# IONOS cloud Reviews **Vendor:** IONOS by 1&1 **Category:** [Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/infrastructure-as-a-service-iaas) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 13 ## About IONOS cloud IONOS cloud is part of IONOS - the leading European provider of cloud infrastructure, cloud services and hosting services. IONOS cloud provides everything needed for success in and with the cloud: Compute Engine, Managed Kubernetes, S3 Object Storage and Private Cloud powered by VMware. As the European cloud alternative, IONOS cloud is the only cloud provider with a patented technology stack "Made in Germany" for maximum data security and compliance against legislation such as the CLOUD Act. ## IONOS cloud Reviews ### 1. DBaaS server deployments are automated using Terraform with the help of IONOS Cloud's dedicated APIs **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shreya B. | Cloud Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2022 **What do you like best about IONOS cloud?** We can conveniently store our databases and don't have to worry about maintaining its infrastructure & patching. It provides high scalability and numerous data connectors are provided to facilitate integrations with our third-party tools. It is best suited for all applications that require quick deployments, proper load balancing, auto-scaling and high availability. **What do you dislike about IONOS cloud?** It supports all our database requirements namely MySQL, PostgreSQL & Redis. Since its infrastructure resources provisioning is done in its dedicated cloud platform, there won't be any latency issues or connection failures. All procurements and license management are handled by the IONOS cloud platform so we needn't worry about service interruptions & we only pay for the services that we use. We have only recently started utilizing its DBaaS but resource visibility & cost estimates are insightful in its console. **What problems is IONOS cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can automate scheduled backup using Terraform scripts in the IONOS cloud platform. Through its DBaaS APIs, we connect it with our Database monitoring tools to obtain reports of our dB performance metrics & for resource discovery. We can also define a custom maintenance window for our migration activities so that we carry out limited to no disruptions during our planned failover activity. It also provides Write-Ahead-Logs (WAL) features to our PostgreSQL system so that they carry our continuous logs archiving which can also be appended to our regular logs. ### 2. IONOS DCD Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 05, 2021 **What do you like best about IONOS cloud?** The GUI to provision servers and the time taken to do so. The servers can easily be associated to a network and exposed to the www. The firewall is easily configured aswell. The level of support is really good. I had many Google meetings with 2 or 3 IONOS staff who were always very helpful and knowledgeable (Lawrence Jackson, Zihni Saglam, Russel Barley). **What do you dislike about IONOS cloud?** The backup console took a bit of getting used to and a few issues were encountered along the way. Downloading the ISO, uploading the ISO, then registering console etc seemed to be a bit long winded. The issue I had after a vm clone was the backup agent installed on the backup box overwrote the backup device on the live box. The support was good to get me through this. However i think better documentation could be given/written. **What problems is IONOS cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** All problems now solved. We created a new backup db server (OL7.8 inc SQL Server) from a full backup of the live server. This had a Acronis backup attached to it and we tested incremental backups and sql server backups on this server. ### 3. TRUE CLOUD! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Museums and Institutions | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 05, 2021 **What do you like best about IONOS cloud?** IONOS Enterprise Platform is what I can say a real cloud! You can scale up your CPU, RAM & Storage real time and use as you go. It provides Real Time Scalability & Data Center Desiner gives server admins a visual representation of the servers he manages like what you would see on a real data center environment. Their Account Management Team is also top tier and would go out of thier way to provide good support and traning to my organisation. **What do you dislike about IONOS cloud?** Nothing much to say about dislikes, but maybe they can improve more on thier storage pricing maybe much less that amazon aws. **Recommendations to others considering IONOS cloud:** IONOS Enterprise Platform is a great solution for a growing company and those already at an enterprise level. **What problems is IONOS cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have a problems before with baremetal cloud servers and its scaling option. Before for you to scale up a cloud server is you have to coordinate with your current provider and request for an upgrade. Which doesn't make sense as this would mean that what you have is a co-location servers rather that true cloud servers. ### 4. Want a super datacenter provider .. look no further! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2021 **What do you like best about IONOS cloud?** We have used all sorts of services, from the lowest cost to the highest. What we liked immediately at IONOS was the support we received, something I believe is of primary importance, be it sales or technical they were always there. In addition to this, the other main aspect that keeps us with IONOS is the Datacenter Designer .. super fast and fun to work with. **What do you dislike about IONOS cloud?** I have only one thing .. the Datacenter Designer needs improvements, and IONOS are aware and working on this ... so I like the dislike already! **What problems is IONOS cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** we need to spin up private spaces for our customers in order to provide them the cloud infrastructure to use our software on. The IONOS DCD offering allows us to provision on demand, Brilliant! ### 5. Wonderful support team and good platform **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Biraj G. | IT Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2021 **What do you like best about IONOS cloud?** The interface is pretty straightforward and the settings are easy to configure. There are useful resources within IONOS if you are after something as well. **What do you dislike about IONOS cloud?