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<\/figure>Andrea Zoellner<\/strong> Gala: I’m sure most of our readers know Kinsta. But anyway, can you briefly tell us about Kinsta and its mission?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n Andrea:<\/strong> At Kinsta, we\u2019re optimizers of the web, providing hosting for applications, databases, and WordPress sites. Our hosting is designed for ease of use, consistent and high performance, and with the developer experience at heart. Gala: Who uses Kinsta, and what’s the main reason customers refer to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n Andrea:<\/strong> Our customer base is primarily made up of agencies, business owners, developers, and people who identify as all-of-the-above. Whether they make money on their site or build websites and applications, our customers choose us because we offer the technology they need, are compatible with multiple frameworks, and offer helpful and fast support. Gala: If speaking of bloggers or webmasters, users from which niches refer to Kinsta most often?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n Andrea:<\/strong> For our WordPress hosting, we have a fair amount of web entrepreneurs who make a living by monetizing their content<\/a>, selling courses and consulting services, and who publish loads of high-ranking content. Gala: How does Kinsta differentiate itself from other managed WordPress hosting providers?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n Andrea:<\/strong> The first difference customers notice is how fast their website is when they migrate to Kinsta. Even without making any changes to their website\u2019s code, they see an immediate boost which can make a big difference when competing for organic search engine visibility and increase the conversion success rate. Adsterra helps WordPress and Blogger-based websites increase their profits. Whether you’re running a blog, streaming service, or multi-purpose web platform, you find a reliable source of passive income with us.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n Gala:<\/strong> Can you walk us through Kinsta’s technical features and benefits?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n Andrea:<\/strong> At Kinsta, your projects will run on Google Cloud Platform\u2019s top-tier infrastructure and be backed by Cloudflare\u2019s enterprise-grade security measures. Our infrastructure offers the highest-end CPUs and global availability. From these alone, our clients see 30% to 200% in performance improvements. With Edge Caching, which is offered free of charge, cached content is delivered from multiple data centers. Based on our tests, Edge Caching:<\/p>\n\n\n\n We also have our own local development tool: DevKinsta. DevKinsta is fully integrated with MyKinsta and Kinsta\u2019s hosting platform, which means you can develop WordPress locally and push updates directly to a staging environment on Kinsta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For customers hosting applications and databases, all dedicated databases come with internal connections for the best possible performance. And, they have no row count limits or query count limits. Scale your operation by manually launching multiple pods of the same application. Or, give your pods more power to complete resource-intensive tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Many web hosts lock you into one build per account. With Kinsta you can trigger unlimited, even concurrent builds. We also don\u2019t have per-seat pricing, so you can add unlimited users at no extra cost. Assign company administrators, company developers, and company billing to keep your projects running smoothly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gala:<\/strong> Maybe, you could name some extra WordPress tools that can be helpful to monetize traffic better?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n Andrea: Ahrefs<\/strong> is an amazing one to use when planning content for your website. It helps you track keyword volume, opportunity, and variations to help you create content that will really perform well. Gala:<\/strong> How does Kinsta ensure site security and prevent hacking attempts?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We take security extremely seriously and offer layers of protection to mitigate risks. You can detect and block DDoS attacks (or any malicious event) immediately thanks to our free Cloudflare integration with IP-based and firewall protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You will easily secure your root domains with an unlimited number of subdomains thanks to Kinsta\u2019s Cloudflare integration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n HTTP\/3 improves performance, security, and reliability. Get full HTTP\/3 support so you don\u2019t have to waste time tweaking your server settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Automatic daily backups with hourly, 6-hour, and external backup add-ons available. We monitor your sites 720 times every day and have a 99.9% uptime guarantee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These protocols help you stay confident that no one can access your connection while using it. Log in remotely to your servers to securely issue commands (WP-CLI, Git, Composer) and via SFTP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We have hardware firewalls, active and passive security, and other advanced features to prevent access to your data. If you have a compromised site, we\u2019ll fix it for free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gala:<\/strong> What about handling backups and disaster recovery?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n Andrea: <\/strong>Kinsta\u2019s infrastructure has multiple redundancies in place to keep your data safe and secure in case of a disaster. Even in the off chance of a natural disaster wiping out an entire data center, we\u2019ve still got you covered. Gala<\/strong>: Can you discuss Kinsta’s scalability options and how they work?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n Andrea:<\/strong> We offer a lot of different plans to give customers flexibility in choosing the right solution. If in doubt, our team is happy to review your needs and provide a custom quote for the exact mix you need. Gala:<\/strong> What is included in Kinsta’s customer support?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n Andrea: <\/strong>Our technical support is available 24\/7\/365. No ticket system or tiered support, only useful and in real-time replies in under 2 minutes. Support is available in English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For WordPress, our Support team is always happy to assist you with any of the following issues:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Adsterra publishers enjoy quick and efficient assistance from expert managers who are available 24\/7. You won’t have to wait long hours to get your queries resolved, which helps you increase your profits at a faster rate.