IONOS vs Liquid Web

IONOS is strongest for budget shared/VPS hosting. Liquid Web is strongest for agencies. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	IONOS	Liquid Web
Starting price	$0.02/mo	$5/mo
Best for	Budget shared/VPS hosting Windows workloads EU-based data residency Granular building-block cloud pricing	Agencies E-commerce/WooCommerce High-traffic WordPress Businesses wanting fully-managed support
Stated uptime SLA	99.99%	100% (Liquid Web's published network/power/infrastructure uptime guarantee)
Storage	NVME	SSD
Regions	6	3
Managed Kubernetes	Yes	No
Support channels	24/7 Phone, Ticket, Docs, Live Chat	24/7/365 phone, Live chat, Ticket, Docs/Knowledge Base
Compliance	GDPR, ISO 27001	PCI DSS, HIPAA (available), SOC 2
Hidden costs to watch for	Intro pricing on VPS+ and Web Hosting plans (e.g. $2/mo, $1/mo) is a 3-month or 1-year promotional rate on a 1-year contract; renewal pricing after the promo/contract period is 2-6x higher Additional static IPv4 addresses billed at $6.00 per 30 days each Outbound data transfer beyond the free 2TB pooled allowance is tiered: $0.036/GB (2-10TB), dropping to $0.018/GB beyond 150TB Windows Server and RedHat Enterprise Linux require separate per-vCPU/core license surcharges on top of Compute Engine/Cube pricing IONOS CLOUD Compute Engine building-block pricing (Cores + RAM + Storage priced independently) can be harder to estimate than fixed-tier competitors without using their price calculator	Advertised prices are frequently promotional (e.g. 50% off for the first 2 months, or 10-15% off for 1-2 year prepay terms); renewal pricing is meaningfully higher than the teaser rate Bandwidth overages and additional storage are billed as add-ons beyond plan allowances Managed WordPress/Nexcess plans are billed upfront annually to get the advertised per-month rate ("2 months free" annual billing) in many cases Windows OS licensing adds a surcharge over equivalent Linux dedicated/cloud dedicated configurations
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18