SatelliteWP helps businesses keep their websites fast, secure, and well-maintained long after launch. Instead of delivering a website and walking away, their team focuses on ongoing support, performance, and reliability.
In this affiliate case study, Maxime Jobin, co-founder of SatelliteWP, shares insights into their affiliate partnership with Kinsta and explains why Kinsta is a trusted hosting solution for their clients.
The challenge: Maintaining high standards across client hosting environments
Founded in 2017 in Montréal, SatelliteWP takes a long-term, quality-first approach to website development and maintenance. Their team follows strict best practices from the start, proper development environments, internal validations, and proprietary processes that catch issues early.
It’s important to get things right from the start. That’s why we follow all best practices — setting up proper development environments, validating everything internally and with clients, and using several proprietary processes designed to catch issues early and proactively rather than simply reacting to problems as they appear.
However, the hosting environments chosen by clients often varied significantly in terms of performance and reliability.
When it comes to web hosting environments, we maintain sites directly with the hosting providers chosen by our clients. If they’re dissatisfied or the performance isn’t where it should be, we use an evaluation grid that allows us to suggest various types of hosting solutions based on the site’s content, traffic, required resources, and more.
To deliver consistently high-quality results, SatelliteWP required partners who met its standards, particularly in hosting.
SatelliteWP’s hosting partnership with Kinsta
Maxime first learned about Kinsta in 2017 and met a representative at a WordCamp in Montréal in 2019, where Kinsta was a sponsor. The WordCamp event presented the perfect opportunity to meet the Kinsta team in person and gain firsthand insights into the quality and dedication behind Kinsta’s services.
I met Christophe, who’s part of your sales and marketing team, and immediately felt aligned with the level of quality behind everything Kinsta was building.
From the very first encounter, it was clear that Kinsta’s commitment to quality and innovation aligned closely with Maxime’s standards.
[…] it quickly became clear that Kinsta’s tools and technical support were far superior to most of what existed in the industry, and that was a turning point for us in seriously considering Kinsta for hosting our clients’ websites.
From that moment on, a mutually beneficial partnership began to take shape. Kinsta has become a trusted partner of Maxime and SatelliteWP.
Why Kinsta fits SatelliteWP’s standards
SatelliteWP’s quality-first workflow requires a hosting platform that delivers consistency, speed, and expert support. Kinsta checked every box.
- Reliable infrastructure: Kinsta is built on Cloud servers and fully integrated with Cloudflare to ensure fast load times and secure websites at all times.
- 24/7 expert support: Available directly in MyKinsta via chat, Kinsta’s support team is available anytime, day or night, with a response time of under 2 minutes.
- Advanced caching: caching management is handled through Kinsta’s multi-layer system, including server-level caching, edge caching, and optional Redis caching, which are all designed to provide maximum site speed.
- Global CDN: HTTP/3-enabled CDN with one-click setup and 300+ locations worldwide ensures SateliteWP’s clients’ site pages are blazing-fast everywhere.
- Built-in tools: Powerful built-in tools like Kinsta APM, the API, or the MU plugin help agencies like SatelliteWP improve their workflows and ensure every client website runs smoothly at all times.
At SatelliteWP, quality is the top priority. Kinsta supports us with an up-to-date infrastructure and high-level technical support from technicians who aren’t level-one agents, but people who can consistently give accurate answers, and do so very quickly, thanks to their live chat support.
The platform’s ease of use also plays a role:
On top of that, built-in tools like caching management and the CDN help streamline non-intrusive deployments on our clients’ sites.
How Kinsta’s Affiliate Program supports SateliteWP’s growth
Maxime’s journey with affiliate marketing began in the 2000s, but SatelliteWP only recommends affiliate programs when it sees a good fit for a client’s project and when a hosting alternative is truly necessary.
When a hosting change is needed for a client’s website, everything starts with analyzing their needs: the number of daily visitors, whether the site is transactional, whether it requires special attention, and the client’s own technical skills for handling certain issues. Of course, the budget is also considered.
By the time an affiliate link is provided, trust is already established.
When Kinsta is an option for our clients, we recommend considering their services by outlining both the advantages and the limitations that come with choosing one hosting provider over another.
SatelliteWP emphasizes that recommendations are always manual and always based on quality, not commission.
We do have an affiliate link, and we do use it when it makes sense. Every time we suggest web hosting providers, the selection is always made manually.
This commitment is rooted in past experience:
We were receiving more commission than the sale… and we stopped years ago sending them clients as they were bought and the quality disappeared.
So why Kinsta?
We do it because you are good. Period.
Beyond quality, Kinsta’s affiliate program provides recurring revenue that helps SatelliteWP reinvest in its business.
The more we receive for an affiliate program, the more we can invest in our tools, developers and R&D. Your program helps us to be more competitive with this passive income as we can start or enhance internal projects to give more value to our clients without having them pay 100% of the costs.
The result: A hosting partner SatelliteWP trust with their reputation
For SatelliteWP, quality always comes first.
Choosing the right partners is essential, and we only recommend those who truly deserve it, whether they offer an affiliate model or not.
Kinsta has proven to be a reliable partner that supports the agency’s high standards for performance, uptime, and expert support.
It’s all about fast resolution and good infrastructure. Every detail counts. Adding these small details makes a big difference for us.
Kinsta is proud to support SatelliteWP, and if you’d like to learn more about Maxime’s background in programming, journey with Kinsta, and take on multilingual sites, head over to our very own Roger Williams’ Kinsta Talks session with him.
Kinsta helps us keep our clients happy. The last thing you want is a partner that lets you down and make you look like you provided a bad recommendation.
