IONOS attracts with VPS generous in cores and disk, 24/7 phone support and €3 promotions for the first three months. But the base rate is markedly higher, datacenters are in Germany, Spain, the UK or the USA, and Windows is an add-on. OnetSolutions hosts in France, at a fixed price, with no commitment. Here is the line-by-line comparison.
IONOS wins on spec generosity: its VPS M+ lines up 4 vCPU, 4 GB and 120 GB NVMe for €9/month excl. VAT (€3 for the first three months), and its 24/7 phone support with a personal advisor is a real asset. Opposite, our GP-4 (2 vCPU, 4 GB, 80 GB SSD or 40 GB NVMe) costs €6.39/month excl. VAT yearly — cheaper outside the promotion, with half the cores.
On 8 GB and 16 GB, the price gap widens in our favour: VPS L+ at €18 excl. VAT and VPS XL+ at €38 excl. VAT versus €12.79 and €23.99 excl. VAT with us yearly, with no €10 setup fee. And our daily off-site backups, snapshots and Windows Server 2025 licence are included, where IONOS bills Windows as an add-on.
In practice: you want many cores and lots of NVMe, throughput up to 1 Gbit/s and an advisor on the phone, and Germany or Spain suit you as a location — IONOS. You want a lower fixed price outside promotions, your data in France and French-speaking technical support under 2 hours — OnetSolutions.
Every row is based on both providers' public pages on the date shown. Prices excl. VAT per month; for IONOS the base rate is shown with the three-month promotion in brackets.
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| Criterion | IONOS | OnetSolutions |
|---|---|---|
| 4 GB size | VPS M+: 4 vCPU, 4 GB, 120 GB NVMe — €9 excl. VAT (€3 for the first 3 months) + €10 setup fee | GP-4: 2 vCPU, 4 GB, 80 GB SSD or 40 GB NVMe — €7.99 excl. VAT, €6.39 yearly, no fee |
| 8 GB size | VPS L+: 6 vCPU, 8 GB, 240 GB NVMe — €18 excl. VAT (€5 for the first 3 months) | GP-8: 4 vCPU, 8 GB, 160 GB SSD or 80 GB NVMe — €15.99 excl. VAT, €12.79 yearly |
| 16 GB size | VPS XL+: 8 vCPU, 16 GB, 480 GB NVMe — €38 excl. VAT (€9 for the first 3 months) | GP-16: 8 vCPU, 16 GB, 320 GB SSD or 160 GB NVMe — €29.99 excl. VAT, €23.99 yearly |
| Setup fee | €10 per order | None |
| Data location | Germany, Spain, UK or USA — no France | France only, ISO 27001-certified datacenter |
| Traffic and throughput | Unlimited, up to 1 Gbit/s | Unlimited, 150 to 300 Mbps (500 Mbps on Performance) |
| Included support | 24/7 phone and personal advisor | French-speaking technicians 7 days a week, reply under 2 hours |
| Backups and snapshots | Fast restore images included; external backups via additional services | Daily off-site backups and one-click snapshots, included |
| Windows Server | Available as a paid add-on | Windows Server 2025 with licence included from GP-4 |
| Anti-DDoS | Included | Included |
| Ecosystem | Load balancer, cloning, private network, block and object storage as add-ons | VPS, VPC, GPU, web hosting, domains: one console |
Sources: ionos.fr/serveurs/vps, retrieved on 18 August 2026; OnetSolutions price list in force on the same date. Offers change: report any discrepancy and we will correct it.
Start from your real workload: IONOS VPS are generous in cores, but most servers migrated to us were using only part of them.
| Profile | At IONOS | At OnetSolutions | Order |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brochure site, VPN, bot, testing | VPS M+ 4 vCPU · 4 GB · 120 GB NVMe €9/month excl. VAT (€3 for the first 3 months) + €10 fee | GP-4 2 vCPU · 4 GB · 80 GB SSD or 40 GB NVMe €6.39/month excl. VAT yearly, €7.99 monthly | Choose this plan |
| Small business, agency, shop, business app | VPS L+ 6 vCPU · 8 GB · 240 GB NVMe €18/month excl. VAT (€5 for the first 3 months) | GP-8 4 vCPU · 8 GB · 160 GB SSD or 80 GB NVMe €12.79/month excl. VAT yearly, €15.99 monthly | Choose this plan |
| Technical team, SaaS, Windows Server | VPS XL+ 8 vCPU · 16 GB · 480 GB NVMe €38/month excl. VAT (€9 for the first 3 months) | GP-16 8 vCPU · 16 GB · 320 GB SSD or 160 GB NVMe · Windows licence included €23.99/month excl. VAT yearly, €29.99 monthly | Choose this plan |
Need more CPU or 500 Mbps? The AMD EPYC Performance range starts at €7.99/month excl. VAT. Discover the Performance range
The reasons that come up in the migration requests we handle, without embellishment.
