Why developers love Kinsta
Optimized WordPress stack
We use nothing but the latest and greatest tech stack optimized for WordPress. From Ubuntu, PHP 8.0, Nginx, HTTP/2, and MariaDB, your sites will be able to handle high traffic spikes with ease.
Full control from click to code
Take control of your code with our one-click staging environments, cloning, and the ability to push staging to live. WP-CLI, SSH, and Git are supported out of the box.
We speak your language
We are developers ourselves, so we know how you think. It’s very important to us that our tools help speed up and automate your workflow.
How we optimize for WordPress
We aren’t your typical WordPress host. We have hundreds of server-level optimizations and rules in place to ensure that WordPress not only loads fast, but is also delivered in the most optimal way to your visitors. There’s a reason we’ve been awarded top tier status three years in a row by ReviewSignal.
PHP workers
PHP workers are used to execute the code on your WordPress site. Additional PHP workers per site allow for multiple requests to execute simultaneously. You can easily increase this number by upgrading to a higher plan.
Performance and uptime monitoring with New Relic
Every site at Kinsta includes 720 daily uptime checks with our New Relic performance monitoring tool. We also use this internally to keep tabs on all the WordPress sites on our network and react speedily to any issues before they cause problems. It helps us instantly pinpoint issues with third-party plugins, theme template files, database queries, external calls, and coding errors that may be causing performance problems. As a developer, you can easily add your own New Relic key in the MyKinsta dashboard.
Ecommerce functionality
Ecommerce sites are very demanding as they generate a lot of data, as well as un-cachable requests. Because of this we have optimizations in place to make sure you find the perfect balance between performance and functionality. A few examples of these include not caching shopping cart pages and automatically bypassing the cache when the “woocommerce_items_in_cart” cookie or “edd_items_in_cart” cookie are detected to ensure a smooth and in-sync checkout process.
Server-level caching
We utilize full page caching at the server-level to deliver your content almost instantaneously to your visitors. Combined with this is our Kinsta cache plugin which was developed in-house and is installed by default on all hosted sites. This allows you or your clients to easily clear your page cache, as well as automate the clearing based on certain activities, such as when you publish a new post. This gives you a much more granular control over your caching.
