LMS Hosting For WordPress That’s Scalable, Fast, and Secure
Get a robust WordPress solution that’s optimized for your learning management system. While we host your LMS, you’ll be free to focus on creating new learning experiences, whether you’re an educational institution, a company that offers employee training courses, or an independent educator.
Powerful Tech Stack (and No Configuration)
Get hosted on an isolated container for high performance and reliability for your logged-in students. We use the same Google Cloud Platform infrastructure that powers demanding sites like Google Search, Gmail, and YouTube.
Plenty of Dedicated Resources
The capacity for handling multiple concurrent requests on your site is determined by the allocated server resources. This is key for LMS with lots of uncached server requests and logged-in users. We help you configure exactly what you’ll need.
The Best Tools for Your LMS
Utilize our APM tool, PHP version switching, staging, automatic database optimization, and optional Redis object cache.
Free Premium Migration
Our team of migration experts will work with you to schedule a migration that minimizes downtime. We’ll do the work.
120,000+ Growing Businesses Trust Our Platform
- Tutor LMS
- LearnDash
- Masteriyo
- MasterStudy LMS
- Lifter LMS
- LearnPress
- Sensei
- WP Courseware
- Good LMS
- Namaste! LMS
- And more…
Work with Your Favorite LMS Software
We’re familiar with the popular LMS plugins and they work perfectly on our platform.
| Features | With Kinsta | Monthly cost without Kinsta |
|---|---|---|
| Enterprise DDoS protection | included for free | $250+ Cloudflare |
| CDN | included for free | $8.99 Rocket CDN |
| Advanced Caching | included for free | $4.90 WP Rocket |
| Backups | included for free | $12.40 BlogVault |
| Migrations done for you | included for free | $5.83 UpdraftPlus Premium |
| Uptime monitoring | included for free | $15 Pingdom |
| SSL certificates | included for free | $4 SSL.com |
| Redirects Manager | included for free | $8.25 Yoast Premium |
| Total | Free | $300+ / month in additional costs |
Includes More “Extras” to Stay On Budget
A Kinsta site saves you time and money by including the “extras” that you’ll end up paying for with other hosts. Skip the expense and time spent on configuration and save it for launching or scaling your online courses!
Leading Photoshop Learning Platform Grows with Kinsta
PHLEARN has produced more than 600 Photoshop, Lightroom, and Photography courses with customers all over the world.
Kinsta helped PHPLEARN improve server response times by 60% while saving them 40% on hosting costs.
“Switching to Kinsta turned out to be the best decision we’ve ever made when it comes to our website infrastructure.”
– Seth Kravitz | CEO | phlearn.com
Scale Your LMS Performance, Not Your Costs
Enterprise-Class Security
Kinsta is SOC 2 compliant keeping you safe with Cloudflare DDoS and firewall rules without configuration. Plus, we remove any malware or hacks for free.
Proactive Site Monitoring
At no extra cost we check the uptime of your site every 3 minutes, that’s 480 times a day. If something goes wrong, we’re on it fast!
Caching That Works For LMSs
We know caching is important for e-learning sites. We’re ready with server-level caching and Edge Caching with simple controls.
Redis Object Cache
Our Redis add-on makes object caching a breeze. Less queries on your database provides faster performance for your learners.
24/7/365 Expert Support
When you need help with your LMS hosting, put our team of experts to work. We offer live chat all day, every day, including all global holidays.
Average response time is under 2 minutes
97% satisfaction rate
Available in English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese during certain hours
Troubleshoot, Improve, Repeat (For Free)
Only Kinsta includes a free built-in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tool. Easily find bottlenecks and make improvements without the need for an expensive third-party service.
How Is Your LMS Site Performing?
Find out if anything is slowing down your site from our team of experts for free.
Host Your E-Learning Site Near Your Members
We offer 37 data centers all over the world to get your LMS site running as fast as possible by being close to the majority of your site visitors.
Plus, our global CDN with 260+ points-of-presence keeps your site speedy for everyone.
- Orange
- Data Centers (37)
- Purple
- CDN Locations (260)
Pricing for LMS Hosting
We provide specialized Single Site plans for high-demand LMS sites that include plenty of dedicated resources.
