Public Cloud

You can access Public Cloud right from this page! Click any of the links throughout the page to head over to the IONOS website and purchase your chosen Cloud package.

Fasthosts and IONOS Cloud are sister companies belonging to the same corporate group, IONOS SE. IONOS Cloud is the Cloud infrastructure arm of the group and Fasthosts refers customers to IONOS Public Cloud.

The IONOS Cloud Compute Engine is a so-called public cloud and offers infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service. It is supplemented by the IONOS Managed Private Cloud powered by VMware.

Unlike a private cloud, the public cloud offers services available to the general public and not exclusively for a specific organisation. A private cloud is either operated by the organisation itself or provided exclusively by a service provider for this specific organisation – as is the case with IONOS private cloud services.

The use of a public cloud can be restricted by strict legal data protection regulations or by security concerns. In certain industries, regulation prohibits the transfer of data to external service providers who do not meet the strict data protection requirements. In such cases, either the IONOS Cloud Compute Engine (with maximum security under the US CLOUD Act), a private cloud, or a hybrid cloud (a mixture of private and public clouds), is the best option.

The hybrid cloud offers combined access to the services of a public cloud and a private cloud depending on the requirements of the respective application. Compared to the public cloud, an advantage of the private cloud is that the performance of the services is influenced even less by other customers than in the kernel-centred virtualisation of the IONOS Cloud Compute Engine.

Scalability, elasticity, and robustness are the most important characteristics of any cloud-based application. An enterprise cloud computing architecture must be designed based on these characteristics. In particular, it must be able to cope with strongly fluctuating loads on the virtual systems and enormous amounts of data, while at the same time making sure the operations run in an efficient and economical manner. Redundancy, regular snapshots, and backups are mandatory.

Measures for building a cloud architecture at enterprise level:

• Availability at cluster level or even as a high availability application including fail-over and continued data consistency
• Distribution of entities including mirroring of the applications and virtual data centres, and also with the help of geographical redundancy (in parallel operation of both the infrastructure and the programming of an application)
• Scalability without interrupting ongoing operations and should be as vertical as possible to save resources; in addition, enable the development of shared-nothing systems
• Automation, which must be made possible with the help of microservices, especially in times of agile software development and CI/CD
• Configuration management, security design, access management including logging or multi-client capability
• Step-by-step migration and preparation of the cloud for hybrid or multi-cloud operation
• Prevention of lock-in through proprietary cloud technologies

Our data centres are ISO 27001-certified, meaning they meet the best practices for information security. They're also PCI-DSS compliant, protecting your data from theft and misuse with both physical and virtual security measures.

You can either contact Fasthosts support team or IONOS Cloud – both will be able to answer your questions and point you in the right direction. You can call Fasthosts on 0800 0612 153, or IONOS Cloud on 0333 336 5691.