IONOS Hosting vs. Liquid Web

IONOS Hosting

Liquid Web

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IONOS Hosting	Score 8.2 out of 10	N/A	IONOS a provider of cloud infrastructure, cloud services, and hosting headquartered in Germany, boasting more than eight million customer contracts. They provide individual web services including SSL certificates (provided by GeoTrust True BusinessID) , domain registration services, website hosting, and managed hosting services supporting WordPress, VPS hosting, and ASP.NET hosting.	N/A
Liquid Web	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	Liquid Web is a fully managed hosting service, boasting VPS hosting on the Storm Platform, and cloud dedicated hosting on the Storm Platform. Liquid Web supports managed WordPress, managed WooCommerce, VMware Private Cloud, as well as HIPAA and PCI compliant hosting, high availability database hosting, and dedicated or server clusters available for a variety of purposes, as well as websites.	$19 per month

Pricing

IONOS Hosting

Liquid Web

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Managed WordPress: $19
per month
Managed WooCommerce: $19
per month
VPS: $35
per month
Magenta Cloud: $49
per month
Cloud Dedicated: $149
per month
Private VPS Parent: $149
per month
Dedicated: $169
per month
Cloud Servers: $265
per month
HIPPA: $343
per month
Server Clusters: $743
per month
High Performance: 1,127
per month
High Availability: 1,448
per month
Database Hosting: 1,498
per month
VMware Private Cloud: 1,599
per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
IONOS Hosting	Liquid Web
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	IONOS Hosting	Liquid Web
Considered Both Products	IONOS Hosting Ruby Javaid Chief Designer Chose IONOS Hosting iPage is terrible. They don't even really have a proper cPanel and GoDaddy is kind of hard to navigate once you log in. The DNS settings are not obvious and the interface is clunky and old looking. By comparison, 1&1 provides all the features you'd need to manage your domains … Incentivized Helpful? Elaine Truesdale Founder Chose IONOS Hosting Godaddy users seem to have more challenges with connecting their websites to their domain and customer service. Incentivized Helpful? Emily Preston Senior Internet Marketing Coordinator Chose IONOS Hosting Rackspace I find to be too pricey for the service they offer. Pagely is very much WordPress oriented. I've had downtime with both that I haven't experienced with 1&1. Incentivized Helpful?	Liquid Web Kaushik Somaiya Owner Chose Liquid Web Liquid Web is more professional than all of them. The main reason is the rock solid support which is 24/7 available. Whenever we contact with queries, the solution is guaranteed. There is no need to create support tickets, all the queries gets solved over live chat. Incentivized Helpful? Francisco Mosse Director Chose Liquid Web In the last 20 years I used, between 5 and 10 hosting companies from Argentina, Canada, and USA. The best is Liquidweb. What I love from them is their support. I always know that I can send a ticket and in a short time (sometimes just minutes) I will have a reply. If I need … Incentivized Helpful? Lindsay Halsey Co-Founder Chose Liquid Web Liquid-Web is miles ahead of GoDaddy and Network Solutions in terms of customer support. It's a pleasure to speak with the Liquid-Web team and we've needed to reach out to support far less often after the shift to Liquid Web. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Liquid Web We evaluated Kinsta and WPEngine. Both offer great platforms but the lack of solid phone support and the substantial difference in server resource allocation made Liquid Web a clear winner. Incentivized Helpful? Tim Sleeper Web Developer Search Engine Optimization Chose Liquid Web The only other serious contender was DigitalOcean. Media Temple and GoDaddy are both terrible. While I liked DigitalOcean and the amount of flexibility it offered, we opted for a managed solution to lighten the workload for us. So, in the end, we picked Liquid-Web and we have … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Putnam Senior Web Developer Chose Liquid Web For me, Liquid-Web is the best overlap of: - Web hosting standardized Tools & Software - Quality Product (Reliable, Well-Performing) Incentivized Helpful?

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	IONOS Hosting	Liquid Web
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User Ratings
	IONOS Hosting	Liquid Web
Likelihood to Recommend	7.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IONOS Hosting	Liquid Web
Likelihood to Recommend	Reasonable pricing (SSL certificate for only $30! vs the usual $99), ease of use on the backend and/or dashboard, and reliable customer service, all make this a win in my book. And, of course, you can't beat the free private registration that comes with each domain purchase. I've been recommending 1&1 to all my clients for domain purchases for years. Incentivized Ruby Javaid Chief Designer Read full review	LiquidWeb is web suited for small and large companies as they offer VPS and dedicated servers, from small to very big servers if you need lot of CPU, RAM or disk. Incentivized Francisco Mosse Director Read full review
Pros	Their uptime is outstanding. They have great customer support with real people. They have all the technologies available I need to run my website. Their dashboard is easy to use. Incentivized Emily P Senior Internet Marketing Coordinator Read full review	Phone support is somewhat rare, but rapid, knowledgeable, and English-speaking phone support is rarer still. Liquid Web ticks all these boxes and more. Easy staging environments. Partnership with iThemes for complete site management. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	From my experience, customer services does not know how to address issues in an understandable language I feel that they arbitrarily overcharge w/o any explanation In my opinion it is really pricey Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The only con I can think of is Liquid-Web is more expensive, but it is a managed VPS so the price is on par with other similar services. There are some cheaper managed VPS plans out there, but in my experience, those often come with mediocre support and periodic server issues. Incentivized Tim Sleeper Web Developer Search Engine Optimization Read full review
Reliability and Availability	In over 8 years of operations, we have not had a single outage that affected us. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Performance	The email system has not impeded out mail flow in any way, and we do not notice the delays we sometimes see with other systems that include spam/junk mail filtering. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Rackspace I find to be too pricey for the service they offer. Pagely is very much WordPress oriented. I've had downtime with both that I haven't experienced with 1&1. Incentivized Emily P Senior Internet Marketing Coordinator Read full review	Liquid Web is more professional than all of them. The main reason is the rock solid support which is 24/7 available. Whenever we contact with queries, the solution is guaranteed. There is no need to create support tickets, all the queries gets solved over live chat. The organization backend is strong. Servers are costly but good. Incentivized Kaushik Somaiya Owner Read full review
Scalability	The scalability of the email solution far exceeds our needs and would be suitable for organizations not looking for an enterprise sized multipurpose solution (O365, Google Workspace, etc). Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	1&1 host our email and domains adequately. We can easily add and remove emails as needed. 1&1 also works with our website platform, Memberclicks. Incentivized Elaine Truesdale Founder Read full review	Positive! Our team voted moving our websites to Liquid Web as a top 3 decision/change made in 2018. Time! We save time managing and maintaining our website thanks to Liquid Web. Incentivized Lindsay Halsey Co-Founder Read full review
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