Server hosting can be found in the portfolio of many different providers. As a rule, there are not only several performance plans, but also different types of servers. At IONOS, you have the choice between the following three variants:
- vServer: With a vServer from IONOS you get access to fully virtualized hardware resources. You pay a fixed monthly price for this.
- Cloud Server: The IONOS Cloud Servers are also based on fully virtualized server resources. However, billing here is on a per-minute basis.
- Dedicated Server: A Dedicated Server from IONOS offers you dedicated and exclusive enterprise hardware.
With both vServers and Cloud Servers, you only rent virtualized server power. However, this has no influence on availability and performance, with an IONOS guarantee of 99.9 percent for all customers of both models. The biggest difference between the two models is the billing method. With a vServer, you pay the agreed fixed costs at the end of the month; with a cloud server, you are only billed for the service that you have actually used.
The dedicated server model offers an alternative that relies entirely on dedicated hardware. However, the particularly powerful setups also have their price.