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Kinsta is all about managed hosting for WordPress. The key word
Sound too good to be true? Well, it’s not. It’s just expensive.
That’s right, everyone,
For context,
Background on Kinsta Hosting
To understand Kinsta’s product,you would like to know four concepts.
First, WordPressis that the hottest content management system software on the web . People use it to run websites. It can run on any hosting setup with PHP, MySQL, and Linux. In other words, it can run on almost any web host.
Second, Web Hosting is space on a computer serverwhich will run web applications and serve data to browsers (aka, it’s where an internet site lives). Web hosting can are available various setups, counting on the configuration. Shared hosting is that the commonest where one server which will run PHP, MySQL, and Linux is “shared” among various hosting accounts. I explain more here.
Third, WordPress Hosting is space onan internet hosting account that's specifically configured in how to assist WordPress software run better. I explain more here. The definition of “run better” can vary wildly counting on the hosting company since technically WordPress can run on almost any web hosting account. I wrote about the differences between Web and WordPress hosting here.
Fourth, Cloud Hostingmay be a large network of knowledge centers configured in order that customers can lease computing power & storage for web applications on demand, anywhere within the network rather than using space on one web server. the most important cloud networks are travel by Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Digital Ocean, IBM, and Oracle. I explain more here.
With those four background conceptsin situ , I can explain Kinsta’s unique position within the hosting world.
Kinsta runs managed WordPress hosting on the Google Cloud Platform. They actively lease computing power & storage on Google’s Cloud, configure it to run WordPress quickly & efficiently, and manage & support each installation.
In other words,they provide a distinct segment but also potentially powerful platform. due to how they mix & match of these services, they don’t compete head to go with many providers. But they compete indirectly with *a lot*.
How Kinsta Hosting Works
To understand Kinsta’s product,
First, WordPress
Second, Web Hosting is space on a computer server
Third, WordPress Hosting is space on
Fourth, Cloud Hosting
With those four background concepts
Kinsta runs managed WordPress hosting on the Google Cloud Platform. They actively lease computing power & storage on Google’s Cloud, configure it to run WordPress quickly & efficiently, and manage & support each installation.
In other words,
How Kinsta Hosting Works
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In some ways, Kinsta works
But behind the scenes, their setup
First, you’ll technically lease your hosting from Google, so unless Google goes down…your site isn’t
Second, Kinsta has its cloud access explicitly configured for WordPress with things like server-side caching, security rules, staging environments, and more
Third, Kinsta blends several 3rd party services for DNS (connects your domain to the host), SSL (secures your connection), and CDN (content distribution network)
Since they only have one product with no upsells, the signup
1 Kinsta Signup
The entire setup operates from
2 Kinsta Account Dashboard
I’ve been considering Kinsta for a client’s site, and decided
Here’s my Kinsta Hosting review structured with pros, cons, ideal use cases, and alternatives
Pros of Using Kinsta Hosting
There are
Like I mention
Cloud Hosting Benefits
Since Kinsta uses the Google Cloud Platform, you get many of
Speed
A hosting account
In an age
So here’s the thing – Kinsta uses
Additionally, with server-side caching, your WordPress website
Here’s my first test with my Kinsta website –
9 Kinsta Speed Test
Again, if your site is loading slowly – it’s not Kinsta’s fault. It’s something
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Geography
With the Google Cloud Platform, Kinsta
Their CDN runs on
It’s rare and expensive
Kinsta Takes the “Managing” Part Seriously
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Kinsta wants to be your website’s overbearing helicopter parent. This approach to management
I’ll get into the server scaling more down below.
