IONOS is the best European host for OpenCart → review
IONOS is an inexpensive and very high-quality European hosting, it has more than a dozen of its own data centers in Europe, the USA and Canada. The range of services has everything you need for novice webmasters and pros. Plus, through IONOS you can register domains in common and European zones (this is the official registrar) at the most friendly prices and receive domain mail.
IONOS uses an original panel of its own design for billing and hosting/server management. It provides official mobile applications. Plus, there is a private cloud (HiDrive, can be used for backups and for any other tasks) and a number of auxiliary services for webmasters (favicon generator, site checker, logo designer, etc.).
Pros:
Large-scale network of data centers. It is the largest hosting provider in Europe. You can choose any of the locations.
Huge selection of hosting types and configurations (especially dedicated and virtual servers).
Installation of popular opensource engines (including OpenCart) is performed in one click.
Special tools and services for e-commerce (connection of payment aggregators, delivery services, integration with social networks and marketplaces).
Shared hosting performance can be increased on demand (due to resource expansion options). There are unlimited rates.
Free Wildcard SSL Certificates.
Always up-to-date versions of PHP with the ability to switch to older (no longer officially supported) versions.
DDoS protection, firewall and its own CDN network (RailGun).
Disk space for VPS and dedicated servers can be quickly increased using SAN network storage.
Both VPS and dedicated servers are allowed to upload their own ISO images. There is a ready-made system for creating (storing) backups.
There is a reliable cloud infrastructure for especially large projects.
24/7 technical support in different languages.
Moneyback - 30 days.
Minuses:
Shared hosting plans use slow HDDs.
Web-mail is always a separate service, even if you rent a dedicated or virtual server, you won’t be able to launch your mailings from it, you will need to motivate the unblocking of port 25.
Expansion packages (performance improvements) and many other options are paid.
A special benefit when paying can be obtained only within a specified period - for each type of hosting and even for its own tariff (usually from 3 to 12 months).
Despite the multilingual technical support, there is no Russian language in the list of available ones.
No registration of RU/RF domains.
Hosting cost:
General (shared) hosting:
Essential - from $4/month. One site, 10 GB of disk space, free webmail, basic server resources and a free domain (for a year).
Business - from 0.5 $ / month. Any number of sites and unlimited disk, gift domain and professional web-mail.
Expert – from $8/month. Maximum server resources, free access to CDN and site scanning for viruses.
VPS hosting with KVM virtualization - from $2/month.
Dedicated hosting (guaranteed resources with administration) – from $45/month.
Dedicated servers with administration – from $47/month.
All of the above services are fully refundable within 30 days.
Dedicated (physical) servers with self-management - from 65 $ / month.
Cloud servers (including ready-made builds with pre-installed CMS OpenCart) – from $4/month.
To test all the possibilities of cloud and dedicated servers, a $100 credit is issued (valid for 1 month).