DNSimple vs. IONOS Hosting

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
DNSimple
Score 9.0 out of 10
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DNSimple provides, DNS hosting and domain management automation services through API and beautiful web interface. Register domains, manage DNS, and issue SSL certificates, with clients in Ruby, Go, Elixir, Node, and more. DNS hosting service is fully compliant with all the .BANK security requirements.
$29
per month Includes 1 seat; $0.50 per hosted zone per month; $0.10 per million queries per zone per month
IONOS Hosting
Score 6.1 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
Pricing
DNSimpleIONOS Hosting
Editions & Modules
Solo
$0
$0.50 per hosted zone per month; $0.10 per million queries per zone per month. This plan is for 1 user.
Teams
$29
per month ($0.50 per hosted zone per month; $0.10 per million queries per zone per month). Includes 1 seat.
Enterprise
Custom
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DNSimpleIONOS Hosting
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Small Businesses
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Score 8.7 out of 10
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Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Score 8.7 out of 10
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Enterprises

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User Ratings
DNSimpleIONOS Hosting
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
7.0
(6 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
DNSimpleIONOS Hosting
Likelihood to Recommend
DNSimple
When you have several DNS domains contracted with different domain providers, you must manage each domain with its corresponding provider. With the DNSimple portal we can bring together all domains in one service and manage them from its portal. In this way we can register the domains with the providers that offer us the best price at all times but we will always manage all the domains from the same portal.
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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
DNSimple
  • Domain management.
  • Configuring SSL certificates
  • http to https redirection
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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.
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Cons
DNSimple
  • It only has 3 pricing plans, but they are very flexible.
  • Domain transfers can sometimes be slow
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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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Likelihood to Renew
DNSimple
It is a product that has helped us a lot in simplifying domain management and allowing us to provide a more agile service to our clients.
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IONOS, Inc
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Reliability and Availability
DNSimple
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IONOS, Inc
In over 8 years of operations, we have not had a single outage that affected us.
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Performance
DNSimple
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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
DNSimple
They all have similar functions, but I decided on DNSimple because of its prices and the fact that it does not have your domain "kidnapped", since you can have your domain at any time to move it to another provider. It also offers very personalized support to customers and tries to solve any problems that arise.
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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.
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Scalability
DNSimple
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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).
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Return on Investment
DNSimple
  • Faster management from a single portal, which saves time/money in management
  • Centralization of all SSL certificates
  • Redirection from http to https so we save money on updating all the links to our web pages.
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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.
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