Starter Plans WordPress Hosting Plans
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Single 35k
Start for Free$0$35USD for the first month$0$30USD for the first month- Monthly visits
- 35,000 visits
- Storage space
- 10GB Storage
- Free CDN
- 125GB CDN
- Backup Retention
- 14 days backup retention
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Single 65k
Sign up$50USD month$42USD month billed annually- Monthly visits
- 65,000 visits
- Storage space
- 10GB Storage
- Free CDN
- 250GB CDN
- Backup Retention
- 14 days backup retention
Business Plans WordPress Hosting Plans
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Single 125k
Sign up$90USD month$75USD month billed annually- Monthly visits
- 125,000 visits
- Storage space
- 10GB Storage
- Free CDN
- 500GB CDN
- Backup Retention
- 14 days backup retention
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Single 315k
Sign up$170USD month$142USD month billed annually- Monthly visits
- 315,000 visits
- Storage space
- 10GB Storage
- Free CDN
- 750GB CDN
- Backup Retention
- 14 days backup retention
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Single 500k
Sign up$290USD month$242USD month billed annually- Monthly visits
- 500,000 visits
- Storage space
- 15GB Storage
- Free CDN
- 1,000GB CDN
- Backup Retention
- 20 days backup retention
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Single 750k
Sign up$375USD month$313USD month billed annually- Monthly visits
- 750,000 visits
- Storage space
- 15GB Storage
- Free CDN
- 1,500GB CDN
- Backup Retention
- 20 days backup retention
Enterprise Plans WordPress Hosting Plans
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Enterprise plans
starting fromTalk to sales$625USD month$521USD month billed annually- WordPress installs
- 1 WordPress install
- Monthly visits
- 1,250,000+ visits
- Storage space
- 15+GB Storage
- Free CDN
- 2,500+GB CDN
- Free migration
- Free migration
- Backup Retention
- 30 days backup retention
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Can’t find a standard plan that fits your needs?
Reach out to the Sales team here at Kinsta to have a custom plan created to fit your needs. Talk to sales
Optional Add-Ons
Dedicated servers
For resource-intensive, high-traffic, and mission-critical sites that require the ultimate in uptime and performance.
PHP memory
Upgrade the PHP memory limit of any site from 256 MB to 512 MB.
External backups
Back up your site to AWS or Google Cloud Storage. Backups can be weekly or monthly. You can back up your files, WordPress database, or both.
Extra backups
Sites are backed up every 24 -hours automatically, but you can increase backup frequency of any site to every 6 -hours or even every hour.
Premium staging environments
Add up to five premium staging environments to any site. Premium staging environments are more powerful than standard staging environments, and ideal for resource-intensive development and testing.
Redis caching
Improve site performance and handle more traffic by reducing the load on your site’s MySQL database with Redis caching.
Reverse proxy
Need to load WordPress from a subdirectory? The reverse proxy add-on enables our Support team to help you configure WordPress to load from a subdirectory.
Disk space
Add more disk space to your hosting plan. This add-on can be added as many times as you need and is shared between all sites in your account.
WordPress sites
Increase the number of sites available in your plan.
Complete Control with MyKinsta
Easily control settings and access advanced tools all in one place with your MyKinsta Dashboard.
One-Click Staging
Test out new ideas or changes to courses before going live with zero-setup staging and simple tools for deploying changes to live on the file and database level.
PHP Version Switching
Make sure your LMS hosting works optimally by changing PHP versions with just a click. Try different versions on staging and live environments.
Automatic Backups
Focus on students with automatic backups stored daily. Create manual and downloadable backups each week. Optional 6-hour or hourly backups available.
IP Deny and Controls
Protect your valuable content for paying members and students only. In addition to your LMS tools, you can block IP addresses of malicious actors.
- Database search and replace
- Unlimited users
- Site Access / Server Logs
- Access controls
- User Activity Logs
- Kinsta API
- SSH, SFTP, and WP CLI
- One-click WordPress debugging tool
- Automatic database optimization running 24/7
- Redirects (with Nginx / RegEx)
- Force HTTPS
- Two-factor Authentication
- Site preview (no DNS work needed)
- Detailed site analytics
- Free SSL, Wildcard, or use your own
Guitar Learning Platform Handles Traffic Increases with Kinsta
Online Guitar Books has courses and resources for guitar players of all skill levels. They were having speed, security and other technical issues.
After moving to Kinsta they were ready to easily handle traffic increases from 9k visitors a month to 80k.
“Kinsta allows me to focus on growing my site, while knowing that security, speed, and performance are taken care of.”
– Genaaron Diamente | Owner | Online Guitar Books
Try It Risk-Free
Take your LMS further while keeping costs under control. Try Kinsta risk-free for 30 days with a free migration and money-back guarantee.
Get two months free when you pay annually.
FAQs
What features are needed for optimal LMS hosting?
We recommend having plenty of PHP threads (formerly called workers) and site-level caching with simple purging to help handle the demand of logged-in users. Our special Single Site plans above include 6 or more PHP threads. You may also want to add our optional Redis for object caching.
Can we host our LMS course videos on your servers?
Yes, if your website meets certain technical requirements. See the requirements on our Docs.
Do you provide custom plans?
Yes. Can’t find a standard plan that fits your needs? Reach out to the Sales team to have a custom plan created to fit your needs.
Can I try Kinsta’s Managed WordPress LMS Hosting for free?
We offer the first month free on our Single 35k and WP 2 plans. This allows you to try Kinsta at no cost and explore all our features without paying upfront.
You can also take advantage of our free migrations to move to Kinsta without any hassle, and if you’re not happy with the service, you can be refunded thanks to our 30-day money-back guarantee on all other plans.
