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 Small-Business Owner
Runs a joinery with six staff and builds the company website on a Sunday afternoon. Wants a template that looks like a craftsman and not like a start-up, to be found when someone nearby searches for a carpenter, an enquiry form that lands in the inbox, the imprint and cookie banner handled without a lawyer, and a price that is still clear in the second year.
IONOS MyWebsite
STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
This judge's pick
Criterion by criterion
Editor, templates & design control
IONOS MyWebsite
The template gallery is sorted by trade — services, gastro, creative and portfolio among them — and a preview shows a design on desktop, tablet and smartphone before I commit, which is exactly what a Sunday-afternoon builder needs. An AI generator drafts the whole site with texts and images from my branch, higher plans add flexible sections, colours, AI colour palettes and AI logo and image tools, and every plan is mobile-optimised. I found no public information on multilingual pages, custom code in the editor, user roles or separate mobile editing.
STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
The editor needs no programming, design templates cover trades like company websites, gastronomy, clubs and freelancers, AI drafts the site, text and images, and the layout adapts to mobile — my joinery page would be up on a Sunday. But the multilingual function is listed as not available, and we found no public information on custom code, separate mobile editing, brand fonts, a blog or roles for collaborators.
Hosting, domains & portability
IONOS MyWebsite
Hosting comes bundled with the product: a wish domain included, a free wildcard SSL certificate, stated storage from 100 GB redundant upwards, unlimited bandwidth, a CDN, PHP 8.2 with HTTP/2 and gzip, SSH and SFTP access, and data mirrored in two geographically independent datacentres — though the pages do not say where those centres are. I found no public information on automatic backups, a restore function, an uptime commitment, or a documented export of the site's pages and content if I ever move on.
STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
One domain with its SSL certificate is permanently included, there are mailboxes on the own domain, ten gigabytes of webspace, unlimited traffic, data centres in Germany and a commitment of at least 99 percent availability in the annual average in the terms. Backup products are named, but we found no public information on self-service restore or on exporting the finished site when I move on — only importing from other builders is described.
SEO, analytics & visibility
IONOS MyWebsite
There is built-in visitor tracking with marketingRadar and SiteAnalytics Plus on the higher plans, an AI SEO assistant and rankingCoach Standard, plus automatic SEO optimisation and a bundle of marketing tools. But for a carpenter who wants to be found when someone nearby searches for one, I found no public information on editing page titles and descriptions, clean URLs, sitemaps, redirects or local business listings.
STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
There is an AI assistant for the meta data, a marketingRadar feature and a top plan marketed with an SEO focus; the plan comparison lists rankingCoach on the top plan while another features page marks it as not present. Beyond that we found no public information on sitemaps, redirects, visitor statistics or local search help for the customer nearby who searches for a carpenter.
Forms, bookings & business features
IONOS MyWebsite
The higher plans document an integrated online booking tool and the option to add an online shop, plus social-media connections and a Presence Suite overview of site activity. But the enquiry form itself — the one thing my joinery lives on — is not described: I found no public information on contact forms, field types, spam protection, notifications, or where form entries are stored.
STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
Appointment booking is described as an additional function, the site can be upgraded to a full shop via SmartWebshop or WooCommerce, and password protection exists. But we found no public information on the contact or enquiry form itself — field types, spam protection, where entries are stored and how they land in my inbox.
Imprint, privacy & cookie compliance
IONOS MyWebsite
This is the standout for a small German business: DSGVO-conform imprint and privacy-policy texts from a named partner, IT-Recht Kanzlei München, embedded with one click, checked daily for legal validity and updated automatically, with the vendor taking over liability in a cease-and-desist case — the protection is listed at 8 € a month for a website and 12 € for a shop, including AGB and revocation texts. A data processing agreement is published and a data protection officer named. I found no public information on a cookie consent banner that blocks scripts, on GDPR handling of form entries, or on accessibility.
STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
Legal texts are the strong point: with IT-Recht Kanzlei you create the terms, revocation notice, privacy policy and imprint in a few clicks and they update automatically when the law changes, an optional Abmahnschutz add-on exists, a data processing agreement is published, GDPR conformity is claimed and the vendor posts an accessibility statement. We found no public information on a cookie consent banner that blocks scripts on my own site until visitors agree.
European sovereignty
IONOS MyWebsite
The imprint proves the contracting entity is IONOS SE in Montabaur, Germany, registered at the local court with a German data protection officer, and a data processing agreement is published — that is a European entity I can hold accountable. But I found no public information on where the websites, form entries and visitor data are hosted: the two geo-redundant datacentres are described without locations, the security page claims only 'EU-Rechtskonformität' for 8 million customers, and no subprocessors such as CDN, email or analytics providers are listed.
STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
STRATO GmbH in Berlin with United Internet as parent is the contracting party, the data centres are in Germany and a data processing agreement is published, so my visitors' data stays with a German firm. We found no public information on security certifications such as ISO 27001 or SOC 2 or on the subprocessors with their locations; US exposure in the terms arises only from optionally resold Microsoft products.
Pricing transparency
IONOS MyWebsite
Prices are public down to the detail: introductory price with its duration, the regular price after it, a 10 € setup fee, VAT included, domain renewals (a.de at 0,08 € a month for twelve months, then 1,30 €), a 30-day money-back guarantee, and the legal-protection add-on at a flat 8 € a month. Two things stop me computing my second-year cost with certainty: the captured pages give different figures for the Plus plan's regular price (18 € on the website-builder page, 11 € on the hosting pages), and the minimum term and notice period are only referenced generically ('abhängig von Mindestvertragslaufzeiten') rather than stated.
STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
I can work out the second year on the back of an envelope: the smallest plan is 0 €/Mon. for 1 Monat, danach 7 €/Mon. with Einrichtung: 0 €, the middle one 1 €/Mon. for 12 Monate, danach 12 €/Mon., the top plan 0 €/Mon. for 1 Monat, danach 18 €/Mon. with a 12-month term, all prices include VAT, the domain is permanently included, and the terms state one month's notice plus a possible 2,50 € per postal invoice. What stays open: the Abmahnschutz, the bookable 24/7 hotline and the separate shop tariffs are offered but not priced on these pages.
Sovereignty, side by side
Dimension
IONOS MyWebsite
STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
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.