Pressable vs IONOS
Pressable and IONOS compared on measured uptime, response time, pricing and features from our own tests. Pressable scores higher overall.
By Jennifer T. · Updated
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Verdict
PressableWins overall
Automattic's managed WordPress host: dedicated PHP workers, four origins, failover, a 100 percent SLA, from $25 a month
The former 1&1: unlimited sites and traffic from $8 a month at renewal, with a free domain and wildcard SSL
Pressable wins 5 of the six sub-scores and comes out ahead overall (7.7 vs 7.1).
How do the scores compare?
Pressable leads on 5 sub-scores, IONOS on 1. Higher is better.
Which one is faster and more reliable?
Which one costs less?
On renewal, IONOS is cheaper ($14.00/mo vs $20.83/mo). Intro prices need the listed term.
What does each include?
| Pressable | IONOS | |
|---|---|---|
| Free domain | No | One domain free for the first year on every plan: .us, .ca, .com, .net, .org, .info, .me, .biz or .online |
| Free SSL | Included; a Jetpack Security licence comes with every plan | One DV wildcard certificate on Essential, Starter and Plus; unlimited wildcard certificates on Ultimate |
| Backups | Hourly database and daily full backups, restorable from the site dashboard, per the support policy | Daily backup of storage and databases with data recovery, every plan |
| Free migration | Unlimited site migrations on every plan | No |
| Free CDN | Built-in edge cache and global CDN across more than 24 edge locations | Starter, Plus and Ultimate; not on Essential |
| Caching | Edge cache, OPcache, page cache and query cache | Server compression and HTTP/2 listed; no caching layer named on the plan page |
| Staging | One staging and one sandbox site per WordPress install on every Signature plan | No |
| No | 1, 2, 4 or 5 accounts of 2 GB by plan, with forwarding, webmail and anti-spam | |
| Dedicated resources | 5 dedicated PHP workers (5 vCPUs) per site with 512 MB each and burst capacity; no shared memory pools | Not stated |
| Data center choice | Los Angeles, Dallas, Ashburn or Amsterdam per site at creation, with an account default; a secondary server in another region takes over on failure | No |
| Uptime guarantee | 100 percent network, infrastructure and hardware SLA with a credit of 5 percent of the monthly fee per 30 minutes of downtime, up to the full month | 99.99% in the general terms, with a credit for the month proportional to the downtime, on request and at IONOS's discretion |
| Developer tools | SSH and WP-CLI described on the features pages, an API, an MCP server, DupliKits site templates, multisite and headless support | Not stated |
| Security | Jetpack Security, malware monitoring and threat response, Secure Hosting Alliance certification | Daily malware scanning (basic, or advanced with automatic removal on Ultimate), DDoS protection, geo-redundancy |
| Phone support | No | 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 |