IONOS reviews
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IONOS scores 6.9 out of 10 (good): 4.3★ average from 46,481 reviews on 4 sites · Runs its own network (AS8560) · Plans in 4 cities · 4 countries.
No. 38 of 135 rated providers Reviews checked 10 Nov 2026
Worth knowing
- Review sites disagree: HostAdvice 4.7★, SmartCustomer 1.6★
How the score is built
Fixed weights: half for what people say, half for what the provider runs on. A review part without enough data is left out and the other review parts share its weight.What people say
- Customer reviews 8.3 4.3★ average from 46,481 reviews
- Last 12 months — Not enough data yet
- Answers to complaints — Not read yet
- Forum posts 4.3 2 of 5 positive
- Expert reviews — Not enough data yet
What it runs on
- Own infrastructure 8.0 Runs its own network (AS8560) ↗
- Locations 5.3 Plans in 4 cities · 4 countries
Customer reviews by site
- Trustpilot 4.6★ 45,789 7 Nov 2026
- HostAdvice 4.7★ 385 7 Nov 2026
- SmartCustomer 1.6★ 1821.0★ lately (2) 10 Nov 2026
- WHTop 1.7★ 1251.0★ lately (1) 10 Nov 2026
In forums
Posts by people describing their own experience on Hacker News, summarised in our words. 5 first-hand posts among 35 that name it- Negative
Cancelled a basic shared plan over poor performance, dark-pattern upsells and pressure to phone in to confirm cancellation.
Hacker News · 6 Nov 2026 - Negative
A 4 GB cloud VPS could not handle even three basic web servers.
Hacker News · 4 Jun 2026 - Positive
Used one for a while as a WireGuard endpoint behind CGNAT; found it very cheap.
Hacker News · 14 Apr 2026 - Positive
Smallest VPS, one core and 512 MB, handles several gigabits per second of WireGuard traffic easily.
Hacker News · 13 Apr 2026 - Negative
Found it worse than Hetzner: buggy web interface, broken OS images, provisioning API bottlenecks, and much higher costs.
Hacker News · 18 Nov 2025
Rated higher than IONOS
The cheapest VPS plan of each. Picked by score, then by price.
