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Kinsta

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What is Kinsta?

Kinsta offers WordPress hosting with daily backups, Cloudflare integration, and 24/7 human-only support available in 10 languages. Boasting users among more than 120,000 businesses in over 128 countries, Kinsta helps to keep sites running smoothly wherever they're accessed and is SOC 2 audited and ISO 27001 certified to meet rigorous standards for security and data protection.

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Kinsta Offers some of the Best WordPress Hosting and Support Around!

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Simon HarperView profile
Business Owner at SRH Design (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Kinsta offers fantastic customer and technical support which is very important to both me and my clients. Kinsta powers my own website and two client websites (one eCommerce and one B2B SaaS). Kinsta offers a super hosting platform for WordPress with a fantastic interface that is blazing fast and feature-rich.

Pros

  • DNS Management
  • Website Tools (New Relic Monitoring, Kinsta APM, PHP Management and more)
  • The hosting infrastructure itself is superb (C2 compute-optimized VMs)
  • Cloudflare CDN integration

Cons

  • The ability to restore database only or files only (selection) from a backup
  • Only single staging environments are offered and it would be good to have multiple
  • More control over Cloudflare features within the Kinsta control panel

Most Important Features

  • Technical Support
  • DNS Management
  • Website Speed
  • Website Security

Return on Investment

  • Kinsta increased my website hosting speed by 25% compared to my previous host
  • Kinsta has saved me countless hours in customer support due to a superior hosting platform with built-in resource scaling and no downtime
  • Kinsta has helped me grow my revenue

Alternatives Considered

SiteGround

Other Software Used

Mailchimp, Google Workspace (formerly G Suite), WooCommerce, WordPress

Hands-down the best hosting I’ve found for my needs

Incentivized
David R MunsonView profile
Photographer at David R Munson Photography (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I’m an independent creative doing photography and writing, and I build and maintain the websites for my projects. I originally switched one of my sites to Kinsta after endless poor performance and abysmal customer service from other service providers. I was fed up with what I’d been using and my research led me to give Kinsta a try. What attracted me most initially were the good reviews of customer service, high performance, and the availability of a staging environment.

Pros

  • Fantastic customer service.
  • Extremely reliable and speedy site performance.
  • Very intuitive user interface.
  • Logical, easy to use staging environments.

Cons

  • Integrated email hosting would be more convenient than needing a different provider.

Most Important Features

  • Responsive, helpful customer service that never makes me feel stupid when I have what feels like a stupid question.
  • Staging environment is very easy to use.
  • Managing DNS, etc is very easy.
  • Migration was absolutely painless.
  • Intuitive dashboard.

Return on Investment

  • Kinsta has removed a great deal of stress and frustration I used to have with my old hosting, which allows me to better focus on more important things.

Alternatives Considered

GoDaddy and Hostinger

Other Software Used

Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Audition

Very Happy With Kinsta!

Mike Cliffe JonesView profile
Managing Director in Corporate at Digital Insight Ltd (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We host all seven of our websites with Kinsta. Some are very high traffic, with extremely large databases and some are quite small. Kinsta offers specialized WordPress hosting that is fast and reliable and the migration process to them was fast, well communicated, and perfectly executed. We’re a year two of our relationship and very happy.

Pros

  • Communication.
  • Pro actively highlighting potential issues BEFORE they become a problem.
  • The Dashboard is superb.

Cons

  • The “help” section is very detailed and useful, but it does assume some tech knowledge.

Most Important Features

  • Website Speed.
  • Website security.
  • Clear and consistent billing.
  • Great dashboard.

Return on Investment

  • Traffic has increased, due to loading speed of the website.
  • I spend much less time thinking about hosting or website issues.

Alternatives Considered

InMotion Hosting

Other Software Used

Drip Ecommerce CRM, Less Annoying CRM, Stripe

General SAWP’s Ultimate Kinsta Recommendation for Total Rapid Dominance of WordPress Hosting That You Never Have To Think About Because It’s Explosively AMAZING

Chevas Balloun
Owner Principal in Corporate at Artifact (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Kinsta provides WordPress hosting at scale. It solves security, speed, content delivery network integration (CDN), local development, staging environments, SFTP, and more. It is the fastest, most reliable, most robust WordPress host I have ever used.

Pros

  • WordPress hosting security
  • WordPress hosting speed
  • WordPress hosting management of multiple sites
  • Caching
  • SFTP
  • 24/hr AMAZING custom service with people that know what they are doing

Cons

  • Communication about security details. I had a client that was upset Kinsta didn't allow end-users certain access to open and close ports. The client's conclusion was that Kinsta had a "pervasive lack of security" which is laughable because Kinsta is perhaps the most secure WordPress host on the market. There is room for communication improvement to bridge this gap.
  • This is nit picky. Kinsta is amazing.

Most Important Features

  • Speed
  • Security
  • SFTP access
  • CDN implementation
  • Ease of use

Return on Investment

  • Install a website, walk away, never think about it again. Kinsta solves THAT many problems.
  • Uptime is amazing, never have to worry, clients are happy.

Kinsta Provides the Best Managed WordPress Hosting on the Market. Bar NONE!

Robb FahrionView profile
Partner and Co-Founder in Corporate at Flying V Group (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Kinsta is the Managed WordPress Hosting provider for our corporate website. We use Kinsta to ensure that our website stays up to date with the latest WordPress version, is backed up continuously, and utilizes features that ensure the best performance possible when users are browsing our website. Kinsta is able to provide everything necessary for our company to ensure that our website will always be live, we have available backups in case of an emergency, and much more. I would not use another Managed WordPress Hosting provider other than Kinsta.

Pros

  • Customer Service Responsiveness
  • Website Uptime
  • Extended Features
  • 24/7 Support and Chat
  • Honest and Transparent

Cons

  • They could improve their pricing for scale.

Most Important Features

  • 24/7/365 Customer Support
  • Daily Backups of Website
  • Great Security Protocols
  • Website Migrations
  • CDN

Return on Investment

  • Better Website Conversion Rate Due to Performance
  • Less Website Downtime
  • Faster Development Cycles for Clients

Alternatives Considered

GoDaddy

Other Software Used

Slack, Ahrefs, Clearscope, GoDaddy

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