About Kinsta
Kinsta has been working with WordPress now for over 10 years. During those years, they have partnered with thousands of businesses to manage high-traffic blogs and provide the companies with the fastest speed and stability for their sites. They are suitable for everyone – from startup companies to bigger companies.
Features
When looking at a managed hosting provider, it’s vital to browse through their features first. This gives you an idea about their capabilities and expertise in the WordPress hosting providing field. Let’s take a look at Kinsta’s offered features.
State-of-the-art technology
Kinsta has a targeted focus on speed. That is why they make sure to only use the best technology to ensure your site loads within seconds. They utilize Nginx, MariaDB, PHP 7.4 to ensure high availability.
Hassle-free site migrations
Moving from one domain to another? Don’t worry. At Kinsta, they take care of all the processes concerning site migrations. They will assign a temporary domain for your site and make sure everything’s spotless before launching.
Secure network
No worries about security issues as Kinsta will handle everything. From both passive and active security protocols to daily backups, and many more. You also get DDos detection, hardware firewalls, SSL support, uptime monitoring, etc.
Uptime checks every 2 minutes
All Kinsta’s hosted websites are being checked every 2 minutes. That’s about 720 uptime checks per day for each of your sites. This is to make sure everything is up and running smoothly and quickly. They also address any issue they spot in the uptime checks.
Google Cloud Platform
Kinsta ensures fast and secure transport of all your data through the Google Cloud Platform. With Google Cloud, you can utilize their hyperscale data centers to reach users worldwide. They use a secure-by-design infrastructure to combat security threats.
Powerful, intuitive platform
Although Kinsta’s platform is designed to be highly intuitive, it certainly is developer-friendly and more powerful than it seems. You get an overview of your sites with their dashboard. Moreover, you get to track valuable analytics in just one place. This includes visitors states, response times, and bandwidth usage. With the platform, you can even create SSL certificates and many others using the tools that are conveniently located on the dashboard.
24/7 reliable tech support
Kinsta makes sure to maintain their 100% solve rate. Thus, they make sure no issue goes unnoticed. With their proactive support and 24/7 monitoring, they are able to resolve any issues that arise quickly. Moreover, their WordPress experts are quite adept in troubleshooting and maintaining your websites.
Available Plans
Kinsta’s plans are inclusive of free migrations and a hack fix guarantee. Their plans start at $30. In all plans, you can choose from one of the 24 regional data centers of Google Cloud. Moreover, you get access to Kinsta’s tech support to help you out with any issues you may encounter. If your site is coming from other hosts, they also handle your site migration.
Starter
At $30 per month, you are entitled to 1 WordPress install, 25,000 monthly visits, 10 GB of disk space, and free SSL and CDN. The Starter plan, as well as the other plans, all come with hack and malware removal, staging area, self-healing technology, multisite support, automatic daily backups, automatic DB optimization, manual backup points, and backup retention.
Pro
With the Pro plan, you get 2 WordPress installs, 50,000 monthly visits, 20 GB of SSD storage, and 100 GB free CDN. You also get 2 free migrations. On top of these, you also get site cloning, SSH access, and white-labeled cache plugin. The Pro plan is $60 per month.
Business
Their business plans all come with unlimited migrations from other host providers, site cloning, SSH access, and white-labeled cache plugin. This plan is suitable for eCommerce and membership sites. Kinsta currently offers 4 Business Plans (at $100, $200, $300, and $400 per month). As you go up the plan, you get more WordPress installs, monthly visits, SSD storage, and CDN.
Enterprise
There are 4 Enterprise plans currently offered at ($600, $900, $1,200, and $1,500 per month). All Business plan features are included in the Enterprise plans. You simply get even more installs, monthly visits, tons of SSD storage, and CDN.
What to use Kinsta for
So now you have a good idea about the specific services and features Kinsta offers. However, you may still not know exactly what the are for (or how they can help you). First and foremost, Kinsta is known for its turbocharged speed. You may be wondering how they make that possible. They utilize a cloud-based infrastructure that’s specifically tailored to boost your site speed. Moreover, they use Google’s private fiber network that reaches about 10,000 terabytes of data per second! Thus, you are ensured the highest performance.
Kinsta has also partnered with KeyCDN, a CDN provider in Switzerland that’s quite known in delivering topnotch CDN services. CDN or Content Delivery Network is capable of bringing down site load times up to 50%. It can also offload up to 70% bandwidth requests as well as preventing your site from getting traffic surges.
If you’re looking for developer-friendly tools and intuitive interface, Kinsta gives you what you need. From one-click tests of plugins and codes, caching, and updates management – you can easily handle everything in one place.
