As of 29 Oct 2026, the panel rates IONOS MyWebsite 2.5/5 and STRATO Homepage-Baukasten 2.5/5 in Website Builders. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 2 of the 6 judges pick IONOS MyWebsite and 3 pick STRATO Homepage-Baukasten, 1 calls it a tie. IONOS MyWebsite scores higher on 3 of 7 criteria (Forms, bookings & business features, Editor, templates & design control and SEO, analytics & visibility). STRATO Homepage-Baukasten scores higher on 4 of 7 criteria (Hosting, domains & portability, European sovereignty, Imprint, privacy & cookie compliance, plus 1 more). Provenance — IONOS MyWebsite: EU-Made; STRATO Homepage-Baukasten: EU-Made. Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made.
The panel splits. IONOS MyWebsite leads on editor and design (5.0 vs 4.2, four lean IONOS, one STRATO, one tie) and forms and business (4.0 vs 3.0, five lean IONOS). STRATO Homepage-Baukasten leads on hosting and portability (5.7 vs 5.0, four lean STRATO), sovereignty (5.5 vs 4.8, four lean STRATO), legal compliance (6.2 vs 5.8, two lean STRATO, four tie) and pricing transparency (7.2 vs 7.0, one lean STRATO, five tie). SEO and marketing sits closest (4.0 vs 3.7, two lean IONOS, four tie). Weighted totals split: the freelance designer has IONOS 4.8 to STRATO 4.3, the marketing lead IONOS 4.8 to 4.7, the data protection officer 5 to 5, the skeptic STRATO 5.3 to IONOS 5.2; no totals appear for the small-business owner and practice owner. Sovereignty attributes: STRATO's data residency reads EU-only, ownership unknown; IONOS's ownership reads listed, data residency unknown; both list US Cloud Act subprocessor exposure.
Choose IONOS MyWebsite if
You need the editor the panel favors: four judges lean IONOS MyWebsite on editor and design (5.0 vs 4.2), where the skeptic and small-business owner scored the AI generator and template gallery at 6.
Forms and business features decide your choice: five judges lean IONOS MyWebsite there (4.0 vs 3.0).
Your buying mirrors the freelance designer's or the marketing lead's view: their weighted totals are IONOS MyWebsite 4.8 to STRATO 4.3, and 4.8 to 4.7.
You want an owner on the record: IONOS MyWebsite's ownership attribute reads 'listed', while STRATO Homepage-Baukasten's reads 'unknown'.
SEO and marketing tools are your focus: two judges lean IONOS MyWebsite (4.0 vs 3.7) and four tie, with SEO and analytics tools named on its pages.
Choose STRATO Homepage-Baukasten if
Your policy requires data residency in the EU: STRATO Homepage-Baukasten's data residency attribute reads EU-only; IONOS MyWebsite's reads unknown.
Hosting matters most to your team: four judges lean STRATO on hosting and portability (5.7 vs 5.0), citing German data centres, a permanently included domain with SSL and 10 GB webspace.
You need legal texts that update automatically: two judges lean STRATO on legal compliance (6.2 vs 5.8); its texts are generated with IT-Recht Kanzlei and updated when the law changes.
Sovereignty carries extra weight in your review: four judges lean STRATO (5.5 vs 4.8).
You compare published prices line by line: STRATO leads pricing transparency 7.2 to 7.0, with one judge leaning its way and five tying; plans list introductory and regular prices, VAT included, and "Einrichtung: 0 €".
Read this comparison as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.
The Practice Owner
Runs a physiotherapy practice with four therapists and a waiting list. Wants patients to book and cancel appointments online, a contact form that does not send health details around in plain email, a site an older patient can read and use, a cookie banner that holds up if the regulator asks, and the data kept in Europe.
IONOS MyWebsite
STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
This judge's pick
Criterion by criterion
Editor, templates & design control
IONOS MyWebsite
The AI generator builds a first draft from my line of work, the template gallery is sorted into industry groups including health and advice, and preview across desktop, tablet and smartphone plus flexible sections and colours are documented. We found no public information on multilingual pages, custom code or roles for collaborators.
STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
The web editor is documented as a WYSIWYG tool with a wide gallery — 29 industry templates and over 130 designs — plus responsive layouts, widgets, an image database and AI website, text and image generators, which is enough for a clean, readable practice site. The multilingual function is stated as not present, and we found no public information on separate mobile editing, custom code snippets or collaborator roles.
Hosting, domains & portability
IONOS MyWebsite
Hosting with a free domain, a free wildcard SSL certificate, stated storage per plan, unlimited bandwidth, a tariff-dependent CDN, geo-redundant storage across two independent data centres and a mailbox on my own domain are documented. We found no public information on backups, a restore function, an uptime commitment, named data-centre locations or an export of pages and content if I move on.
STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
Hosting comes with a permanently included domain, an SSL certificate, two mailboxes, 10 GB webspace and unlimited traffic, in German data centres, with at least 99% availability guaranteed in the terms and a backup solution named. For a practice that may want to move one day, we found no public information on exporting pages and content out — only importing sites from other builders in is described.
