Kinsta add-ons
Supercharge your site with Kinsta’s selection of premium available add-ons. Join 120,000+ companies and take advantage of these add-ons right from the comfort of your easy-to-use MyKinsta dashboard.
Premium add-ons to supercharge your site
A selection of premium add-ons that can help you take your site to the next level. They can all be accessed right from the MyKinsta dashboard.
Kinsta provides Managed WordPress Hosting, Application Hosting, and Database Hosting to businesses that rely on high-performance infrastructure. Join the growing club of 120,000+ companies who made the switch to better, faster hosting.
Reverse proxy
Support to load WordPress from a subdirectory while a separate website (WordPress or otherwise) loads at the root domain.
*You must log in to your dashboard and contact support to enable Nginx Proxy for you.
Redis caching
Open source, in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker.
Premium staging environments
Each Premium Staging Environment has 12 CPUs, 8 GB of Memory, and the same number of PHP Threads you have for your live site (based on your plan).
Automatic external backups
Automatically back up your WordPress site once per week or per month to either Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage.
Automatic hourly and 6-hour backups
Additional restore point options for continuously changing sites like ecommerce or news.
Disk space
Transparent overage pricing allows you to plan and calculate exactly what you need in advance.
PHP performance
Get even more control over the performance of your WordPress websites with a new option to allocate PHP threads and memory.
Dedicated servers
Hosting a virtual event with thousands of attendees? Expecting thousands of sales during Black Friday with your ecommerce site? This add-on is perfect for your site.
WordPress sites
With the Kinsta WordPress site add-on, customers can manage more websites without upgrading to a higher-tier plan.
Kinsta Automatic Updates
Keep your plugins and themes up to date automatically, catch issues before they happen, and roll back changes with ease — all with a 31-day free trial.
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Explore Kinsta’s premium add-ons
See what you can accomplish when your site is powered by Kinsta hosting and our many premium add-ons.
Nginx reverse proxy
Nginx, pronounced “engine-ex,” is an open-source web server used as a reverse proxy, HTTP cache, and load balancer.
It’s built to offer low memory usage and high concurrency. Rather than creating new processes for each web request, Nginx uses an asynchronous, event-driven approach where requests are handled in a single thread.
Nginx supports the ability to load WordPress from a subdirectory while a separate website (WordPress or otherwise) loads at the root domain.
With Nginx, one primary process can control multiple worker processes.
$50/month/per site
Redis cache
Redis is an open-source, in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker.
At Kinsta, page caching is already built-in for all sites running on our platform. However, some more dynamic sites do not make the best use of page caching.
Ecommerce sites, membership sites, forums, discussion boards, blogs with extremely active comment sections, and other types of highly dynamic websites will benefit greatly by using Redis.
Redis cache allows for the reuse of cached objects rather than requiring the MySQL database to be queried a second time for the same object.
This reduces the load on a website’s MySQL database, while simultaneously decreasing the response time of the site and increasing the site’s ability to scale and handle additional traffic.
$100/month/site
Automatic external backups
Save the hours spent performing individual manual external backups. Instead, automatically back up your site once per week or per month to either Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage.
External backups can be configured for either a weekly or monthly frequency. You also have a choice between backing up your files only, database only, or both.
The Kinsta external backups add-on feature gives you the ability to build off-site backups into your disaster recovery strategy without having to configure complex plugins and connect to an external storage provider.
$2 per month for each site plus $1/GB for external bandwidth
Automatic hourly and 6-hour backups
Do you have an ecommerce site, membership site, a news publication with an army of editors, or another type of continuously changing site?
Our hourly and 6-hour backup options could be a perfect fit.
Rest assured that you can upgrade or downgrade this add-on at any time.
These are additional restore points. When you have the hourly backups add-on enabled, automatic daily backups are still taken and available to restore.
