IONOS vs Nine
IONOS – Future-proof cloud infrastructure from Germany
IONOS is a German hosting and domain provider that is offering more and more cloud computing products.
The company was formerly known as 1&1 Internet. It was rebranded to reflect the development from a pure hosting provider to a service provider with a broad portfolio.
The public cloud service encompasses the typical building blocks around VPCs, managed database, managed Kubernetes, etc.
Nine – Swiss-made Cloud Mastery
Nine is an application platform by Nine Internet Solutions in Switzerland. While Nine Internet Solutions offers classic colocation and managed hosting solutions, the distinctive product is the Deploio application engine.
Nine is currently brought to the world from two data centers in the Zürich region in Switzerland.
- HeadquartersMontabaur, Deutschland
- Parent companyUnited Internet AG
- Cloud since2020
- ISINDE000A3E00M1
- Websitewww.ionos.de
- HeadquartersZurich, Switzerland
- Parent companyNine Internet Solutions AG
- ISIN100% employee-owned
- Websitenine.ch
Product Comparison
Sovereignty
Sovereignty assessment side by side, following the EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework with its 8 objectives. Higher is better; the area shows each provider's coverage across all objectives.
Disclaimer: this assessment is conducted as an outside-in analysis, based on public information and, for some questions, educated guessing. The results may be factually wrong and in no way replace your own due diligence.
IONOS
77.2 %
SEAL 2
Nine
46.4 %
SEAL 1
Data Centres
| Country | City | IONOS | Nine |
|---|---|---|---|
 France | Paris | IONOS | — |
 Germany | Berlin | IONOS | — |
| Frankfurt |
| — | |
 Spain | Logroño | IONOS | — |
 United Kingdom | London | IONOS | — |
| Worcester | IONOS | — | |
 United States | Las Vegas | IONOS | — |
| Lenexa | IONOS | — | |
| Newark | IONOS | — | |
 Unknown | Unknown | — |
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Certifications
| Certification | Description | IONOS | Nine |
|---|---|---|---|
 BSI C5 | German cloud security catalogue | ✓ | — |
 ISO 20000 | International standard for IT service management | ✓ | — |
| ISO 27001 | World's best-known standard for information security management systems (ISMS) | ✓ | ✓ |
| ISO 50001 | Standard for Energy Management System | ✓ | — |
| ISO 9001 | Standard for Quality Management | ✓ | ✓ |
 PCI DSS | Standard regulating protection of payment account data | ✓ | — |
 SOC 1 | Validation of internal controls over financial reporting | ✓ | — |
 SOC 2 | Controls for security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, or privacy | ✓ | — |
 SOC 3 | Controls for security, availability, integrity, confidentiality and privacy for distribution | ✓ | — |