8mo ago

Experience with IONOS?

Saw they have promotion £1/mo without setup when paid for a 12mo contract for the lowest end VPS. Anyone use it before?

Just planning to run frp on it. https://github.com/fatedier/frp

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I didn't have a VPS with them, but long ago I had a couple domains through them. One of them had an issue with the auto-renewal and I never got a notification of any kind, only finding out when they had taken ownership of the domain, advertising it for sale. Then they wanted some way, way higher amount of money for me to buy it back. So, I don't have any domains with them any more.
This was years and years ago though, so they might be better now.
- This exact thing happened to one of my clients. And it sucked because they didn't even register the domains with Ionos, they registered them with some other company that then got bought by Ionos. They were not technically savvy and didn't understand what was happening until it was way too late. They lost about 8 domains closely associated with their business and with their CEO's research.
- I had the same problem. Luckily for me I found out before they went past the 30 day?* window, so I was able to renew and then transfer them away.
  *I can't remember the exact length of the window, but I think that's right.

I've been using their 1€/month vps for a couple of years now as a reverse proxy, but I use HAproxy and wireguard. It's been working flawlessly.

I do, worked fine for like a year and then suddenly started having stability problems, maybe there is a problem with the config of my cloud servers but idk.

Their cheap 1-6€/month VPS offers are actually fine. Not much to say about it, it just works.
https://awesome-selfhosted.net/ is hosted on a Ionos VPS.

I had a good experience with Ionos using their £1/mo VPS, I currently use two for small services.
However for anything more expensive they are around the same price as hetzner, better service without the lock-in.

I do get a billing error about every 2 or 3 years. Usually something like they double bill a month, or the price for just 1 month is suddenly 2x - 3x the normal price.

I used their products 3-4 years and switched then to hetzner, because the technical support by ionos is very limited and often the first answer is: "You have a VPS so it is your problem.". Yes this answer is correct, but not if it is not reachable after an update of the host by ionos.
Hetzner instead has very nice guys and they have a very good knowledge about what they are doing.

Extra question for people who have been using it. It says the bandwidth is unlimited, how unlimited are we talking about?. I was considering getting one to use as a reverse-proxy into my home lab to be accessible from the outside, which would mean lots of bandwidth usage, media streaming amounts.

I use ionos since 10 years and I‘m very happy, but only for webhosting stuff. The VPS Services I get from Hetzner and I havent really tested them.
I did have a meeting with IONOS this week though about it and I‘m positive about the UI for new vps owners since its quite easy to grasp but I dont think they’re a better option than hetzner.

I have that VPS and it does what it is supposed to do. Config allows all the things and the rest ... Well it's a root sever.
What's frp
- A reverse proxy https://github.com/fatedier/frp

I'm using IONOS for more than a decade now, and it works fine. I'm not into too much of web design, though, the personal web site is just a storage facility to move files around. I think they have quite some tools to develop professional web sites. Also allows for SSH access, which was helpful when I could not delete some files with filezilla.
Mail is good, too (Domain + 10 email accounts + catchall).

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