6-Hour Backups – $20/site/month
Hourly Backups – $100/site/month
Keep your data safe and secure with Kinsta’s trusted 6-hour backup
Looking for a reliable backup solution for your business? Kinsta’s 6-hour backup add-on has proven its worth to satisfied clients like Verify I-9. Here’s what they have to say:
Focus on your business and let our 6-hour backup add-on do the work
Faster recovery
Verify I-9 counts on our 6-hour backup for quick data recovery. Minimize downtime and get back to business in no time.
Peace of mind
Experience the same peace of mind that gives Verify I-9 the confidence they need to focus on their core business.
Ease of use & security
Verify I-9 loves the simplicity of our 6-hour backup add-on, along with its top-notch security and encryption.
Disk space
For large sites with many files or images, our monthly add-on will increase your plan’s disk space.
For additional flexibility, you can increase the storage space of your hosting plan with a few clicks inside the MyKinsta dashboard.
20 GB increments at $20/month per hosting plan
Premium staging environments
Every Kinsta account comes with a staging environment for testing and development purposes. However, oftentimes you simply need more.
Want to create templates for future sites? Customers will be able to install plugins, configure them, add content, and much more with Premium Staging Environments.
Each Premium Staging Environment has 12 CPUs, 8 GB of Memory, and the same number of PHP Threads you have for your live site (based on your plan).
You can also turn on Kinsta CDN for a Premium Staging Environment. Since the testing environment closely matches your live environment, you can also perform website speed tests on your test site.
$20/month per environment (prorated)
PHP performance
The PHP performance tool allows customers on most of Kinsta’s hosting plans to easily adjust the total amount of memory available to PHP behind their websites and manage the allocation of that memory among PHP threads.
$10 monthly/500MB
Dedicated servers
If your needs don’t fit within our standard plans, our engineers will work with you to create a custom dedicated WordPress hosting setup built to your unique needs and specifications.
Starting at $300/month
Add more WordPress sites
If you need just a little more room to move than your current plan allows, you can easily manage more websites without upgrading to a higher-tier plan with the Kinsta WordPress site add-on. The site add-on is more cost-effective for many customers than moving to the next higher hosting plan.
$30/month/per site
Kinsta Automatic Updates
Kinsta Automatic Updates runs available plugin and theme updates and checks the results using visual regression testing. If anything goes wrong, the system automatically restores a secure backup.
$3/environment/month (Enjoy a 31-day free trial)
FAQ
How do I set up the Nginx Reverse Proxy?
Please contact support with the inquiry and they will help you with the reverse proxy setup.
Is there a discount on the Reverse Proxy for multiple sites?
This depends on the situation and the number of Reverse Proxies needed. Please contact support with the inquiry.
Do I have to use your External Backups or can I use a plugin to offload backups?
External Backups are built into MyKinsta. All you have to do is add credentials and the system will handle the rest.
What are the best use cases for adding Redis to a site?
Ecommerce sites, membership sites, forums, discussion boards, blogs with extremely active comment sections, and other types of highly dynamic websites will benefit greatly by using Redis.
If I pay annually, does the disk space add-on get charged for the whole year also?
As with all addons (Unless you reach out and ASK for it to be billed annually), it will be billed monthly and the plan you are on will stay annual.
If a plugin update fails, can I also roll back the plugin from the MyKinsta Dashboard?
Yes and no. We will not provide a button or other facility within the plugins/themes page to do this. If users must revert a change because something unexpected happened or their site broke they can restore a backup, we create a backup when an update is performed.
What Is Prorating?
When we prorate a service like Premium Staging Environment, it means you will be charged based on how long the service was in use for that initial month. For example, if you purchase a Premium Staging Environment in the middle of the month, then you will only be charged half price for that month. After that, the regular pricing model takes effect.
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Plans
All plans include a hack fix guarantee
Prices exclude tax and are in USD.
30 day money-back guarantee
and the most flexible plans in the industry
- Easily upgrade or downgrade
- 2 months free if paid yearly
- No fixed term contracts
- Try free for 30 days