IONOS Hosting vs. Porkbun

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IONOS Hosting
Score 8.2 out of 10
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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
Porkbun
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Porkbun is an ICANN accredited domain name registrar based out of Portland, OR, boasting low registration prices for domains and email hosting, as well as an easy to use website builder. The service includes SSL Certificates, WHOIS privacy, email forwarding for hosted email, cPanel hosting, as well as easy Wordpress & PHP. Porkbun also offers their own website builder that can support ecommerce through their partnership with Weebly.N/A
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
IONOS Hosting
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 …
Chose IONOS Hosting
Godaddy users seem to have more challenges with connecting their websites to their domain and customer service.
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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.
Porkbun
Chose Porkbun
Simply put, Porkbun doesn't try to overcharge you. You are paying a near-bare minimum cost for each domain while still getting great support, and unlike a lot of other registrars, you aren't being upsold something due to the lower costs. You just receive a good service.
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Small Businesses
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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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Enterprises

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User Ratings
IONOS HostingPorkbun
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
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Availability
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Performance
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Product Scalability
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User Testimonials
IONOS HostingPorkbun
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.
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Anyone who generally needs to register domains or who would like to have free email forwarding for their domains, especially thoughts working on a budget considering how inexpensive Porkbun is compared to other registars.
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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.
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  • Extremely competitive domain pricing and discounts
  • Reminders to renew domains far in advance with generous grace periods
  • Easy email forwarding
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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
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  • Can't think of anything!
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Reliability and Availability
In over 8 years of operations, we have not had a single outage that affected us.
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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.
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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.
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Simply put, Porkbun doesn't try to overcharge you. You are paying a near-bare minimum cost for each domain while still getting great support, and unlike a lot of other registrars, you aren't being upsold something due to the lower costs. You just receive a good service.
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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).
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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.
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  • Lowered our yearly costs for domains
  • Avoided dealing with costly domain name sharks
  • Avoided extra email hosting costs for simple tasks like email forwarding
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