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"Kinsta is one of my favourite partner for WordPress Managed Hosting"

5.0

Daniel K. - FounderNovember 3, 2021

STARTING PRICE

$35

per month
flat rate

Free Trial
Not Available

EASE OF USE

4.9/5

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What is Kinsta?

Kinsta provides a fast, secure, and feature-rich platform to power your WordPress sites. Host on Google Cloud Platform’s latest and fastest C2 and C3D virtual machines on their Premium Tier Network offering 37+ global locations. All websites are secured by an enterprise-level Cloudflare integration with DDoS protection, firewall rules, global CDN network and more. Free premium migrations and 24/7/365 Technical Support within minutes are available on all WordPress hosting plans.

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Find all tools and features at hand for seamless management of WordPress sites within the MyKinsta dashboard.
Find all tools and features at hand for seamless management of WordPress sites within the MyKinsta dashboard.
Tools include Restart PHP, WordPress debugging, Search and replace, New Relic monitoring, Password protection, Force HTTPS, Geolocation, and ionCube Loader, Site Preview, Early Hints and more.
The MyKinsta Analytics tool provides invaluable performance and resource usage data.
The MyKinsta User Management tool allows you to add unlimited colleagues or clients with granular access settings, and tailor to your existing development workflow.
Request site migrations right from the MyKinsta dashboard. Our team will pick up your request and keep you notified of the status. Moving your site to Kinsta usually won’t incur downtime, and we’ll help you inspect your migrated site prior to going live.

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Kinsta Reviews

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Pros

  • Kinsta is a great hosting company for WordPress. The site is fast, support is great, and having a staging site is wonderful.

  • Kinsta is, by far, the best managed hosting provider I've tried in this matter. Again, Kinsta's customer support team is the best asset this company has.

  • The quality of the hosting (speed and stability) is very good. As I don't have technical training in the area, the service and support help me a lot.

  • Best server host i has ever been used and with the professionel and nice support you are in good hands.

Cons

  • I changed to Kinsta because I was getting frequent attacks with my previous host. Those problems have disappeared with Kinsta.

  • The only problems I've had was when there was an upgrade. Those problems have been quickly solved with Kinsta support.

  • Holy hell I don't know if there are any Cons with Kinsta.

  • PHP Workers are my main cause of troubles, specifically my site's shortage of them.

Most Helpful Reviews for Kinsta

Daniel K. avatar
Daniel K.
Founder
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
4.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
November 3, 2021

"Kinsta is one of my favourite partner for WordPress Managed Hosting"

Overall: My company provides ecommerce as a Service. Before Kinsta, we had to manage the infrastructure all by ourselves. This is costly and very specific, so we choose to move to Kinsta and we never regret it. Kinsta took all our pain and helped us to grow from 20 sites to over 50 with ease.

Pros: Kinsta provides excellent support. This is my preferred feature. They also provide it in spanish, wich is very important for my not-so-fluent english staff. Beside support, they have a very solid infrastructre, and they know WordPress very well.

Cons: PHP Workers are my main cause of troubles, specifically my site's shortage of them. I would love to add more php workers on demand easily.

Alternatives Considered: SiteGround and Flywheel
Reasons for Choosing Kinsta: Spanish support was the feature that turn the scales.
Switched From: Amazon S3 and Google Cloud
Reasons for Switching to Kinsta: AWS and Google Cloud are big beasts that needs to be tamed. Kinsta does this for us, much better than we use to do it.

Vendor Response

By Kinsta on November 10, 2021
Wow, Daniel, thank you for this awesome review! We are stoked to read about your experience and we sincerely appreciate you taking the time to share it with others as well. Thank you for your trust in the platform, we hope you'll be pleased with our services for many more years to come.
Jose J G. avatar
Jose J G.
CTO
Market Research, 11-50 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
4.0
Likelihood to Recommend
9/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
November 14, 2022

"Great Managed Platform for WordPress"

Overall: I believe Kinsta team is doing a great work overall.

Pros: Kinsta gives a great management system for our WordPress sites, allowing us to focus on creating content and forgetting about backend issues. Great documentation on Kinsta help section.

Cons: I think that the only con for certain users is the price. Maybe the price is a little bit high compared to similar platforms. Aside from that, everything is great so far.

Alternatives Considered: Flywheel
Switched From: Cloudways
Reasons for Switching to Kinsta: Kinsta servers in Google Cloud was the reason we switched from.

Vendor Response

By Kinsta on January 17, 2023
Thank you for your review, Jose! We are happy to know we've made it easier for you and that you find Kinsta's Help Center useful. Thanks for spreading the word!
Lukas S.
CIO
Pharmaceuticals, 10,001+ employees
Used the software for: 6-12 months
Overall Rating
4.0
Ease of Use
4.0
Customer Service
2.0
Features
4.0
Likelihood to Recommend
5/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
August 26, 2022

"Good, but poor support"

Pros: Easy, sleek design of the GUI, useful staging feature

Cons: The user support isn't worth the name. Standard responses, permanent handovers, basic excuses, no in depth analysis.

Vendor Response

By Kinsta on January 17, 2023
Hi Lukas! We are sorry to hear you are not satisfied with the experience you've had with support. We have a scope of support that specifies the types of issues we are capable of helping you with. There are other issues where our Support team is happy to provide some expert advice but where our users retain responsibility. We are happy to know you are satisfied with the design and the staging feature!
Jerrie B.
Preacher
Religious Institutions, Self-employed
Used the software for: 2+ years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
November 20, 2021

"Excellent Service"

Overall: I changed to Kinsta because I was getting frequent attacks with my previous host. Those problems have disappeared with Kinsta. The only problems I've had was when there was an upgrade. Those problems have been quickly solved with Kinsta support.

Pros: I changed to Kinsta after having problems with a previous host. I've been very happy with my choice. The transfer was easy. I've had very few problems. When something arose, the support chat with Kinsta has been excellent. I prefer phone support. However, the 24/7 chat support with Kinsta has worked in every case.

Cons: I prefer talking on the phone instead of messaging.

Reasons for Switching to Kinsta: Frequent attacks on my websites while with Bluehost.

Vendor Response

By Kinsta on November 29, 2021
This is amazing to read, Jerrie! Thank you for sharing your experience. Sometimes people can be turned off by the lack of phone support, that is why it is crucial that they have access to experiences like yours, where they can read first-hand that our chat support feature actually works. Thank you for providing that insight for others who might be unsure about how to move forward with their hosting choices. And don't forget that we're always here to help whenever you might need it.
Oumarou S. avatar
Oumarou S.
CEO
Internet, 1-10 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
June 16, 2022

"Great reputation, reliable managed Wordpress hosting "

Overall: What a great experience. If you choose kinsta, your visitors will be proud of you

Pros: If you’re looking for the best managed Wordpress hosting service, Kinsta is what you want. In addition to being lightning fast, they offer a quality service and many free tools: powerful CDN, free ssl and a last generation php

Cons: If you have the money to pay for their services, kinsta is excellent, if not, this may be the only problem with them

Switched From: WP Engine

Vendor Response

By Kinsta on January 17, 2023
Hi Oumarou! Thank you for the amazing review and for considering us the best-managed WordPress hosting service! We truly appreciate you spreading the word with others.