A major corporation or a specialist cloud partner? What sets centron apart from one of Germany’s largest hosting providers.
Proven strengths rather than marketing hyperbole – verified in audits, experienced by customers.
At centron, you’ll be speaking to experts who understand your environment – personal points of contact rather than the anonymous ticket systems of a mass-market provider.
Unrestricted BSI C5:2020 Type 1 certificate for ccloud³ / Managed Cloud, ISO 27001 (IT-Grundschutz), AVV and TOMs – centrally located in the Trust Centre, ready for your audit.
From the €3.12 VM, through Kubernetes and cloud GPUs, to premium fully managed services – a single partner for your entire infrastructure journey.
cProtect replicates data every 15 minutes to a separate fire compartment within the Hallstadt data centre – ransomware protection with a failover system that takes over operation in an emergency.
centron figures are taken from the price list, price calculator and service specification and can be verified. Information on IONOS reflects the publicly available position as of August 2026; only the provider’s current information is authoritative. The Geekbench value comes from our own measurement under identical conditions (4 GB RAM, single core).
| Criterion | centron | IONOS |
|---|---|---|
| Data centres | Own data centre in Hallstadt near Bamberg, further locations in Nuremberg, Coburg and Frankfurt am Main – exclusively Germany | Locations in Germany and internationally, including the USA, UK and Spain |
| Data sovereignty | GDPR; ISO/IEC 27001 based on IT-Grundschutz (BSI-IGZ-0773); ISO 9001; ISO 14001; unqualified BSI C5:2020 Type 1 attestation | GDPR and ISO 27001 for EU locations only; international locations without ISO certificates; BSI C5 attestation |
| Performance | NVMe storage, enterprise-grade hardware; single-core score 1,487 (Geekbench, own measurement) | HDD/SSD/NVMe depending on product, standard hardware; score 931 in the same test |
| Availability | 99.5 % worker/power, 99.8 % HA pool, 99.9 % storage – contractually assured in the service specification | SLA from 99.70 % |
| Support | 24/7 expert support included, German-speaking, personal contacts | Live chat and 24/7 hotline for prospective and existing customers |
| Flexibility | Individually scalable solutions, managed services up to Premium Full Managing | Predefined packages, self-service oriented |
| Security | 24/7 monitoring, camera and alarm system, electronic and biometric access control, plant security, high-performance firewalls | Security glass airlocks, security service, electronic and biometric access control, intrusion detection, video surveillance |
| Sustainability | ISO 14001 certified, green electricity, cold/warm aisle containment, outside-air cooling, recycling | ISO 50001, energy-efficient data centres, green electricity at some locations, CO₂ offsetting at others |
| Billing | Hourly, no minimum term; inbound and S3 traffic free of charge; VMs from €3.12/month | Competitive entry prices, price increase after the initial contract term; VMs from €3.50/month |
IONOS and centron cater to partly different needs – ranging from the mass market to managed enterprise operations. The key factor is your specific scenario: compliance requirements, support needs, workload profile. We’ll work with you to compare the options based precisely on these factors – transparently and using reliable figures from centron.
Note: Information on competitors reflects the publicly available position as of August 2026 and does not claim to be exhaustive; features and prices may have changed since. Only the current information provided by the respective providers is authoritative. The trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners; there are no partnerships. centron prices: entry-level prices plus VAT; details can be found on the product and pricing pages.
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