--- title: "NameHero vs IONOS: which is better in 2026?" url: "https://hostidea.com/compare/ionos-vs-namehero" canonical: "https://hostidea.com/compare/ionos-vs-namehero" author: "Jennifer T." generated: "2026-10-15" note: "Markdown twin generated at build time from the same content as the HTML page. The HTML page is canonical." --- # NameHero vs IONOS NameHero and IONOS compared on measured uptime, response time, pricing and features from our own tests. NameHero scores higher overall. By [Jennifer T.](https://hostidea.com/authors/jennifer-t) ยท Updated Oct 14, 2026 We may earn a commission when you buy through our links. Rankings come from the published methodology and sourced data, not from commissions. [Disclosure](https://hostidea.com/disclosure). ## Verdict [7.3 out of 10](https://hostidea.com/methodology#scoring) [NameHero](https://hostidea.com/reviews/namehero)Wins overall cPanel host since 2015 with NVMe, LiteSpeed and stated cores and RAM: cheap for three years, four times the price after [7.1 out of 10](https://hostidea.com/methodology#scoring) [IONOS](https://hostidea.com/reviews/ionos) The former 1&1: unlimited sites and traffic from $8 a month at renewal, with a free domain and wildcard SSL NameHero wins 4 of the six sub-scores and comes out ahead overall (7.3 vs 7.1). ## How do the scores compare? NameHero leads on 4 sub-scores, IONOS on 2. Higher is better. | | [NameHero](https://hostidea.com/reviews/namehero) | [IONOS](https://hostidea.com/reviews/ionos) | | --- | --- | --- | | Performance | 7.5 | 6.5 | | Uptime | 6.5 | 7.5 | | Support | 7.5 | 6.5 | | Features | 8.0 | 7.5 | | Value | 7.0 | 7.5 | | Ease of use | 7.5 | 7.0 | ## Which one is faster and more reliable? | | [NameHero](https://hostidea.com/reviews/namehero) | [IONOS](https://hostidea.com/reviews/ionos) | | --- | --- | --- | | Overall score | 7.3 | 7.1 | | Uptime (published)Kripesh Adwani 365 d vs Cybernews 14 d; methods differ | 99.98% | 100.00% | | Response time (published)Kripesh Adwani vs Cybernews; methods differ | 24 ms | 1749 ms | ## Which one costs less? On renewal, NameHero is cheaper ($11.64/mo vs $14.00/mo). Intro prices need the listed term. Prices verified Oct 14, 2026 (NameHero) and Oct 14, 2026 (IONOS). USD. | | [NameHero](https://hostidea.com/reviews/namehero) | [IONOS](https://hostidea.com/reviews/ionos) | | --- | --- | --- | | Cheapest plan | Starter Cloud | Plus | | Intro price | $2.91/mo | $1.00/mo | | Renewal price | $11.64/mo | $14.00/mo | | Required term | 36 months | 12 months | | Websites | 1 | unlimited | | Storage | 25 GB | 350 GB | | Money back | 30 days | 30 days | ## What does each include? | | [NameHero](https://hostidea.com/reviews/namehero) | [IONOS](https://hostidea.com/reviews/ionos) | | --- | --- | --- | | Free domain | Turbo Cloud and Business Cloud on a 24 or 36-month term; not on Starter or Plus | One domain free for the first year on every plan: .us, .ca, .com, .net, .org, .info, .me, .biz or .online | | Free SSL | Free and auto-renewing SSL on every plan | One DV wildcard certificate on Essential, Starter and Plus; unlimited wildcard certificates on Ultimate | | Backups | Nightly and weekly backups listed in the comparison table; HeroVault offsite backups with 30 days of retention cost $6.99 a month in the cart | Daily backup of storage and databases with data recovery, every plan | | Free migration | Complimentary migrations by the Level III team | No | | Free CDN | QUIC.cloud CDN listed in the comparison table | Starter, Plus and Ultimate; not on Essential | | Caching | LiteSpeed web server with LiteSpeed Cache; the Turbo tier on the two upper plans | Server compression and HTTP/2 listed; no caching layer named on the plan page | | Staging | No | No | | Email | Unlimited accounts; mailbox quota 1 GB on Starter, 2 GB on Plus, unlimited above; 50 or 350 emails an hour | 1, 2, 4 or 5 accounts of 2 GB by plan, with forwarding, webmail and anti-spam | | Guaranteed resources | Cores and RAM printed per plan, 1 and 1 GB up to 4 and 4 GB, on a partitioned cloud environment | Not stated | | Data center choice | US (Lenexa, Kansas), London and Canada on the plan cards; the comparison table lists US for every plan | No | | Uptime guarantee | No | 99.99% in the general terms, with a credit for the month proportional to the downtime, on request and at IONOS's discretion | | SSH | Jailed SSH access listed in the comparison table | Not stated | | Security | Security Shield on every plan; HeroGuard with premium SSL, malware scanning and monitoring costs $9.99 a month in the cart | Daily malware scanning (basic, or advanced with automatic removal on Ultimate), DDoS protection, geo-redundancy | | Phone support | 1-855-984-6263, 9 AM to 5 PM Central per the about page; chat and tickets around the clock | 24/7, with a personal consultant | | SSH, SFTP, WP-CLI and Git | Not stated | Every plan, with 200 SFTP accounts, Perl and Python | | PHP versions | Not stated | 8.4, 8.3 and 8.2, with paid extended support for 5.6 and later | | Resource limits | Not stated | CPU priority 1x, 3x, 5x and 10x by plan; 262,144 inodes on every plan; cron jobs 10, 25, 50 and 100 | | Websites and traffic | Not stated | Unlimited websites and unlimited traffic on every plan; 5,000 subdomains | | Windows hosting | Not stated | No | ## Company facts | | [NameHero](https://hostidea.com/reviews/namehero) | [IONOS](https://hostidea.com/reviews/ionos) | | --- | --- | --- | | Control panel | cPanel | IONOS's own control panel (no cPanel) | | Data centers | 3 | 2 | | Support channels | chat, ticket, phone, knowledge-base | chat, phone, email, knowledge-base | | Founded | 2015 | 2018 | Visit NameHero (affiliate link: /go/namehero)Visit IONOS (affiliate link: /go/ionos)