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It's an alternative, but IONOS honestly fucking sucks as well, so I'm feeling pretty ambivalent about this.
What's wrong with IONOS? Their VPS prices are some of the best out there and reliability has never been an issue for me.
I've had the opposite experience with their cloud services in a professional context. My biggest gripe is with United Internet, the monopolistic company that owns IONOS, 1&1 (an ISP) as well as the ad-ridden, flaming pile of garbage that are GMX and WEB.DE, two of the most popular email service providers in Germany as well as a constant source of pain for anyone operating an Email server. They will ignore common industry standards and best-practices, silently block your mailserver for absolutely no reason, not respond to inquiries and just generally make the internet a slightly worse place for small to medium sized businesses and selfhosters.
This sounds like issues with SPF, DMARC AND DKIM.
You mean you (or your clients) send email to gmx/web recipients and they arent even received/blocked?
Have you checked if your mail server IPs are on a blacklist?
I wasn't looking for technical support. You can do everything correctly and still get your mails randomly marked as spam or not delivered at all. This has happened to us, some of our customers, multiple smaller email providers as well as several municipalities (imagine blackholing government emails, what a grand idea). They don't send sensible return headers, they might not even return your undelivered mail at all, they won't react to any inquiries to their postmaster contact (or anywhere else really), they will blacklist entire IP blocks sometimes. The only way to sidestep any issues with them is to pay a few thousand bucks to enter their ~~cool kids club~~ certified sender alliance, which is what the big marketing firms use to deliver mass amounts of unwanted ads unhindered through their networks.
Ionos used to be 1&1 which had a fairly poor reputation. Not sure what it's become nowadays. Apparently they haven't gotten much better.
Last time with customer service I was actually satisfied. Same with 1&1. They were cooperative and reasonable (unlile Vodafone and Telekom from what I heard)
Well people diss Hetzner too, but I haven't really had any issues with them either. So maybe reputations aren't always something to go by.
They have fairly good prices for small VPS, something like €1-2 and I cannot complain. Perfect for some small self hosting. I cannot comment on their more performant boxes.
1&1 is kind of typical telco, with all the shady stuff and contracts. DSL from them is without any issues. Mobile is kind of problematic, it was fine for past 3-4 years but with their "Fancy 5G net up to 300mbps" has pretty shit so far. Last week I was abroad and my sim would not connect at all. Contacted them via online chat and they said to call them... They fixed it after like 20h
Don't have many problems with IONOS.
Our customers are usually recommended their S3 Object Storage (Very simple price structure)
I personally have the Business E-Mail due to it's price.
It's a bit limited and no DKIM but sufficient for most things.
It is cheap, but the performance leaves much to be desired and their technical support is piss poor.