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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon Lightsail

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Lightsail is a virtual private server (VPS) designed to present an easy-to-use cloud platform that offers everything needed to build an application or website, plus a cost-effective, monthly plan.

    $3.50

    per month

    IONOS Hosting

    Score5.6 out of 10
    N/AIONOS 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
    Pricing
    Amazon LightsailIONOS Hosting
    Editions & Modules
    512 MB Linux
    $3.50
    per month
    1 GB Linux
    $5.00
    per month
    2 GB Linux
    $10.00
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon LightsailIONOS Hosting
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon LightsailIONOS Hosting
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    Amazon AWS
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    IONOS, Inc
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    67%
    Would buy again
    4 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    80%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Amazon LightsailIONOS Hosting
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Amazon Lightsail and IONOS Hosting
    Feature
    Amazon Lightsail
    8.8
    6 Ratings
    6% above category average
    IONOS Hosting
    -
    Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling5.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing9.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring tools8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images8.95 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operating system support10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security controls10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automation10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Amazon LightsailIONOS Hosting
    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Score9 out of 10
    Namecheap
    Score6.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    Amazon LightsailIONOS Hosting
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    7.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon LightsailIONOS Hosting
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    We utilized Amazon Lightsail to get a web application proof of concept up and running. It's easy to set up, requires minimal configuration, and lets us to concentrate on the coding. It's designed to help you get started fast and easily, but it's not designed for corporate applications or workloads.
    Incentivized
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    IONOS, Inc
    I run five websites off of 1&1 for different outshoots of the company. For our web needs it works perfectly. We have a midgrade hosting package and it works perfectly. I know if issues arose from traffic or storage space 1&1 would have a solution for us.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • Its provide pre configured Apps and operating system
    • Very easy to use interface and the cost is also very low
    • Integration with other AWS services like route53, S3 etc
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    IONOS, Inc
    • Private registration: 1&1 offers free private registration which makes them an automatic favorite.
    • Reliable customer service: always someone available when I call in and I have never had my issue not get resolved.
    • Easy to use dashboard: domains in one place with DNS settings and other things that can be tweaked. It's easy to add an SSL certificate to domains as well.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • slow
    • complex integration to AWS Cloudwatch - complex setup required
    • No IPv6, a big downside
    • less value compared with Linode or Digital Ocean
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    IONOS, Inc
    • 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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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    My overall experience with Amazon Lightsail is very good, and the online community of Lightsail users is very large and its helps to resolve any kind of issue i faced on my server. I also like the integration of other AWS services with Amazon Lightsail like we can export our Lightsail instance into ec2 server using snapshots.
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    IONOS, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    IONOS, Inc
    In over 8 years of operations, we have not had a single outage that affected us.
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    Performance
    Amazon AWS
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    IONOS, Inc
    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
    Amazon AWS
    Amazon Lightsail is a great platform. Before we started using it, we were using AWS EC2 instances as our primary servers after being dissatisfied with other providers. After Amazon Lightsail's introduction, we were able to reduce our operating costs, improve our quality assurance tasks, and provide much more efficient and better apps with our microservices architecture.
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    IONOS, Inc
    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
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    Scalability
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    IONOS, Inc
    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
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • Hosting a production application on Lightsail will guarantee you a loss
    • Saved lots of time for our prototyping
    • Other VPS providers are better
    Incentivized
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    IONOS, Inc
    • 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
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