Ips.ch Review. Was ips.ch good web hosting in Switzerland?

📄 Editorial Review

(3*) 🔧 Services: Web HostingDomain Registration
⇔ Redirected domains: swizzweb.ch ipsfaktura.ch swissdomain.ch swizzweb.com
🔃 This company is a reseller of Penguin Webhosting
IPS.ch is a long-running Swiss web hosting provider operated by IPS GmbH in Hagendorn (canton Zug). They present themselves as a "Swiss cloud hosting" company active since 1998, focusing on classic Linux web hosting for small businesses and private users who want their sites hosted in Switzerland instead of on anonymous foreign infrastructure. The site is in German and prices are in Swiss francs, so the target audience is clearly the Swiss-German market.

The product line is deliberately simple and easy to understand: Linux Webhosting, a Cloud Server (effectively a managed VPS/dedicated-style server) and Reseller Webhosting. On the home page they summarize these as web hosting from CHF 7.95/month (40 GB storage, 400 GB traffic), reseller hosting from CHF 29.95/month, and a Cloud Server at CHF 279.95/month with cPanel & WHM, 2×500 GB disks and 800 GB transfer. That makes it clear who they are aiming at: small sites and agencies that want straightforward, Swiss-hosted services with a familiar control panel and support they can call.

Security and reliability are central to their positioning. IPS talks about "ironclad security," a 17-point server hardening process, continuous monitoring and updates, and a 99.9% uptime guarantee backed by roughly two decades of operation. Technically, the shared hosting platform uses SSD/RAID storage ("RAID SSD Harddisks"), offers multiple PHP versions (5.3, 5.6, 7.x), Softaculous for one-click installs, and daily backups with 30-day retention ("30 Tage Backup inklusive"). The overall impression is of a small, experienced Swiss provider running its own infrastructure and combining modern hosting features with a rather old-school website design.

💰 Price & Cost

Shared Linux Hosting (Webhosting)
IPS offers two main shared plans, Ultra Abo and Basic Abo, both with SSD/RAID storage and generous resource allocations.
Pricing is structured by billing period:
Ultra Abo 36 months: CHF 286.20
Basic Abo 36 months: CHF 430.20

They repeatedly advertise "10% Rabatt wenn Sie für 3 Jahre im voraus bezahlen" with coupon code 10off, so customers who prepay for 36 months get an extra discount. The simplified home-page figures (CHF 7.95/month for webhosting) are essentially the long-term effective price if you commit to multi-year billing.

Cloud Server
The Cloud Server is advertised at CHF 279.95 per month and includes:
2×500 GB hard disks / 800 GB data transfer / cPanel & WHM / 99.9% uptime guarantee and "extreme support"

Reseller Hosting
Reseller hosting is split into two plans with different storage/traffic and pricing tiers:
Reseller Plan one 25 GB storage, 250 GB transfer / 24 months: CHF 29.95/month
Reseller Plan two 50 GB storage, 500 GB transfer / 24 months: CHF 39.95/month

Both reseller plans come with a long feature list: effectively unlimited emails and aliases, mailing lists, shopping cart and forum scripts, guestbook, statistics, SSH, SSL support, spam filters, multiple scripting languages and more. Setup is free for all billing cycles ("Gratis Setup").
Money-back guarantee and payments

IPS advertises a 30-day money-back guarantee on the main site ("30-Tage Geld zurück Garantie"). On the reseller page they go further, promising a 100-day money-back guarantee for reseller hosting. In practice, that means:
Standard webhosting and cloud services: 30-day refund window.Reseller hosting: promise of 100 days.
Because the claims differ slightly between product lines, customers should always check the AGB/terms at order time to understand the exact conditions and exclusions.

Orders run through a separate billing system (IPS Faktura), where the available options (credit card, bank transfer, etc.) are listed. From a buyer’s perspective, the cost structure is clear and predictable, but the exact payment flexibility needs to be confirmed during signup.

🏢 Data Center

IPS brands itself clearly as a Swiss webhost, with slogans like "Schweizer Cloud Hosting von IPS GmbH seit 1998" and "Wir erbringen Webhosting Service in der Schweiz seit 1998". Customers can reasonably assume that webhosting is located in Swiss data centers.

