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Fornex macht etwas, was die meisten Budget-Hosts nicht tun. Der Preis auf der Preisseite ist der Preis, den Sie weiterhin zahlen. Kein Aktionspreis, der sich im zweiten Jahr verdreifacht. Allein damit liegt es vor der Hälfte des Marktes. Das Problem liegt woanders: what Fornex advertises and what it contractually promises are different numbers, and the gap is large.
Diese Rezension stützt sich auf 900+ customer reviews across four platforms, the live order system, and the company’s own Terms of Service. Im Gegensatz zu Affiliate-lastigen Bewertungen, we read the contract and priced every billing cycle in the checkout. We quote the platform where Fornex scores 2.5, not just the one where it scores 4.9. And we checked the company registration rather than repeat a founding year reviewers copy from each other.
Gesamtbewertung: Fornex earns 3.9/5 von uns. Pricing is stable, hardware choice is unusually broad, and support gets praised repeatedly. Three things pull it down. EIN 99.99% uptime claim backed by a 99.5% contract. A refund policy that contradicts itself. And a review record that splits sharply by platform. Best suited for technical buyers in Germany or the Netherlands who read terms before paying.
Note on older reviews: Fornex changed a lot in 2026. It opened a Falkenberg, Sweden data center in January and tripled European VPS port speeds in February. It also quietly dropped Russia. Any review written before 2026 describes a different product.
| Name | Devisen |
| Bewertungen insgesamt | 381 |
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 4.8 |
| Telefon | +1 707 706 0739 |
| [email protected] | |
| Webseite | http://fornex.com |
| Die Anschrift | Fornex-Hosting-SL. Gebäude Altair – Büro 212 Urb. Salatillo 214 29680 Estepona (Gemälde), Spanien |
| Serverstandorte | |
Anzahl der Bewertungen
Durchschn. Bewertungsergebnis
Kundendienst
Funktionen und Dienste
What you get here is infrastructure, not website-building convenience. No marketing bundle, no upsell carousel at checkout. You pick a machine, pick a country, and pay.
Angebotene Hosting-Typen
- Shared Hosting – vier cPanel-Pläne (cPanel is the industry-standard hosting control panel), 25 zu 100 Websites
- VPS Hosting – full root access, on x86 and ARM processors
- Dedicated Servers – 47 Konfigurationen, from single Xeon boxes to NVIDIA H100 GPU machines
- S3 Object Storage and VPN – two smaller side products
Wichtige Funktionen, die Kunden hervorheben
- Schnelle Bereitstellung – VPS activation in 15 zu 20 Sekunden, mentioned often.
- Freie Migration – engineers move files, databases and email at no cost. Reviews confirm it.
- Choice of CPU clock speed – pick 2.1, 3.0 oder 3.8 GHz and pay accordingly. Few hosts expose this.
- NVMe-Speicher – a drive type roughly three times faster than standard SSD, auf jedem Plan.
- CloudLinux isolation on shared plans – walls off each account’s CPU and memory, so a neighbour can’t drain your resources.
Standorte von Rechenzentren
Six countries: Deutschland (Frankfurt), Niederlande (Rotterdam), Schweden (Falkenberg), Schweiz, Spanien (Barcelona) und den USA (Dallas). Dedicated servers run in Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden only.
Here’s a detail worth catching. Older reviews list Russia and Ukraine as Fornex locations, and Fornex still serves a “Rent VPS in Russia” page with Moscow marketing copy. Load it today and it returns “Plan not found.” Russia appears in no location picker, yet the shared hosting page still advertises an “RU data center” for Bitrix sites. That product looks gone.
Leistungserwartungen
We don’t run server tests. No credible independent uptime monitoring for Fornex could be verified either, so treat the company’s figures as claims.
One specification deserves a hard look. The VPS page advertises “Bandbreite 100 Mbit/s.” Yet a company news post dated 27 Februar 2026 says the baseline tripled to 300 Mbit / s, in Sweden, the Netherlands and Germany only. Spanien, Switzerland and USA customers still get 100 Mbps at identical prices, and neither the product page nor the checkout says so. Pick the wrong country and you pay the same money for a third of the speed.
Kundenerfahrung
This is one of the most split review records we’ve assessed. On HostAdvice, Fornex holds 4.9/5 von 523 Bewertungen. On Trustpilot it holds 2.5/5 von 16. Both are real.
