With the IONOS Cloud Cubes, you only pay for the resources you actually use. This pay-as-you-go (PAYG) rate means that your usage is calculated to the minute. As soon as you delete your server instance, the costs stop being calculated. Since there is no minimum contract period, you have full control. As soon as you stop using the server and delete it, you will be billed proportionally and to the minute.

To stop the costs completely, you have to delete the cloud server, meaning your Cloud Cubes. On the other hand, you can scale horizontally, by adding as many instances as you wish and connect them together via (private) network.

A cloud server is a virtual server that provides you with a complete, web-based IT infrastructure, including computing power, storage space, and network technology. IONOS cloud servers offer flexible options such as Cloud Cubes, which provide a cost-optimized cloud solution without the high costs of maintaining a physical server. If you rent a cloud server, you have all the resources you need to carry out your private or corporate web projects. You can easily process, exchange, secure, and manage data either web-based or location-independent. You can also run various data-supported applications over the web and make them available to others. Server resources that you're not currently using will be available to others. Thanks to the shared structures, cloud servers are particularly cost-effective.

In contrast to VPS (virtual private servers "VPS"), where you can only use the server resources to a precisely defined extent, cloud servers like Cloud Cubes are horizontally scalable. If your requirements change, you can adapt the allocated server resources at any time and in real time. Payment is based on the resources you use: you only pay for what you actually use. There is no predetermined monthly price.

As a cloud server provider, IONOS also offers you numerous additional features that are essential in high-performance cloud environments. Features such as load balancing and full root access (access to your server's configuration files) as well as shared storage, add-on block storage, and much more are all included. Take a look at the services we offer and build your virtual data center today!

Another option is a dedicated server. In this "top tier" of server hosting, all server resources are available exclusively to you, so you don't have to share them with anyone. However, this variant is more expensive. It is best to check in advance exactly which scope of services you really need. Our skilled support team will be happy to answer your questions.

The data security of all our products and services is a top priority for IONOS. Of course, this also applies to cloud server hosting. With us, you'll benefit not only from encrypted data transmission, but also from encrypted storage and data backups. Our digital and physical security infrastructure protects your data comprehensively. Our data centers, modern high-performance servers, and geo-redundant structures play their part, as do our central firewall and the latest SIEM and IDS/IPS technologies, which protect our security network from unwanted access.

You can set up your cloud server in just a few, easy steps - even without prior administrator knowledge.

Use Cloud Cubes for flexible, scalable workloads tailored to your project’s needs. They're ideal for running virtual machines and Cubes together in the same virtual data center or LAN, making it easy to allocate resources for non-critical tasks without extra admin effort.

Cloud Cubes are also well-suited for creating low-cost, on-demand instances for web applications, software development, and testing. They provide the necessary resources to run websites, apps, or gaming platforms, allowing you to scale without overcommitting to infrastructure.

For automated development environments, Cloud Cubes can be integrated into build, test, and deployment pipelines using APIs, SDKs, and configuration tools. Configure resources through the Data Center Designer, adding NICs and network block storage as needed, with usage billed to the minute.

Set up your Cloud Cubes, the IONOS affordable cloud servers, in minutes without programming skills.

1. Create admin access with 2-factor authentication.
2. Configure server, storage, and network settings via drag-and-drop in the Data Center Designer or alternatively with an API.
3. Start operations shortly after configuring your virtual data center.

Yes, Cloud Cubes, the IONOS affordable cloud servers, meets small and medium business needs with flexible resources, including CPU, RAM, and storage. Options include NVMe storage and expandable HDD or SSD block storage.

For larger organizations that need even more performance and server resources, we recommend the Compute Engine.

Supported databases include MySQL, MariaDB, and MongoDB (with licensing fee).