00 | 6 plans from $19.95 to $109.95 |
Under $4 | No | |
Under $8 | No | |
Over $10 | ||
Dedicated Server | 8 plans from $40.00 to $150.00 | No |
Under $4 | No | No |
Under $8 | No | No |
Over $10 | No | |
Cloud Hosting | 12 plans from $4.00 to $220.00 | No |
Under $4 | No | |
Under $8 | No | |
Over $10 | No | |
Website Builder | 3 plans from $1.00 to $10.00 | No |
Under $4 | No | |
Under $8 | No | |
Over $10 | No | |
SSL | 3 plans from $20.00 to $200.00 | No |
Under $4 | No | No |
Under $8 | No | No |
Over $10 | No | |
Data Centers | 0 of 6 | 1 of 6 |
North America | No | Yes |
Europe | No | No |
Asia | No | No |
Oceânia | No | No |
South America | No | No |
Africa & Middle East | No | No |
Support Services | 5 of 6 | 4 of 6 |
Live Chat | Yes | Yes |
Phone Support | Yes | Yes |
Email Support | Yes | Yes |
Forum Support | No | No |
Video guides | Yes | No |
Knowledgebase | Yes | Yes |
CMS support | 3 of 6 | 4 of 6 |
WordPress | Yes | Yes |
Joomla | Yes | Yes |
Drupal | Yes | Yes |
Magento | No | Yes |
Softaculous | No | No |
PrestaShop | No | No |
OS Support | 2 of 2 | 2 of 2 |
Windows/ASP.NET | Yes | Yes |
Linux | Yes | Yes |
Language Support | 5 of 8 | 2 of 8 |
PHP | Yes | Yes |
Java | Yes | Yes |
Python | Yes | No |
Node.js | No | No |
Django | No | No |
Perl | No | No |
Ruby on Rails | Yes | No |
ASP.NET | Yes | No |
Database Support | 1 of 3 | 1 of 3 |
MongoDB | No | No |
MySQL | Yes | Yes |
PostgreSQL | No | No |
Payment Types Support | 0 of 6 | 2 of 6 |
PayPal | No | No |
Credit Card | No | Yes |
Moneybookers | No | No |
Wire Transfer | No | Yes |
Webmoney | No | No |
Bitcoin | No | No |
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