There
Resource-wise, the Starter plan comes with 1 website, 10GB of
The higher-tier plans
There’s no “secret boost” that’s only available with the more advanced plans, and no weird pricing tier system where
But it’s worth reiterating that Kinsta
As expected from a premium service, you get SSL certificates automatically. SSL makes sure that everything your users do on your site is encrypted, which
You get fully automatic daily backups by default, and
Performance-improving caching options
Global Google Cloud Data Centers (Are
Speaking of loading fast…
Old school hosts (i.e. 99% of hosts) maintain their own data centers, or lease out space in an existing data center. This
Just a reminder for us adults: that’s 20-year-old hardware. It’s almost
Not only that, most hosts only operate 2-3 data center locations, usually
Kinsta doesn’t maintain its own data centers, but instead uses Google’s state of the art, super performing cloud data centers
Kinsta has 7 US data centers and
Kinsta Has Its Own CDN
So a CDN, also
While many hosts will allow you to integrate your site with a third-party CDN, it’s usually Cloudflare, and it’s usually the free plan. That presents you with some considerable limits, unless you
Kinsta’s own CDN is fast, and included
Auto-scaling CPU and RAM Keeps Your Site
The beauty of a cloud platform is that resources can easily be scaled
Other hosts simply crash or send you an email saying “pay muuuuch more
Just
EASE OF USE
4.6
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It’s (Mostly) Easy
Signing up was fast
The general experience is smooth, pleasant, and a breath of fresh air… with one or two caveats. Let’s have
The Custom
… and no more. Kinsta has developed its very own WordPress platform, and has taken it upon itself
So again, there’s no cPanel.
There Was
The one issue came with domain and DNS settings. They weren’t preconfigured
Still,
See if Kinsta
PERFORMANCE
4.9
So, I ran my test website over
BEST. HOST. EVER.
There’s really no
How unstoppable is it? Average complete page loading times averaged 1.2 seconds, global loading times averaged 0.631s, and site uptime was a solid 100% over four months. That’s
I’m
So I
GTmetrix
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The fastest time was
Some people never spent their childhood on dial-up, and it shows. Anyway, here’s what the fastest test results look like:
Kinsta GTmetrix test results
Green across the board.
Sucuri
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Sucuri tests how long it takes a page to load
Now again, Sucuri doesn’t load pages in their entirety. It just measures how long it takes for the page to “get going,”
Kinsta uptime
No, seriously, this almost never, ever happens.
Check Out Kinsta Performance
SUPPORT
4.4
It’s really okay. Not amazing, but okay.
The pre-sales “chat box” ended up being a form that got sent as an email. I would’ve preferredto measure chat, but I did get a solution pretty quickly, with an agent offering to schedule a pre-sales call .
I appreciatethe trouble , but I wanted to talk using my trusty keyboard. He didn’t answer once I asked if that was possible, then our interaction ended with a whimper.
The pre-sales contact form
Live sales arethe simplest sales. this is often not live.
After signing up,things got far better . Kinsta has real 24/7 support through live chat and phone, and even through chat, I never ended up expecting quite a moment . There’s a weird bug where sometimes the replies don’t show up, but refreshing solves that (so just refresh after one minute).
Not only that, this live chat saves your previous interactions, which allows you to continueperforming on an ongoing issue without having to re-explain everything and obtain thrown around between agents. this is often a ticket system combined with live chat because it should be.
Kinsta live chat tech support
Nowthis is often how support should be – prompt and helpful.
Replies were always courteous, prompt,and very knowledgeable. I’m talking “here’s an answer to your problem” in 5 minutes’ time.
I wantedto check the support team’s limits, so I started asking web dev questions regarding WordPress. They remained attentive and guided me, step by step, through everything I wanted. once I asked for explanations about the CDN and therefore the security tools, the agent immediately detailed what the tools provide and explained all important things regarding them.
Still, with Kinsta focusing squarely on hosting, there’s a limit to whatthey're going to do. My pleas for help with optimization got answered by “activate your Kinsta CDN” and “here’s a guide.”
After my experience with GreenGeeks, where the support agent spent an hour overhauling my entire site,i used to be a touch disappointed. And yet, Kinsta’s servers outperformed GreenGeeks by an enormous margin. What does one need even the foremost dedicated support agent for, if almost everything is already optimized to figure also as possible?
PRICING
2.8
Kinstamay be a really expensive service. If you’re wont to regular shared hosting, which sells for around $1-10 a month, we’re talking about increasing the worth 3-30 times. However, that cash goes somewhere.
Value-for-money-wise,this is often a service far above the competition. Liquid Web is that the only other service that comes close, and it’s also very expensive, albeit slightly cheaper than Kinsta.
There’s no funny pricing tier –you'll pay monthly or yearly, and obtain alittle discount for yearly.