€3 for three months, then €9; €5 then €18; €9 then €38. At OnetSolutions, the first month's price is the thirty-sixth's, and it is below the IONOS base rate on every plan compared.
IONOS hosts in Germany, Spain, the UK or the USA. At OnetSolutions, your data stays in France, with a French company.
Daily off-site backups and one-click snapshots are included on every VPS, with no additional service to subscribe to.
Windows Server 2025 with the licence in the price from GP-4, where IONOS bills Windows as an add-on.
No €10 at order, no surprise on the first invoice: the VPS is delivered in 10 seconds at the displayed price.
The IONOS advisor is a real plus, but often a sales contact. Here, the person replying under 2 hours is a technician with access to your infrastructure.
An honest comparison also says when to stay. In these situations, we advise you not to migrate.
Permanent phone support with a dedicated contact is an IONOS specialty. Our support is responsive and technical, but works primarily by ticket.
At equal size, IONOS provides more vCPU and much more NVMe (120 to 480 GB). If your workload is truly CPU or disk intensive, compare with our Performance range.
IONOS throughput up to 1 Gbit/s exceeds our 300 Mbps on General Purpose and 500 Mbps on Performance.
Domains, e-mail, web hosting, cloud: if your VPS is part of an IONOS setup managed from one account, moving it alone makes little sense.
A well-run migration is invisible: you switch once everything is validated, and your IONOS VPS stays in place until the last moment.
Pick the plan recommended in the table above and your operating system: the machine is delivered in 10 seconds with its dedicated IP.
Copy sites, databases and files over SSH or rsync from your IONOS VPS. Our team walks you through it step by step if you wish.
Test your applications on the OnetSolutions VPS IP before any switch: your IONOS VPS keeps serving visitors in the meantime.
Lower the TTL, point your domains to the new IP, verify, then cancel the IONOS VPS according to your contract terms.
Before switching DNS, take a one-click snapshot of your new VPS: you freeze a validated state and can roll back in seconds if a post-migration setting goes wrong.
Price, promotion, location, migration, support: concrete answers for those comparing IONOS and OnetSolutions.
Outside promotions, yes on every plan compared: GP-4 at €6.39/month excl. VAT yearly versus €9 for the VPS M+, GP-8 at €12.79 versus €18 for the VPS L+, GP-16 at €23.99 versus €38 for the VPS XL+, without the €10 setup fee. During the three IONOS promotional months (€3, €5 or €9), IONOS is cheaper; over a full year, OnetSolutions wins.
Its VPS are hosted in Germany, Spain, the UK or the USA, chosen at order. OnetSolutions hosts exclusively in France, in an ISO 27001-certified datacenter.
Order a VPS sized for your real workload: it is delivered in 10 seconds. Then transfer your files and databases over rsync or SSH, test on the new IP, then switch DNS and cancel at IONOS. Our support assists you at every step.
No, if you proceed in order: your IONOS VPS keeps responding while you copy and validate everything on the new VPS. The only visible transition is the DNS change, almost instant if you lower the TTL in advance.
Differently: IONOS highlights a 24/7 phone line and a personal advisor. At OnetSolutions, a French-speaking technician with access to your infrastructure replies 7 days a week in under 2 hours. If you value the permanent phone line, IONOS has the edge; if you value talking to someone who can act on your server, it is us.
Yes: Windows Server 2025 with the licence included in the price from GP-4. At IONOS, Windows is a paid add-on.
Yes: daily backups stored in a remote datacenter, included on every VPS, plus one-click snapshots. IONOS includes fast restore images and offers additional backup services.
No, none. IONOS charges €10 per order.
Order monthly with no commitment and no setup fee, migrate at your pace with our team, and keep IONOS until everything is validated.
IONOS is a trademark of IONOS SE, cited solely to identify the offers compared. Information about IONOS comes from its public pages on the date shown and may have changed since. This comparison is produced by OnetSolutions and is neither approved nor sponsored by IONOS.
