IONOS is usually described as best for scalability and low-cost entry. That is a fair description. Here is where we differ.
What Queantic does that a host does not
- Nothing to set up. No server, no cPanel, no WordPress install, no PHP version to pick. You choose a template and the site is live on an address with SSL already issued.
- Mailboxes are part of the plan. Real mail at your own address, as many as you need, on every plan — not a per-mailbox add-on and not a trial that lapses.
- Analytics are already wired in. Not a plugin you install and a dashboard you learn: the numbers arrive with the site, and they are written as what to change on which page, in order of impact.
- Traffic is not a bill. You pay for pages, never for visitors, so a good week never turns into an overage.
Where each of us fits
IONOS
- A very low first-term price across a broad product range
- You pick the product tier, then administer what you bought
- Scaling means moving to a larger plan you configure
- Email and extras are tiered and priced separately
- Long contract terms are common; check the renewal rate
Queantic
- One price per month, and the renewal is the same price
- Nothing to configure, at any size
- Traffic never changes the bill — you pay for pages
- Mailboxes included on every plan, however small
- You can leave with your content; the domain is yours
Questions worth asking either of us
We would rather you decide on answers than on adjectives. These are the questions that actually separate hosting plans, and you should put all of them to us as well as to IONOS.
- What does it cost on renewal, not in the first term?
- Who installs the updates, and who is responsible when one breaks the site?
- What happens to the bill on the week the site does unusually well?
- How many mailboxes are included, and what do they cost after that?
- When traffic arrives, what tells me which page to change next?
IONOS is a good choice if you want a server and you are happy to run what sits on it. Queantic is the better choice if you would rather not have a server at all — and would rather the site told you what to fix next.
We describe IONOS at the level of how their kind of hosting works, not their current plans — those change, and we would rather send you to check than tell you something stale. Everything stated about Queantic is what our plans do today.