Start
US$3.00/mo
Same price while you stay on your planor US$30.00/yr billed yearly
1 site · 5 mailboxes · 10 GB storage
InternationalTheir prices read 2026-09-29
IONOS vs KapsuleHost
Thinking of leaving IONOS? Compare what each plan includes, line by line, with every figure of theirs dated and sourced. Free tools move your site across.
IONOSPlus
- Entry price
- US$1.00/mo
- Renewal
- US$14.00/mo
3-year costUS$348.00
Web Hosting Start- Entry price
- US$3.00/mo
- Renewal
- US$3.00/moPrice Lock Promise
3-year costUS$90.00
Five things you get by moving from IONOS.
01Your price is locked while you stay on the plan
Our Price Lock Promise holds your renewal price at whatever you signed up for, for as long as you stay on the plan. It is written into the contract you can read before you spend anything.
02One price, first year and every year
The number on the plan card is what you pay at signup and at every renewal after it, for as long as you stay on the plan.
03One price, in your own currency
You are billed in your own currency, not converted from another one at a rate you did not choose. Each currency has its own catalogue price, and that is the price the charge is built from.
04Kora answers straight away, at any hour
Kora answers straight away, at any hour. When you need a person, our team picks it up.
05A New Zealand company you can look up
Kapsule Group Limited is registered in New Zealand on a public register, so you can check who you are buying from in a single search.
What comes with your plan.
This is what the plan price buys, line by line.
IONOSOpening priceUS$3.00/moPlus US$1.00/mo; Essential US$4.00/mo with a 1-year term
What you pay when you renewUS$3.00/moPlus US$14.00/mo; Essential US$8.00/mo
Email on the entry planFive includedEssential: 1 email address; Plus: 4 email addresses
SSL certificateIssued and renewed for you1 DV Wildcard
CDNEvery Web Hosting planStarter, Plus and Ultimate; not Essential
Money-back window30 days on your first hosting payment, for new customers, on the Refund Policy's conditions30-day money-back guarantee
The tools that move you here from IONOS are free.
The website and mailbox migration tools are free on every hosting plan, and Kora runs them with you. For a big or a delicate setup, one of our engineers can carry the whole move out for you at a price you agree first.
Start on Web Hosting Start.
US$3.00/mo, held at that price for as long as you stay on the plan. A free SSL certificate, nightly backups kept thirty nights and mailboxes on your own domain come with it, and the free migration tools bring you here from IONOS.
Pro
US$9.00/mo
Same price while you stay on your planor US$84.00/yr billed yearly
10 sites · 25 mailboxes · 50 GB storage
Scale
US$21.00/mo
Same price while you stay on your planor US$204.00/yr billed yearly
25 sites · 100 mailboxes · 200 GB storage
What buyers ask us about IONOS.
These are the questions buyers send us while they are deciding between IONOS and us, answered the way one of our own engineers would answer them.
Ways To Reach UsThe table above shows IONOS's own published price for year one and for renewal, read on 2026-09-29, or says plainly where their page does not list a figure. Check their current rate before you decide. Ours comes from our catalogue as the page loads, and it renews at the same price, on the same plan (Terms 7.5).
The website and mailbox migration tools are free on every hosting plan, and Kora runs them with you. For a big or a delicate setup, one of our engineers can carry the whole move out for you at a price you agree first. A person from our team makes first contact within 2 New Zealand business hours of your order, and the work is finished in one to two business days. Moving your domain registration is separate. For most extensions, a transfer costs one year's renewal and adds that year to your domain. Transfers of .nz, .co.nz and .uk domains are free.
No. We build your site here on an address of its own while the one you have on IONOS carries on exactly as it is, and your domain points here only on the day you decide. For seven days after your site goes live here, one click takes you back to your old host, or shows exactly what to restore if your DNS is at your own registrar.
Yes. You can leave the registration where it is and point the domain here by changing its nameservers, or move the registration to us too. For most domains a transfer takes five to seven days; a .nz domain usually moves the same day, often within hours.
The certificate, nightly backups with thirty nights kept, mailboxes on your own domain, the migration tools and the CDN, on every Web Hosting plan; the size of the plan is the only thing that changes.
Kora answers straight away, at any hour. When you need a person, our team picks it up.
Yes. If you are a new customer and not satisfied with the Services, you may request a full refund of your first hosting Plan payment by cancelling and submitting a refund request within thirty (30) days of the date of your first paid invoice for that Plan. The guarantee applies to monthly and annual subscriptions to Start, Pro, Scale and Cloud Power. It does not apply to renewal payments, or to Customers who have previously had a KapsuleHost Account or received a refund; clause 1.3 lists every exclusion.
Kapsule Group Limited, a New Zealand company. Kora answers straight away, at any hour. When you need a person, our team picks it up.
IONOS's own page lists each plan's first-year price "with a 1-year term" and, beside it, "Then only" the renewal price: for Plus, US$1.00/mo and then US$14.00/mo, read on 2026-09-29. Check their current rate before you decide. Here, your plan renews at the same price, on the same plan (Terms 7.5).
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