The Trustpilot distribution is worth seeing in full: 10 Ein Stern, 2 Zwei-Sterne-Hotel, zero three-star, zero four-star, 4 Fünf Sterne. Nothing in the middle at all. Noch etwas: the HostAdvice listing carries an advertising disclosure and an active coupon. The Trustpilot profile is unclaimed and carries neither.
Was Kunden loben
Support speed comes up more than anything else. Reviewers describe ticket replies in minutes, from engineers who solve the problem rather than pasting a knowledge base link. Fornex claims a 3 Minute 45 zweiter Durchschnitt, and reviews broadly support that.
Migration is the second theme. Several reviewers moved from another host and describe the free transfer as painless. One HostAdvice reviewer in July 2026 had an expired server fully restored, Datenbanken enthalten, after an overdue payment.
Longer-term customers praise stability. Ein Dezember 2025 reviewer running two VPS boxes for over a year reported consistent uptime and no billing surprises. That’s the pattern: when nothing breaks, Fornex is well liked.
Häufige Beschwerden
Account blocking dominates the negative reviews. Reviewers in 2022, 2023 und 2025 describe accounts or sites suspended without a reason they found adequate. One long-standing customer had hosting blocked after their domain hit a Spamhaus blacklist, mit 24 hours to fix it. That review was marked helpful by 69 von 70 readers.
Bad luck, or policy? Read the contract and it’s policy. The Terms reserve the right to “unilaterally deny and/or terminate the servicing of the Subscriber without stating the reasons thereof.” These complaints describe the contract working as written.
Zweite: shared hosting resource limits used as upsell pressure. EIN 2024 reviewer had sites stop working, was told the processor was at 100%, and was offered a higher tier. The Terms back this up. Fornex may cap a shared account at 150 Domain Namen, then push the customer onto a VPS on five working days’ beachten.
Dritte: support language quality. A March 2025 reviewer described agents whose English was hard to follow, sending “verwirrend, cryptic messages,” while noting others were excellent. Speed is consistent. Depth depends on who picks up your ticket.
Community-Feedback (Reddit & Foren)
Here’s something odd. There’s almost no English-language community footprint. No LowEndTalk threads of substance, no Web Hosting Talk discussion, nothing on the hosting subreddits. Für ein Unternehmen, das Ansprüche geltend macht 16 Jahre im Geschäft, that’s strange, and it means far less independent scrutiny than a host this size usually attracts.
What does exist is Russian-language. The real Fornex mentions on Reddit sit in r/AmneziaVPN and r/rusAskReddit, where users run self-hosted VPN endpoints on Fornex machines. That fits the rest of the picture. Fornex bills in Russian roubles and Ukrainian hryvnia, supports Russian, and invoices through a Moscow sole proprietorship.
Two candid warnings from that side. A Romanian reviewer running Fornex VPN got roughly half the advertised 200 Mbit / s. Another said the company ignored an abuse report about a scam site on its network.
Support-Qualität
Kanäle sind Ticket, Live-Chat, email and a US phone line, 24/7 including weekends, auf Englisch, Deutsche, Französisch, Spanisch, Italian and Russian.
One claim deserves context. Fornex advertises “40 people in our tech support team.” The Spanish register lists Fornex Hosting S.L. beim 1 zu 9 employees on under EUR 2 million turnover. Staff are presumably hired through the Cyprus, US or Russian entities. The Spanish company you contract with is small.
When to Use Fornex
There are specific scenarios where this host is a strong choice:
Ideal für
Käufer, die Verlängerungsspiele hassen: Been burned by a host charging EUR 2 für das erste Jahr und EUR 12 für das zweite Jahr? Fornex solves that. Your rate doesn’t move. Prepay 12 months and you’ve locked a real price, kein Teaser.
Technical users who tune their machines: Picking clock speed, storage tier and architecture separately is rare at this price. Workload single-thread bound? Buy the 3.8 GHz line and skip cores you won’t use.
German and Dutch projects: The mature locations, with dedicated servers, das 300 Mbit/s network and the deepest hardware catalogue. A reasonable fit for anyone shopping our Webhosting-Leitfaden für Deutschland.
Sie werden es zu schätzen wissen, wenn
- Sie migrieren von einem anderen Host, because engineers do the transfer free
- You want a GPU or ARM server without an enterprise contract, because both sit in the standard catalogue
- You want Switzerland or Spain specifically, because few budget hosts offer either
When NOT to Use Fornex
Kein Gastgeber passt zu jedem. Fornex isn’t the right choice if:
Schauen Sie woanders hin, wenn
You need a meaningful uptime guarantee: Fornex markets a 99.99% Verfügbarkeit SLA (a Service Level Agreement is a contractual availability promise). Its Terms guarantee 99.5%, oder “not more than 43 hours per year.” The advertised figure allows about 53 minutes a year. The contract allows roughly 50 times that. Compensation is capped at 1/720 Ihres Monatshonorars pro Stunde, as account credit. On a EUR 5 planen, a full day of downtime earns you about 17 Cent.