The reseller page includes a "Datacenter & Servers" description that effectively outlines the infrastructure:

• Fully redundant backbone carriers
• Diesel backup generator
• 24×7 network monitoring
• Cisco routers
• Dual Xeon hyper-threaded processors
• SSD RAID hard drive systems
• 8 GB RAM (per server in the described configuration)

Even though it appears under reseller hosting, this is clearly the underlying platform IPS uses across its services. Combined with the Linux hosting notes about daily backups and "nahezu 100% Uptime," it paints a picture of a small but serious provider with redundancy at network and power levels and a focus on uptime and data protection.

They explicitly state a 99.9% uptime guarantee and reference "near 100% uptime" with more than 20 years of operation. Daily backups with 30-day retention add an extra safety layer for shared hosting customers. What is missing compared to large cloud providers is granular detail: there is no breakdown of specific data-center locations, Tier certifications, or detailed SLA penalty structures. For typical SME hosting use, the described setup is reassuring; for very large or compliance-critical workloads, some buyers may want more explicit documentation.

✍️ Customer Support

Support is clearly one of IPS’s main selling points. The site repeatedly highlights:

• Free Swiss telephone support ("Kostenloser Schweizer Telefon Support")
• 24/7 ticket support
• "Extremer Support" delivered by technicians described as highly certified and among the best in the industry

Linux hosting plans explicitly list the control panel, phone support and 24/7 ticket system as included features. The phone number is prominent across the site, which suggests they genuinely want customers to call rather than hiding behind email forms.
In practical terms, this means:

• Immediate assistance via phone during Swiss business hours (exact hours are not detailed, but the tone suggests good availability)
• Round-the-clock ticket handling for less urgent issues or off-hours incidents

🔨 Control Panel

IPS follows a control-panel architecture based on cPanel and WHM, which will be familiar to most users:

• The home page highlights that the Cloud Server comes with cPanel & WHM.
• Reseller plans mention that resellers get "your own control panel with over 100 features," and cPanel/WHM appears explicitly in the features.

The Linux hosting plans list features that line up exactly with a cPanel environment:

• Multiple PHP versions (5.3, 5.6, 7.x)
• Softaculous for one-click installation of over 100 applications, including WordPress
• phpMyAdmin for database management
• Unlimited FTP accounts
• .htaccess support, MIME types, IP blocking and unblocking
• Email features: autoresponders, forwarding, webmail, SMTP/IMAP, spam and antivirus filtering

Alongside this, the IPS Faktura system acts as a separate billing and ticket portal, while cPanel/WHM handles the day-to-day site and account management. For anyone coming from another cPanel host, the environment should feel instantly familiar and easy to adopt.

🎯 Conclusion

IPS.ch is a small, long-established Swiss hosting company with a clear focus: Linux shared hosting, cloud servers and reseller accounts for customers who want their sites and data to remain in Switzerland, with familiar tools and approachable support.
Strengths include:

• Hosting experience dating back to 1998 and a consistent focus on Swiss-based services.
• A simple, understandable product lineup: two shared hosting plans, one Cloud Server tier and two reseller plans.
• Technically solid platform with SSD/RAID storage, daily backups and 30-day retention, multiple PHP versions, Softaculous and full cPanel/WHM integration.
• Serious approach to uptime and security, with a 99.9% uptime guarantee, hardened servers and continuous monitoring.
• Visible, local support via free Swiss phone support and 24/7 ticketing.

Points to consider:

• The mix of a 30-day money-back guarantee for general hosting and a 100-day guarantee for reseller accounts could be confusing and should be checked carefully in the current AGB.
• Data-center details are somewhat generic; larger organizations with strict compliance or SLA requirements may want more precise technical and contractual documentation.
• The site is German-only and billing is in CHF, making IPS primarily attractive to Swiss/German-speaking customers rather than a global audience.

For Swiss small businesses, agencies and resellers who want a stable, cPanel-based hosting environment on Swiss infrastructure with telephone support and clear pricing, IPS.ch is a very realistic option. For bigger, internationally oriented projects with complex compliance, multi-region needs or English-first expectations, a larger cloud provider might be more suitable, but IPS can still serve well as a focused, local Swiss hosting partner.

📢 Special pages

• About us: https://ips.ch/linux-hosting/
• Terms of Service: https://ips.ch/terms-of-use/