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n Gala:<\/strong> With such a bunch of tools and services under the hood of the platform, what is your approach to pricing and billing for your services?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n Andrea:<\/strong> Our WordPress plans are competitively priced, starting at just $35 per month, and even less if you purchase an annual plan. Our range is designed to offer something for every type of site. We have WordPress plans for smaller sites, individual installs with high resource requirements, agency plans with bulk discounts and partner perks, Enterprise hosting plans, and custom options available too. For our Application Hosting and Database Hosting, we offer transparent usage-based pricing. Choose your pod size*, build machine, and get billed to the second for your usage resource and bandwidth. Use our Calculator to estimate your Application and Database Hosting costs: https:\/\/kinsta.com\/pricing-calculator\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n *An Application Pod is the dedicated resource for your application on a server.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Andrea Zoellner is the VP of Marketing at Kinsta, a fully-distributed PaaS hosting company, where she oversees the company\u2019s growth strategies and Marketing operations. Andrea lives in Montreal, Canada and in her spare time, enjoys travelling and creating YouTube content about minimalist packing.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Our mission is to power businesses and equip developers with the tools and hosting infrastructure they need for success \u2013 all while being simple to use and cost-effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
Often we\u2019re the second or third host they try because they\u2019re tired of wasting time troubleshooting hosting issues and just want a solution that works \u2013 every time. They also want to partner with a hosting provider that is obsessed with performance and doesn\u2019t try to sell them unnecessary resources.
We\u2019re also very popular with customers who want a global presence while managing their projects in their native language. We have data centers and Points of Presence (PoPs) around the world and our dashboard is available in 10 languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
These span a variety of niches but what they have in common is they have high traffic, large libraries of content, and an international audience. They also often require ecommerce features to sell digital products, merch, or to display affiliate products.
Website owners choose us because we have reliable uptime, incredible speeds which in turn helps them rank higher on search engines, and our CDN and Edge Caching features mean no matter where you are in the world, readers can access content quickly which provides a great experience for the end user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
The second difference that comes up in our surveys is our Support. We don\u2019t do tiered support, so everyone gets a quick, helpful reply. Because we are remote, we can hire more experienced staff, have larger language and timezone coverage, and you aren\u2019t given the runaround with tickets being escalated to the next agent ad infinitum<\/em>.
The third, and biggest difference between Kinsta and other WordPress hosts is that we do so much more than WordPress hosting. Developers have been asking us for more flexible hosting options, to be able to run their Headless site, or applications that are Ruby or Python, for example, and to bring all their projects under one roof. With the ability to host pretty much anything with a Dockerfile on Kinsta and with Static Site hosting launching this year, we\u2019re becoming a go-to hosting solution for people who want the convenience of hosting all their projects with the same host they already love and trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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WordPress users can choose from GCP\u2019s 35+ data center locations and with our HTTP\/3-enabled Content Delivery Network and access 275+ locations worldwide to deliver blazing-fast cached pages from your website visitors\u2019 closest location.<\/p>\n\n\n\nEdge Caching<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Pretty Links<\/strong> is also a great tool to manage affiliate links and provide a great experience to your end user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
These include:<\/p>\n\n\n\nEnterprise-Level Firewall DDoS Protection<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Simplified SSL Management With Free Wildcard SSL Support<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Site Backups & Uptime Checks<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Kinsta creates snapshots of every WordPress site every 24 hours, 6 hours, or hourly depending on the options you select. If your site is affected by an incident that isn\u2019t related to our infrastructure, you will always have WordPress site backups that you can restore in MyKinsta with a single click.
If automatic backups, as well as our redundant backups, aren\u2019t enough, you can always download a backup of your WordPress site. The archive file (.zip) generated in MyKinsta will contain your website\u2019s files as well as the SQL file containing the contents of your database. You can then store these somewhere safe to act as yet another backup. As an additional security measure, Kinsta provides an external backups feature for weekly or monthly backups as an add-on you can enable when in need. This means you don\u2019t have to install any third-party plugins or additional tools.
For database hosting clients, databases are automatically backed up daily, and each backup is stored for 7 days.You can manually create a database backup at any time, up to 5 manual backups, which are stored for 14 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
For WordPress Hosting, we offer a variety of plans as well as add-ons like additional staging environments, additional storage, and NGINX, and Redis add-ons. If you need to upgrade or downgrade and have questions, we have account managers available to consult with you.
With Application Hosting and Database Hosting, you only pay for what you use, so you can scale up or down and you\u2019re billed based on resource usage down to the second.
While we work on bringing auto-scaling to Kinsta\u2019s Application Hosting and Database Hosting, there is a way to scale manually, either by changing a pod\u2019s size (vertical scaling) or increasing the number of pods that simultaneously run your application (horizontal scaling).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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