Getting your money back matters: The window is 7 Tage, nicht das 30 days several review sites report. The refund page says funds are credited “nur” to your Fornex balance. Two bullets later it says payment-method refunds happen “at the discretion of the Company.” Processing takes “von 1 zu 45 Tage.”
You host anything that attracts abuse reports: Between the blocked-account complaints and Terms permitting termination without stated reasons, put critical workloads somewhere with a documented appeals process.
Warnsignale für Ihre Situation
- You want to pay monthly: every advertised price assumes a year upfront. Monthly costs 17.6% zu 25% Mehr.
- You may cancel early: clawback plus short-notice deduction can cost over 10% of a prepayment.
- You’re deploying in Spain, Switzerland or the USA: 100 Mbps while Germany gets 300, gleicher Preis.
- You want peer validation: there’s almost no independent community discussion to check against.
- You need to scale down later: VPS downgrades require a new paid order and a migration.
Falls einer dieser Punkte zutrifft, consider Hetzner or Contabo instead. Weitere Informationen finden Sie im Abschnitt „Alternativen“ weiter unten.
- Fornex-Bewertungen aus Russland
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 4.75 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 27 Bewertungen |
- Fornex-Bewertungen aus der Ukraine
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 4.43 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 19 Bewertungen |
- Fornex-Bewertungen aus Deutschland
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 2.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 4 Bewertungen |
- Fornex-Bewertungen aus Australien
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 2 Bewertungen |
- Fornex-Bewertungen aus Georgien
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 2 Bewertungen |
- Fornex-Bewertungen aus Usbekistan
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 2 Bewertungen |
- Fornex-Bewertungen aus der Schweiz
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 2 Bewertungen |
- Fornex-Bewertungen aus der Türkei
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 2 Bewertungen |
- Fornex-Bewertungen aus Armenien
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 3.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 2 Bewertungen |
- Fornex-Bewertungen aus Serbien
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 2 Bewertungen |
- Fornex-Bewertungen aus Bulgarien
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 3.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 2 Bewertungen |
- Fornex-Bewertungen aus Moldawien
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 1 Bewertungen |
- Fornex-Bewertungen aus Kasachstan
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 1 Bewertungen |
- Fornex-Bewertungen aus Großbritannien
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 4.80 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 1 Bewertungen |
- Fornex-Bewertungen aus Weißrussland
| Durchschnittliche Punktzahl | 5.00 |
| Anzahl der Bewertungen | 1 Bewertungen |
Fornex Plans and Pricing
All prices below are in euros and exclude VAT. Fornex converts to dollars at its own internal rate, so USD figures elsewhere drift.
⚠️ Preiswarnung: Fornex has no renewal shock. Your rate stays the same, cycle after cycle, which is rare and genuinely good. The trap is the opposite one. Every headline price on the site is a 12-month prepay rate. Pay monthly for shared hosting and you pay EUR 5.00, not the advertised EUR 4.00, ein 25% Prämie. And if you prepay a year then cancel early, Fornex recalculates your discount to zero and deducts the difference from your refund.
Shared Hosting
Discounts by term: 5% beim 3 Monate, 10% beim 6 Monate, 20% beim 12 Monate.
- WEB-25 - - 2 CPU-Kerne, 1GB RAM, 20GB NVMe, 25 Websites. EUR 5.00/mo monthly, EUR 4.00/mo beim 12 Monate.
- WEB-50 - - 4 Kerne, 2GB RAM, 35GB NVMe, 50 Websites. EUR 8.00/mo monthly, EUR 6.40/mo beim 12 Monate.
- WEB-75 - - 6 Kerne, 3GB RAM, 50GB NVMe, 75 Websites. EUR 11.00/mo monthly, EUR 8.80/mo beim 12 Monate.
- WEB-100 - - 8 Kerne, 4GB RAM, 65GB NVMe, 100 Websites. EUR 14.00/mo monthly, EUR 11.20/mo beim 12 Monate.
Every tier includes free SSL, tägliche Backups, SSH access and unlimited email accounts. 20GB suits a handful of business sites. It’s tight for anything media-heavy.
