IONOS VPS Linux S

Decision notes

Auto-generated from plan signals and measurement metadata.

Overview

Provider

IONOS

Promotions: Provider claim: save 50% or more vs leading hosts

Location

Global (5 locations)

IPv4 / IPv6

1 IPv4 | IPv6 available

Traffic

Unlimited traffic

Route tags

ipv6 nvme refund-eligible unmetered-egress vps

Why this plan stands out

Internal score: 28.5. Used for sorting; see scoring methodology .

Score rank (overall)

#949 / 1257

Score rank (provider)

#5 / 6

USD / GB RAM

$2.5 / GB

USD / vCPU

$2.5 / vCPU

• OK NVMe storage
• OK IPv6 available
• OK Refund eligible (30 days, high confidence)
• OK Provider refund policy: no-questions
• OK Value for money

Performance Badges

Achievement badges based on benchmark performance and value metrics. How we test →

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Benchmarks

Latest run: 2025-11-03T00:00:00Z | Method: vpsbenchmarks-yabs

CPU model

AMD EPYC-Milan Processor

Geekbench 6 (single)

1,378 Result

Geekbench 6 (multi)

2,309

GB6 multi / $

461.8

fio 4k read

78.2 MB/s | 20,007 IOPS

fio 4k write

78.4 MB/s | 20,060 IOPS

iperf send (max)

1,870 Mbps

iperf recv (max)

6,570 Mbps

Notes: Source: https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/yabs/ionos-2c-2gb-20251103-434aef (third-party YABS run; reference only)

Benchmarks can vary due to host load and noisy neighbors. See Methodology .

Sources & freshness

Plan lastChecked

2026-01-21

Provider lastChecked

2026-01-11

Recent updates

Based on the internal dataset change log. Always confirm on the provider checkout page.

As of

2026-01-28

Last event

2026-01-21

Change log events

1 total | 1 price | 0 promo | 1 link | last 30d: 1 price, 0 promo, 1 link

Price range (last 90 points)

$2 - $3

Current discount

-40% | regular $5

Latency tiers

Tiers are a normalized signal. Always verify with your own tests.