** Some of the guides needs to be update, I have found on a few occasions where some of the options weren't what it showed on the guide, but other than that I can't think of one at the moment. **What problems is IONOS cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have lots of websites and web application that we host on IONOS cloud. ### 6. Tony Rutter - Referral partner for IONOS Cloud **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tony R. | Freelance Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 05, 2021 **What do you like best about IONOS cloud?** Since beginning my journey as an IONOS Cloud referral partner, they have been amazingly helpful with the whole partner process and I couldn’t be happier with their level of customer service. **What do you dislike about IONOS cloud?** So far there is nothing I can complain about! **Recommendations to others considering IONOS cloud:** IONOS Cloud are a very professional, helpful and trustworthy company, they do everything they say on the tin! **What problems is IONOS cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** After a long reviewing partnerships across the cloud works, IONOS Cloud by far had the most appealing partnership scheme. ### 7. Best experience ever with a hosting provider **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Trevor V. | Networks & Systems Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 03, 2021 **What do you like best about IONOS cloud?** their easy to use portal, the knowledge of the support staff, and the whole experience whereby you dont just feel like a number **What do you dislike about IONOS cloud?** I cannot think of anything really, whenever we had a request or needed something they were always extremely helpful **What problems is IONOS cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** Making the whole IT infrastructure easily reachable by anyone, and saving costs ### 8. Excellent technology offering backed up by a great support team **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andy B. | Systems Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 03, 2021 **What do you like best about IONOS cloud?** The Data Center Design tool is a great visual tool for building your Cloud environment **What do you dislike about IONOS cloud?** Some limitations on automation of Windows instances for autoscaling **What problems is IONOS cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** A key component of our Business continuity and Disaster Recovery process ### 9. Very solid tech platform **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 04, 2021 **What do you like best about IONOS cloud?** Very nice visual interface, allows for a more simple setup, and a much less steep onboarding process. **What do you dislike about IONOS cloud?** Not enough extra services, though they are arriving. **What problems is IONOS cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** Providing always available servers for collaboration with external entities, ### 10. Great pricing on IAAS services, but support out of Germany can be difficult sometimes **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Garry A. | Director of Operations, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2017 **What do you like best about IONOS cloud?** ProfitBricks has a nice interface that is easy to use and provision live servers with a visio-style drag-and-drop association. You can build LANs, VMs, disks, etc by "connecting the dots" so to speak. Pricing is fantastic as well. With a purely utilitarian style pricing model (like AWS), but at a lower price point that most of the competitors it is a very compelling option. Also, their Las Vegas Datacenter is located right here in town and we have physical access to the same facility that they are located in. This makes coordinating efforts and access to our data and systems much easier. **What do you dislike about IONOS cloud?** Getting support generally goes through their engineering team in Germany and the time and language barriers can be difficult to deal with at times. **What problems is IONOS cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** ProfitBricks has allowed us to scale our clients' infrastructure dynamically without purchasing new hardware. We have built a deep partnership and they are always there to help with the business side of our operations, as well as providing assistance on the technical side. ### 11. Mainly positive experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael S. | CTO / tech and product, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 11, 2015 **What do you like best about IONOS cloud?** I really enjoyed the ability to visually design of a network and the computing resources. At the same time built in multi-zone, multi DC distribution took is a welcome feature. Customer support was outstanding, in a few instances where we needed it we were on the phone with 2nd level engineers within a few hours. "Free" and seamless elasticity is of a great help and saves devops dollars. **What do you dislike about IONOS cloud?** One obvious shortcoming at the time (a year ago, and perhaps this is fixed by now) was the account access management. At the time it was rudimentary, allowing only one login per organization. We also found that auto scaling down was an issue. **What problems is IONOS cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** The company was running an image recognition and processing platform. We had a significant demand for computer power and elastic scaling. Profitbriks allowed us to run our architecture without extra devops cost. The same stack would require dedicated devops team if ran on AWS. ### 12. Great hosting platform. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 07, 2015 **What do you like best about IONOS cloud?** The simplicity of use. Their control panel is great and you can easily scale and create new servers, datacenters, connect them to different LANs and deploy them to production. Also, they are more cheap than AWS and we have a great uptime with them. Support is great, every time they have contacted me very fast. **What do you dislike about IONOS cloud?** The UI of control panel still has to be polished somehow, but they are on to it. **Recommendations to others considering IONOS cloud:** Cheap, realiable and easy to use platform for cloud hosting. **What problems is IONOS cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work with very large scale of servers and customers and using Profitbricks has helped me to achieve what I want. ### 13. Easy interface to use **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2015 **What do you like best about IONOS cloud?** I would like the best is the launch of servers **What do you dislike about IONOS cloud?** It is too costly to use. 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