VPS-Hosting
The VPS discount ladder is shallower: 15% beim 12 Monate, nicht 20%. Prices below are the 2.1 GHz line, the cheapest of three clock speeds.
- Cloud NVMe 1 - - 1 Ader, 1GB RAM, 10GB. EUR 5.50/mo monthly, EUR 4.68/mo beim 12 Monate.
- Cloud NVMe 2 - - 1 Ader, 2GB RAM, 20GB. EUR 7.50/mo monthly, EUR 6.38/mo at 12 Monate.
- Cloud NVMe 4 - - 2 Kerne, 4GB RAM, 40GB. EUR 15.00/mo monthly, EUR 12.75/mo at 12 Monate.
- Cloud NVMe 8 - - 4 Kerne, 8GB RAM, 120GB. EUR 34.00/mo monthly, EUR 28.90/mo at 12 Monate.
Stepping to 3.0 GHz adds roughly 18%, und 3.8 GHz roughly 36%. A separate ARM line exists too. ARM chips are power-efficient processors that run most Linux software, though some commercial applications won’t. Root-Zugriff, DDoS protection to 10 Gbit / s, snapshots and OS choice are included.
Dedizierte Server
Entry is the PROMO: NEXT 4110. That’s an 8-core Intel Xeon Silver 4110, 32GB RAM and 2x480GB SSD. It costs EUR 99.00/mo monthly, oder EUR 84.15/mo beim 12 Monate. The range runs to EUR 1,689.00/mo for an H100 GPU machine. Alles 47 configurations carry the same flat 15% maximum discount.
Check the silicon first. Several cheaper tiers run Xeon Silver 4110 oder 4210 chips, 2017 und 2019 Designs. The AMD Ryzen and EPYC options are far newer for similar money.
Versteckte Kosten, die es zu beachten gilt
- Umsatzsteuer – all displayed prices exclude it.
- Monatliche Abrechnung - - 25% more than the advertised shared price, 17.6% more on VPS.
- VPS backups – free to 50GB, then EUR 0.03 pro 30 GB-days.
- Faster network - - 1 Gbit/s is a paid add-on, and only in Sweden, the Netherlands and Germany.
- Kostenlose Domain – locked to Fornex until your hosting order expires, and its cost is deducted if you refund early.
- Downgrading a VPS – the Terms require a new paid order plus a migration. No in-place downgrade.
- Late cancellation – without 30 Tage’ beachten, Fornex may deduct a full month at the current rate.
Preisurteil
Wettbewerbsfähig, and honest where it matters. BIS EUR 4.00 shared plan with 2 cores and CloudLinux isolation is decent value, and it stays EUR 4.00.
Now the arithmetic nobody else runs. Prepay 12 months of Cloud NVMe 8 beim 15% off and you hand over EUR 346.80. Cancel after two months without giving 30 Tage’ beachten, and two clauses fire. Your discount is recalculated to 0%, so those two months cost EUR 34.00 each rather than EUR 28.90. Then one further full month is deducted. Your refund is EUR 244.80, nicht der EUR 289.00 a simple pro-rata would return. Das ist EUR 44.20 gone, Über 13% of what you paid, to clauses buried in section 11.
So the pricing is stable but the exit isn’t. Prepay only if you’re confident.
- Unbegrenzte Bandbreite
- Panel cPanel
- Anzahl der Websites 25
- Unbegrenzte Bandbreite
- Panel cPanel
- Anzahl der Websites 50
- Unbegrenzte Bandbreite
- Panel cPanel
- Anzahl der Websites 75
- Unbegrenzte Bandbreite
- Panel cPanel
- Anzahl der Websites 100
- Zentralprozessor 1 x 3,00 GHz
- RAM 1 GB
- Zentralprozessor 1 x 3,00 GHz
- RAM 2 GB
Fornex Transparency Score
We assess how upfront Fornex is with important information:
- Firmeninformation: Gut. All four legal entities are named with addresses, and the Spanish and Cypriot registration numbers link to public registries. That’s more than most hosts publish. But the site says “16+ Jahre” while affiliate reviews say 1999. Fornex-Hosting-SL. was incorporated on 5 Kann 2010. Das 1999 date is the domain, not the company.
- Preistransparenz: Gut. Keine Erneuerungsfalle, term discounts stated clearly, and the checkout shows the real monthly figure. Marked down because every headline price is a 12-month rate labelled only “from.”
