IONOS is one of Germany's best-known hosting providers and bundles a lot under one roof: domains, email mailboxes, hosting, the MyWebsite builder and, if needed, an online shop. For many people that's the reason to stay — everything from one provider, German data centres, a familiar brand. On data protection through server location, BlenSite and IONOS are therefore close: both host in Germany, and your data stays in the EU.
The difference is elsewhere — in the question of who actually builds the website. IONOS gives you a builder with an AI assistant: you pick a template, have text suggested to you and assemble the page yourself. You create legal texts through separate generator tools and embed them. It works, but it costs time and attention for things that are easy to forget.
BlenSite reverses the order. You describe your business — what you offer, for whom, in what tone — and the AI generates a complete website from it: design, copy, images, SEO optimisation, blog and the legally required pages. A legal notice per the DDG, a privacy policy and cookie consent per the TDDDG are generated automatically from your details and embedded out of the box, not as an afterthought. An empty template becomes a finished draft that you refine by chat.
If you want to go deeper on what a website in Germany legally needs, our checklist for GDPR-compliant websites helps. To see how the price compares to an agency and a classic builder, we do the maths in What does a website cost?. And if you're looking for a specific sector, you'll find fitting examples under industries.