Cancel an IONOS hosting contract from My account, Contracts & subscriptions: open the contract, choose Cancel contract, select the entire-contract option and confirm that your data is backed up. It takes about five minutes, and IONOS shows the effective date before final confirmation. Current web hosting plans include a 30-day money-back guarantee.
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Sign in to IONOS, open Menu, My account, then Contracts & subscriptions.
Open the service, select Cancel contract, then choose the tile for cancelling the entire contract.
Choose a reason and any requested date or cancellation type, then continue and review the displayed effective date.
Confirm that you backed up the data and select Make a note of cancellation now. Save the email confirmation.
Tick a step to keep your place - nothing is stored. Tap a step to tick it off - nothing is stored.
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Tell us when IONOS renews and download a calendar reminder that lands two days before, with this guide and the direct cancellation page inside. Nothing is stored - the file is yours.
IONOS advertises a 30-day money-back guarantee on the checked web hosting plans.
The flow can show product-specific cancellation types, but no automatic free hosting downgrade is documented.
No hosting-contract pause is documented on the checked pricing and cancellation pages.
IONOS requires confirmation that data is backed up and can be deleted. If no other contracts remain, access to the IONOS account ends when cancellation takes effect.
Yes. Use My account, Contracts & subscriptions, then Cancel contract.
The effective date depends on the contract and appears during the cancellation flow.
Yes. IONOS requires you to acknowledge that the data is backed up and can be deleted.
Yes. The official cancellation page also lists phone cancellation.
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