Dedicated server hostingDedicated infrastructure for your WordPress sites
Dedicated hosting gives your business-critical WordPress sites an entire virtual server to themselves, built and tuned by our engineers around the way your site actually runs.
What dedicated infrastructure gives you
Exclusive server resources
An entire virtual server reserved for your workloads, with CPU and RAM capacity dedicated to your sites.
Better configuration flexibility
Increase memory limits, adjust PHP values, disable homepage caching, or run cron every minute.
More room for demanding workloads
Push memory well past typical limits. On multi-site dedicated servers, you can tune resources per site.
Kinsta’s SOC 2-compliant platform
Meet enterprise security and procurement requirements on infrastructure built for organizations that need consistency over time.
Enhanced security through isolation
Greater workload isolation cuts out the container breakout risks that come with shared infrastructure.
Less maintenance-related downtime
Maintenance on shared infrastructure, like container reshuffling, can cause brief interruptions. Dedicated servers minimize that for high-traffic sites.
The same infrastructure, just yours
Every dedicated server is provisioned and configured by our engineers around your specific site needs, not assembled from a template.
Engineer-built setup
Our team scopes your traffic profile, dynamic workloads, CPU and RAM requirements before provisioning.
Kinsta’s proven infrastructure
The same high-performance virtual machines and hosting architecture that power the rest of Kinsta, dedicated to you.
WordPress-tuned from day one
Hundreds of server-level optimizations built specifically for demanding, resource-intensive WordPress sites are included.
The difference a dedicated server makes
| Performance comparison | Kinsta dedicated hosting | Typical shared hosting |
|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure assignment | The server is reserved for your workloads | Your site shares infrastructure with other customers |
| Resource allocation & limits | More headroom for demanding CPU and memory needs | Resource limits are designed for shared environments |
| Server & environment tuning | Greater flexibility to configure PHP, caching, cron, and memory | PHP, caching, and cron settings are constrained by platform-wide defaults |
add even higher security standards
Disaster Recovery
Disaster Recovery gives your Dedicated Server a secondary recovery location, so a serious incident at your primary data center doesn’t leave your business without a path forward.
Expert-led recovery decisions
Kinsta Engineering and SysOps assess the incident, decide whether a switchover is the right call, and manage the recovery process, so your team isn’t making that judgment call under pressure.
A defined recovery path
Your secondary recovery location gives Kinsta a path to restore your Dedicated Server so your business has a faster path back online after a serious data-center incident.
Support for business continuity requirements
Helps satisfy procurement and risk-management requirements for a documented secondary-location recovery capability.
Available as an add-on for Dedicated Server customers. Talk to sales for pricing and setup.
Switching to Kinsta has been one of the best decisions we’ve made. It provides the best technical solution, a fast, secure environment, and best-in-class support.
Sepas Seraj
CEO and Founder at Pixeled Eggs
- Talk to our sales team about your needs.
- Our engineers will provision a bespoke dedicated virtual server.
- We configure/migrate your site and give you full control through MyKinsta.
FAQs
What is dedicated WordPress hosting?
A dedicated server is a hosting environment where all the resources are exclusively allocated to a single client. At Kinsta, our highly-tuned hosting stack handles most sites efficiently. However, for very high-traffic sites that can’t effectively use page caching or need extremely high levels of CPU and RAM, dedicated servers offer the additional resources required to ensure optimal performance.
Do I need dedicated WordPress hosting?
Dedicated hosting can be a good fit if your site has consistently high or unpredictable traffic, demanding CPU or memory requirements, limited use of page caching, or stricter security and compliance needs. It’s also worth considering when you want more control over how server resources are configured.
What’s the difference between shared hosting and dedicated hosting?
Dedicated hosting is the opposite of shared hosting. With dedicated hosting, you have the whole server to yourself, making it perfect for sites that receive heavy traffic and require full control over their server environment. On the other hand, shared hosting has multiple websites on the same server, which can affect overall performance and limit customization.
Is Kinsta shared hosting?
No. Kinsta doesn’t use traditional shared hosting. Each WordPress site runs in its own isolated container with dedicated resources. On standard Kinsta hosting, those containers can share the same underlying server infrastructure. With Dedicated Hosting, the underlying server is reserved for your workloads alone.
What’s the difference between VPS hosting and dedicated hosting?
With Dedicated hosting, you have the whole server to yourself, making it perfect for sites that receive heavy traffic and require control over their server. VPS hosting involves partitioning a single physical server into multiple virtual servers, each with its own resources. While this can be a more cost effective solution, it doesn’t offer the same level of performance, reliability, or customization.
How does dedicated WordPress hosting improve performance?Accordion Title
Dedicated WordPress hosting can improve website performance by providing exclusive server resources, which can help to reduce load times and handle higher traffic volumes efficiently, while reducing downtime. They also provide enhanced security by adding another layer of workload isolation.
Is dedicated WordPress hosting more secure than other hosting types?
Dedicated servers offer enhanced security through workload isolation, exclusive resources, advanced configurations, and reduced shared vulnerabilities.
How scalable is dedicated WordPress hosting?
Dedicated WordPress hosting is highly scalable, allowing you to easily upgrade resources like CPU, RAM, and storage to handle increased traffic and growing site demands.
Can I host multiple WordPress sites on a dedicated server?Accordion Title
Yes. A Kinsta dedicated server can host a single high-resource site or multiple WordPress sites. Resources can be configured around the needs of the workloads you choose to run on it.
Can I migrate my existing WordPress site to a dedicated server?Accordion Title
Yes. Kinsta can help migrate or move your existing WordPress site to dedicated infrastructure as part of the setup process. Talk to sales if you’re interested in learning more about a dedicated hosting solution.
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