Payments can only be made with credit cards (and allthe standard suspects like Visa and Mastercard are here), but there’s no fraud detection system that creates your life miserable (*cough* I hate you Liquid Web *cough*). I would’ve liked to pay with PayPal, except for some reason, Kinsta seems very keen on sticking with credit cards.
Domains simply aren’t available through Kinsta, notfor free of charge and not for purchase. This cements Kinsta as a service that doesn’t look to form money off reselling extras to you. You buy the service, and it’s the simplest service, but the domain is left up to you.
Thereare not any hidden upsells, no hidden fees, and a 30-day money-back guarantee is out there with all plans. But damn, it’s so expensive.
My site’s uptime amounted to 100% over almost four months. What am i able to say a few perfect result except well gosh-darned done? That’s just impressive.
Kinsta's Uptime results
Kinsta's Uptime results
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No, seriously, this almost never, ever happens.
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SUPPORT
4.4
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It’s really okay. Not amazing, but okay.
The pre-sales “chat box” ended up being a form that got sent as an email. I would’ve preferred
I appreciate
The pre-sales contact form
Live sales are
After signing up,
Not only that, this live chat saves your previous interactions, which allows you to continue
Kinsta live chat tech support
Now
Replies were always courteous, prompt,
I wanted
Still, with Kinsta focusing squarely on hosting, there’s a limit to what
After my experience with GreenGeeks, where the support agent spent an hour overhauling my entire site,
PRICING
2.8
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Kinsta
Value-for-money-wise,
There’s no funny pricing tier –
Payments can only be made with credit cards (and all
Domains simply aren’t available through Kinsta, not
There
As mentioned, automatic daily WordPress website backups are
Kinsta Website Backup Manager
WordPress website backups are easily managed through the Kinsta account dashboard.
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As well as daily backups,
WORDPRESS WEBSITE STAGING SERVICE
Kinsta Staging Website Manager
Using the staging site included with all Kinsta hosting plans,you'll test out any changes before copying over to your live site.
Kinsta Staging Website Manager
Using the staging site included with all Kinsta hosting plans,
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All Kinsta hosting plans include access to a staging site where
Kinsta Developer Tools
Kinsta have some easily accessible tools that developers may find useful.
Developers should also appreciate
TECHNICAL DETAILS OF KINSTA MANAGED WORDPRESS HOSTING
This section of our Kinsta review should answer any questions
Website caching: Four
Content Delivery Network (CDN): 50 GB of KeyCDN usage per month on the entry-level Kinsta plan; more on
PHP: Switch between PHP 5.6, 7, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4 at the touch of a button.
HTTP/2.0: In use on the servers
SSL: Get a free SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt, or install your own.
SFTP: Secure FTP access to your web space for uploading and editing files.
Server file manager: No online file manager; just FTP access to the server space.
Database access: phpMyAdmin
Email service: No email service on any of the Kinsta plans; G Suite
WordPress website management: Ability to update plugins through the My Kinsta account dashboard, but no automatic plugin or WordPress core software updates.
Plugin restrictions: There’s
Security measures:
Post-hack
Data center locations: 21 server locations
Staging sites: All plans include access to a staging site with one-click deployment to the live site.
WordPress website migration: Available
Visitor analytics: View data on your website traffic through the My Kinsta dashboard.
Uptime checks: The status of your site is checked every five minutes
Support channels: A 24/7 live chat channel and ticketing system, but no telephone support.
You can find more information on the features page of the Kinsta website.
INSTALLING WORDPRESS
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Once you’ve signed up with Kinsta,
Create
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Creating
If you’re hosting multiple sites with Kinsta through one account, those sites
Kinsta Website Management Panel
Multiple WordPress websites
Once you’ve logged in to your Kinsta account dashboard,
Kinsta Web Hosting Performance
As mentioned earlier
To help you
Kinsta Loading Time Test Results
To help you
KINSTA SEVEN-DAY SPEED TEST RESULTS WITH
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At the time of writing, Twenty Seventeen was included
Kinsta Pingdom Page Speed Results
The average load time for the WordPress website using the Twenty Seventeen theme was 307 milliseconds
With the page loading in but one-third of a second, the results showed that the test site using the lightweight Twenty Seventeen theme loaded very quickly. Compared with the results from our test of the entry-level Bluehost and HostGator shared hosting plans, Kinsta were much faster (although also more expensive).
