Feature Updates

We just rolled out the ability to add redirect rules from right within your MyKinsta dashboard! This has been a highly requested feature and you can now manage them without having to contact our support team. Redirect rules allow you to seamlessly direct traffic from one location to another. It is particularly useful for preventing 404 errors, ensuring proper SEO when you make changes, and routing visitors to the correct locations on your site.

You can easily add 301 and 302 redirects, as well as bulk import redirect rules from a CSV.

Check out our full tutorial on how to add redirect rules in MyKinsta.

We are constantly dedicated to bringing you the latest stable versions of PHP as soon as we have thoroughly tested it throughout our environment. Today we are excited to announce that PHP 7.1 is now available for all Kinsta users. You can easily change PHP versions from within the My Kinsta dashboard, under Tools, with a single click.

Remember that you can switch PHP engines back and forth, so if you encounter compatibility issues with PHP 7.1, you can easily resort back to PHP 7.0. Read more about changes with this new version in our blog post on what’s new in PHP 7.1.

Today we’ve rolled out a new feature that should help in the development of small and large websites alike. It is now possible to restore a live site’s backup to your staging site. This could make your life easier in a number of ways, such as:

1. A smoother and more flexible development experience
2. See how your site worked previously without having to touch your live site.
3. Retrieve information from a previous backup without modifying your live site

This feature is available for our Google Cloud customers and can be found in the backups section of each site. Read more about how to restore a backup to staging.

We’re stoked to announce a great feature today that will not only increase security for sites hosted with us, but will save our clients money! We’ve added full support for Let’s Encrypt which is a free, automated, and open Certificate Authority.

Let’s Encrypt is completely free and completely safe. It is backed by corporations and ventures such as Automattic, Mozilla, Cisco, Google Chrome, Facebook, Sucuri – just to name a few.

Grab a free certificate today and add it easily in your My Kinsta backend. If you’d like to know more, take a look at our post about the Let’s Encrypt Launch.

We’ve released a great new security and monitoring feature: the Activity Log. The Activity Log allows you to see all the actions that were taken on your account and who these actions were taken by. Log in to your My Kinsta dashboard to see the new Activity Log menu item.

This feature brings another round of security to our systems by allowing you to easily track all actions. You’ll also be able to see everything we do within your account.

We love working with agencies and other organizations managing websites for multiple clients and we want to make their experience the best possible. Today we’ve added a new companies feature to the My Kinsta dashboard which will allow our clients to manage their assets much more easily.

You can now create multiple companies and create sites attached to these companies. You can see which company you’re currently logged in as in the sidebar, under your name. Use the dropdown to switch companies and go to the settings section to add new ones.

This is the first step in a larger strategy that will eventually allow you to attach multiple users to each company with restricted privileges. For now you can add additional users to your company but each of them will be an admin so use with care! Added users must have a Kinsta account to be able to log in. We will make changes to this in the future to make the system more flexible, stay tuned!