- Technische Dokumentation: Begrenzt. Specifications are detailed. But the VPS page still advertises 100 Mbps five months after the company announced 300 Mbit / s. It never says the upgrade covers three of six countries. A dead Russia product keeps live marketing pages.
- Bedingungen & Richtlinien: Arm. Das 99.99% gegen 99.5% gap is the clearest example. The refund page contradicts itself within a single screen. And the two costliest clauses, discount clawback and 30-day cancellation notice, sit only in section 11 of the Terms.
Gesamttransparenz: Gemischt. Fornex is unusually honest about price and unusually loose about everything you’d rely on when something goes wrong. The information is published. It just isn’t consistent between the page selling the service and the contract governing it.
Alternatives to Fornex
Each of these addresses a specific gap above:
For a Real Uptime Commitment: Hetzner
Hetzner publishes a defined SLA with tiered credits, not a marketing number its own terms contradict. Its German and Finnish facilities are larger, community scrutiny is enormous, and pricing is comparable. Sehen Sie sich unsere an Europäischer VPS-Hosting-Leitfaden.
For More Resources Per Euro: Contabo
Buying on raw specification? Contabo gives more RAM and disk at the same price, though support is slower. Unser Vergleich zwischen Contabo und Hetzner covers the trade-off.
For Straightforward Shared Hosting: Managed cPanel Hosts
Want cPanel plus a refund policy you can read once and understand? The mainstream managed hosts are the safer bet. Fornex’s refund page argues with itself. Vergleichen Sie Optionen in unserem Shared-Hosting-Leitfaden.
Für höhere Arbeitsbelastungen, unser Handbuch für dedizierte Server covers providers running newer silicon at Fornex’s entry price.
Fornex scores 3.9/5. It’s a competent, technically interesting European host with the best pricing structure in its bracket. The documentation around it can’t keep its own story straight.
Das Fazit
Buy Fornex for price stability and hardware flexibility. Don’t buy it for the 99.99% uptime figure, because the contract promises 99.5%. Don’t buy it expecting an easy refund, because the window is 7 days and the money may return as store credit.
Über 900+ reviews the picture is divided: 4.9/5 on the platform running its coupons, 2.5/5 on the one that isn’t. When a support ticket is all you need, customers are happy. When a billing dispute or suspended account is involved, they’re not. Solid for a technical buyer running non-critical workloads in Germany or the Netherlands. Wrong for a business that needs a guarantee it can enforce.
Für weitere Optionen, sehen Sie unsere Europäischer Cloud-Hosting-Vergleich, where Fornex’s competitors are assessed side by side.
Häufig gestellte Fragen
Is Fornex good for beginners?
Nicht wirklich. The shared plans use cPanel, which beginners learn quickly. But there’s no hand-holding, and the pricing and refund rules need careful reading. Building your first website? Pick a host with clearer terms.
Is Fornex worth the price?
Ja, if you prepay and stay. EUR 4.00/mo for 2 CPU cores and 20GB NVMe is good value, and it never rises. Pay monthly and it’s EUR 5.00, ein 25% premium on the advertised rate. Cancel a prepaid year early and you lose the discount retroactively.
Worüber beschweren sich Kunden am meisten??
Blocked accounts, mit großem Abstand. Reviewers from 2022 zu 2025 describe suspensions with no explanation they accepted. The Terms permit termination “without stating the reasons thereof,” so this is the contract working as written. Zweite: shared hosting CPU limits leading to upgrade pressure. Dritte: variable English from support agents.
Does Fornex really guarantee 99.99% Betriebszeit?
Nein. The website says 99.99%. Sektion 9 of the Terms guarantees “not less than 99.5% during the year,” defined as up to 43 hours of downtime. Das ist ungefähr 50 times more than the marketing figure allows. Compensation is account credit worth 1/720 of your monthly fee per excess hour.
How does Fornex compare to Hetzner?
Hetzner is bigger, cheaper per unit of compute, has a real published SLA, and a large community you can check claims against. Fornex offers more locations, schnellere Unterstützung, and options Hetzner doesn’t sell, like selectable clock speeds and cPanel shared hosting. For business-critical work, Hetzner. For flexibility on a small budget, Devisen.
Does Fornex offer refunds?
Innerhalb 7 Tage, Ja, mit Bedingungen. Several review sites report a 30-day guarantee. That’s wrong. The refund page states funds go “nur” to your Fornex balance, then says a payment-method refund is at the company’s discretion. Dedicated servers lose one full month from any refund.
