IONOS

IONOS: digital infrastructure and cloud services for businesses

IONOS is an internet and cloud computing service provider that sells domains, web hosting, professional email, servers and cloud solutions. Its offering is presented as a set of products aimed at helping businesses launch and maintain their digital presence, with options ranging from creating a website to managing advanced infrastructure.

Domains and online presence

The company allows you to register domain names, including .co.uk, .com, .ai and other top-level domains such as .app, .dev or .london. It has an AI-powered domain name generator and a bulk search that supports registering up to 50 domains in a single operation. It also offers domain transfer services, SSL certificates, domain protection and lookup tools such as the SSL checker, IP address lookup and Whois lookup.

Website and online store creation

For building sites, IONOS sells a website and app builder via chat, a drag-and-drop website builder with integrated marketing tools, and a website design service carried out by experts. It adds a website migration service and an online store design service. For ecommerce, it offers a store builder, an ecommerce plugin that turns any website into a store, a social buy button to sell on different platforms and hosting specifically for WooCommerce and PrestaShop. Useful tools for stores include a favicon generator, a logo generator and an SEO checker.

Web hosting and servers

The hosting catalogue includes shared hosting, WordPress hosting optimised for speed and control, WooCommerce hosting, Joomla! hosting with free extensions, Jamstack hosting and project deployment from GitHub. In the server section, the company offers virtual private servers (VPS) with KVM virtualisation and SSD storage, both Linux and Windows, dedicated servers with enterprise-grade hardware and unlimited traffic, AMD and Intel servers, storage servers, GPU servers for artificial intelligence and deep learning, bare metal servers for networked environments and AI server solutions. It also has hosting for n8n with root access and NVMe storage, and VPS options for AI agents such as OpenClaw and Hermes Agent.

Email, productivity and storage

IONOS offers professional email addresses, webmail access, hosted Microsoft Exchange, email marketing and online office tools. In collaboration with third parties, it sells Microsoft 365 / Office 365, Google Workspace and Nextcloud Workspace as an office alternative. For storage and backup, it has Managed Nextcloud, HiDrive Next Cloud Storage, email archiving, MyDefender to protect data against viruses, ransomware and loss, and a free large file sharing service.

Digital marketing and reputation management

The company groups AI-assisted marketing tools: a search manager to improve visibility on Google, ChatGPT and other environments; an acquisition manager to create social media campaigns; and a reputation manager that responds to customer comments in real time. Email marketing and a Google Ads management service are also included.

Artificial intelligence solutions

IONOS has added an AI product line that includes a virtual receptionist to handle customer calls, a chat assistant to answer website enquiries, IONOS GPT to work with professional models and a reliable AI platform, an AI model hub with voice and text-to-image models, and scalable GPU servers for deep learning workloads and high-performance computing.

Public, private and bare metal cloud

In the cloud area, the company presents itself as «Europe’s leading cloud» and offers public cloud, private cloud and bare metal cloud. The public cloud includes compute services such as Compute Engine, Cloud GPU VM and Cubes; storage and backup with Backup Service, Block Storage, Object Storage and Network File Storage; containers with Managed Kubernetes and private container registry; data analytics with Event Streams for Apache Kafka; database as a service, in-memory, MongoDB and PostgreSQL; network services such as Cloud DNS, CDN, DDoS Protect, Flow Logs, managed load balancers, NAT Gateway and VPN Gateway; and observability services with logging, tracing and monitoring. The private cloud is VMware-based and includes vSAN, VCDA, NFS Datastore and NSX, with per-minute billing. The bare metal cloud offers dedicated servers tailored to each project and high-performance GPU servers.

Support and technical resources

IONOS provides its customers with cloud technical support, documentation, API, price calculator, savings plans, live product demos, data centre designer, whitepapers and a cloud marketplace with partner programmes. The company operates in the UK market through its ionos.co.uk domain.