SEO, analytics & visibility
IONOS MyWebsite
Automatic SEO optimisation, an AI SEO assistant, rankingCoach Standard and visitor analytics (marketingRadar, SiteAnalytics Plus, WebAnalytics Plus depending on plan) are described. We found no public information on editing page titles and descriptions, sitemaps or redirects, which is the groundwork my practice's local visibility would rest on.
STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
Meta titles and descriptions are handled by an AI SEO assistant, a marketingRadar tool is listed on every plan, and the Pro plan is sold with an SEO focus; the captured pages give different figures for whether rankingCoach is included. We found no public information on sitemaps, redirects, analytics connections or local search settings, which matters for patients finding a practice nearby.
Forms, bookings & business features
IONOS MyWebsite
An integrated online booking tool in the Pro plan and an optional booking tool and shop on other plans are documented — the booking side is exactly what four therapists with a waiting list need, though we found no public information on patients cancelling or rescheduling online. We found no public information on contact or custom forms, spam protection or where form entries are stored, which matters because health details must not travel in plain email.
STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
Appointment booking appears only as a passing example of additional functions, and a shop upgrade with payment processing (SmartWebshop or WooCommerce) is described. As a practice owner I need far more here: we found no public information on contact forms, where form entries are stored or notified, or whether patients can cancel appointments online.
Imprint, privacy & cookie compliance
IONOS MyWebsite
The legal-protection add-on at 8 € a month provides a GDPR-conform imprint and privacy policy from the named partner IT-Recht Kanzlei München, checked daily and automatically updated, with liability takeover in a cease-and-desist case, and a data processing agreement is published. We found no public information on a cookie consent banner that blocks scripts until consent, or on GDPR handling of form entries, so the banner I would need before a regulator asks is not evidenced.
STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
Legal texts are a real strength: together with the IT-Recht Kanzlei, STRATO generates the imprint, privacy policy, terms and revocation texts and updates them automatically after legal changes, with an optional Abmahnschutz, a published data processing agreement and an accessibility statement. The part a regulator would ask me about first — a consent banner that blocks scripts until visitors agree — we found no public information on, nor on GDPR handling of form entries.
European sovereignty
IONOS MyWebsite
The contracting entity is IONOS SE of Montabaur, Germany, with a commercial register entry and a German data protection officer contact, and a data processing agreement is published; the security page speaks of EU legal compliance for its 8 million customers. Data residency is not stated — the two geo-redundant data centres are not located by name — and no subprocessor list is published, while the privacy policy describes hashed customer data going to Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, Reddit and Google for marketing purposes.
STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
STRATO GmbH is a Berlin company under German law and jurisdiction, the data centres are in Germany, and a data processing agreement is published, so my patients' data stays in Europe as far as the captured pages show. The chain is not fully documented: we found no public information on subprocessors and their locations, and the privacy notices describe hashed customer data being shared with Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, Reddit and Google marketing services, along with AI training on personal data.
Pricing transparency
IONOS MyWebsite
Plan prices are public with the introductory price, its six- or twelve-month term, the regular price afterwards, a 10 € setup fee, domain introductory and regular prices, a priced legal-protection add-on, VAT included and a 30-day money-back guarantee. The captured pages give different figures for the Plus plan's regular monthly price (11 € and 18 €), and minimum terms are only described as sometimes applying with no notice period published, so I cannot fully compute my commitment over three years.
STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
All three SmartWebsite plans are priced publicly with the introductory price, its duration and the regular price after it — SmartWebsite Plus at 1 €/Mon. für 12 Monate, danach 12 €/Mon., Einrichtung: 0 € — plus VAT included, a one-month notice period and a 2,50 € fee for postal invoices in the terms. What keeps me from computing the full bill: the optional Abmahnschutz, the bookable 24/7 hotline and the SmartWebshop tariffs are all offered without prices.
Sovereignty, side by side
Dimension
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Legal entity
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Hosting location
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Hosting options
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Open source
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Data processing agreement
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Transfer impact assessment
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Facts, side by side
Only facts both products carry under the same definition — anything else would not be a fair row.
Questions about IONOS MyWebsite and STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
Which is better, IONOS MyWebsite or STRATO Homepage-Baukasten?
As of 29 Oct 2026, the panel rates both 2.5/5. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 2 of the 6 judges pick IONOS MyWebsite and 3 pick STRATO Homepage-Baukasten, 1 calls it a tie. Which one fits depends on the criteria that matter to you; the table on this page shows both side by side, and each judge’s reading has its own page. Both were scored by the same AI bench under the same rubric, from public evidence only, as the methodology describes.
Is IONOS MyWebsite or STRATO Homepage-Baukasten European?
IONOS MyWebsite is European (EU-Made). STRATO Homepage-Baukasten is European (EU-Made). Provenance is read from each company’s own legal pages: who builds it and who owns it.