However,just in case you propose to use a more feature-rich WordPress theme, let’s see how Kinsta performs with a more heavyweight option.
KINSTA SEVEN-DAY SPEED TEST RESULTS WITH A MULTIPURPOSE THEME
However,
KINSTA SEVEN-DAY SPEED TEST RESULTS WITH A MULTIPURPOSE THEME
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Avada is
Avada Theme Demo Homepage
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The Avada Agency demo homepage layout used for testing the Kinsta load times.
To find out how capable the Kinsta premium managed WordPress hosting service was at handling multipurpose themes, we installed Avada on our WordPress test site and imported one among its prebuilt website demos. As before, the load times were recorded every half-hour for seven days, but this point , because the Avada theme was getting used , the file size of the page being tested was much larger.
Pingdom Kinsta Avada Theme Speed Test Results
The Avada Agency demo homepage loaded in 1.25 secondson the average , over a seven-day period.
The Avada Agency demo homepage loaded in 1.25 secondsbecause the file size was much larger than the Twenty Seventeen homepage, weighing in at a huge 5.14 MB, compared with the lightweight theme’s file size of 265 KB.
As your website homepagemight not include all of the features of the Avada Agency demo, like a multimedia slider, a portfolio gallery, animations, and enormous image files, we also tested the page loading times of a more basic blog post created using this theme.
Avada Theme Test Blog Post Layout
The Avada Agency blog post page that was also tested with Pingdom.
Despite having a smaller file sizeof two .11 MB, compared with the 5.14 MB of the Avada Agency demo homepage, the loading time strangely wasn’t any faster, coming in at 1.56 seconds, compared with the 1.25 seconds of the homepage.
Kinsta Site Speed Test Results
Even though the file size was smaller than that of the Avada homepage, the test blog post didn’t load any faster.
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Either way, Kinsta wereready to deliver respectable loading times, even using an Avada showcase demo full of resource-hungry features and widgets. For context, you'll see what proportion longer an equivalent theme took to load using the managed WordPress hosting service from Envato in our review.
KINSTA HOSTING SITE SPEED TESTS SUMMARY
Pingdom Kinsta Avada Theme Speed Test Results
The Avada Agency demo homepage loaded in 1.25 seconds
The Avada Agency demo homepage loaded in 1.25 seconds
As your website homepage
Avada Theme Test Blog Post Layout
The Avada Agency blog post page that was also tested with Pingdom.
Despite having a smaller file size
Kinsta Site Speed Test Results
Even though the file size was smaller than that of the Avada homepage, the test blog post didn’t load any faster.
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Either way, Kinsta were
KINSTA HOSTING SITE SPEED TESTS SUMMARY
Kinsta Page Speed Pingdom Test Results
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Pingdom page speed monitoring results from the three Kinsta test sites
Kinsta are definitely fast web hosts. As
If
For the tests, the Kinsta data center in Oregon was chosen,
Apart from the caching
FAQ
Does kinsta provide free migration
It's much safer to let our expert migration team lookout of everything for you. Moving your site to Kinsta usually won't incur any downtime and they will assist you inspect your migrated site before going live. Therefore, they recommend taking advantage of our their premium migrations.
Is Kinsta any good ?
Kinsta Uptime Test Results
Some ofthe simplest value entry-level shared hosts offer 99.9% levels of uptime, and, while this looks great on paper, over a year that works bent be over eight hours of downtime. ... Kinsta even have a 99.9% uptime guarantee, with money off your bill if the uptime drops below this level.
Some of
Where are cloud server located ?
Cloud space exists on individual servers found at data centres and server farms round the world. Data centre and collocation providers offer server space for cloud computing.
How Kinsta Is Different From Other ?
Kinsta has combined the fastest network and platform within the world (Google Cloud), and paired it with the simplest engineering team and therefore the most experienced WordPress developers within the industry. Our MyKinsta
dashboard was built from the bottom up specifically for WordPress, making site management a breeze. We truly believe we’ve made the very best quality WordPress hosting solution on the market.
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