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Doing the Unimaginable – Kinsta Is Boosting Performance for Everyone up to 200%

Moving to Google Cloud Platform's next-generation compute-optimized VMs (C2) has enabled us to achieve speeds unrivaled in the WordPress hosting in...

How to Choose the Right SMTP Port (Port 25, 587, 465, or 2525)

Trying to pick the right SMTP port? This guide tells you what an SMTP port is, which one to use, and the difference between 25, 587, 465, or 2525 p...

Seoul Data Center Is Now Available

Placing your website closest to your visitors ensures low latency and fast load times. Choose from 21 data centers available at Kinsta.

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How to Speed up Your WordPress Site (Ultimate 2019 Guide)

Hand-picked list of the best WordPress plugins

The Complete Guide to WordPress Widgets: How to Use, Add, and Implement Them to Customize Your Site

Use WordPress widgets to enhance your site: add a login on sidebar, a cta button, a gallery. Learn how to add, use, and code WordPress widgets from...

New Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) and MyKinsta Improvements

Authenticator-based two-factor authentication (2FA) is now available in the MyKinsta dashboard.

Everything You Need to Start a Podcast Using WordPress (And Grow Your Reach)

Looking for actionable tips to launch your new WordPress podcast? Check out this in-depth guide to WordPress podcasting (plugins, themes, hosts)!

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We never stop improving

MyKinsta is constantly in development. We’re always shipping new features based on requests made by our users.

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Feb

Seoul Data Center Is Now Available

Kinsta is powered by Google Cloud Platform’s multi-regional deployment mode that allows you to place your websites in the closest geographical location to your visitors based …
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Feb

New Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) and MyKinsta Improvements

As we roll into February, we have a few new features and updates to share. We are excited to announce that Authenticator-based 2FA is now available …
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Dec

PHP 7.4 (Official Release) Is Now Available 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. PHP 7.4.0 was released …
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Nov

PHP 7.4-RC4 is Now Available for Testing

The final version of PHP 7.4 is closely approaching, and nothing excites us more than new software! Why? Because with almost every new release of PHP …
12

Nov

New WP_DEBUG Tool, Search and Replace 2.0, and MyKinsta Improvements

The holidays are quickly approaching, but our teams are still busy at work. We have a lot of new features and updates coming out before the …
13

Oct

Rolling out Google Cloud’s Compute-Optimized (C2) VMs to Everyone

Kinsta is always trying to push the boundaries when it comes to performance, and today we’re taking it to a whole other level. We are excited …
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Oct

Disk Space Add-on Is Now Available in MyKinsta

We are excited to announce that one of our most highly requested features over the past year is now available; a disk space add-on. Some of …
01

Oct

Automatic MySQL Database Optimizations, Self-Healing PHP, GCP Firewall

If you’re already a Kinsta client, you’ve probably become accustomed to our monthly (sometimes weekly) feature updates. It’s very important for us to share what we’re …
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Sep

More Disk Space (SSD Storage) on All Plans

We’ve done it again! Back in 2018, we added more disk space to our Starter, Pro, and Business 1 plans. While many were happy about this, …
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Aug

Password Protection (htpasswd) Tool Now Available in MyKinsta

We are always looking for ways to speed up your WordPress site management workflows. A lot of you work with clients or develop sites in our …
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Aug

TLS 1.3, Public IPv4 Tool, Better Status Notifications, and MyKinsta Updates

Our favorite time of the month; another feature update roundup! 🤗 While it might be August, our developer and sysadmin teams have been working around the …
01

Jul

MyKinsta – Quick Add Gmail MX Records, UI and Security Updates

Even though it’s the middle of a scorching hot summer, 🔥 this doesn’t mean we pump the brakes. Our development team has been busy sifting through …
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Jun

More Free Migrations, PHP Workers, Improved Caching, Emails

It’s that time again, we’ve got another round of feature updates to share with you regarding exciting changes to Kinsta’s hosting plans and our MyKinsta dashboard! …
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May

Minor Updates to MyKinsta: Faster Cloning, Improved Sites List, and More

The development team at Kinsta is constantly pushing out new features, squashing bugs, and making improvements to our MyKinsta dashboard. In fact, a majority of the …
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Apr

20th Data Center in Osaka, Japan Is Now Available

Great news for WordPress users in Japan! Further increasing Kinsta’s reach in the Asia Pacific region, we are excited to announce that the data center in …

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How to Speed up Your WordPress Site (Ultimate 2019 Guide)

Hand-picked list of the best WordPress plugins

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We never stop improving

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