WordPress Membership Website Hosting
Performance-focused hosting built for growing communities and resource-hungry WordPress membership sites. Powered by the speed, ease, and reliability of Kinsta.
Blazing Fast Speeds
Our servers can easily handle large numbers of logged-in members and heavy user activity. Many of our customers report huge decreases in page load times after switching to Kinsta. We use Google Cloud’s compute-optimized C2 machines across all our hosting plans.
- Compute-optimized C2 machines
- HTTP/2 and IPv6-enabled CDN
- Server-level caching
- Fine-tuned for WordPress
Next Generation Architecture
We only use state-of-the-art technologies like Nginx, PHP 8.0, LXD software containers, and MariaDB. Add to that complete resource isolation, a scalable infrastructure, and expertly managed server architecture, and you’ve got yourself membership site hosting with speed, scale, and availability you can count on.
- Nginx and PHP 8.1
- Resource isolation
- Scalable hosting
- PHP workers
Google Cloud Partner
Choose from 35 Google Cloud data centers located around the world. We support your move to their premium tier network, optimizing WordPress for high performance. Get all the user-friendly tools and guidance you need to take advantage of the same secure enterprise-level infrastructure that powers Google Search and YouTube.
- 35 global data centers
- GCP premium tier network
- User-friendly tools
- WordPress-specific optimizations
Expert WordPress Support
Ask our customers why they choose Kinsta, and you’ll hear about our stellar support. Our support team is here around the clock to answer all your membership site hosting-related questions. Chances are, you’ll speak to someone who’s contributed to WordPress core, coded a plugin, or even run a membership site.
- 365/24/7 live chat
- 720 daily uptime checks
- Get help fast
Convenient Tools for Membership Sites
Get WordPress-optimized tools and features like database optimization, self-healing PHP, and analytics, along with PHP version switching, Kinsta APM for debugging performance issues, staging environments, and free migrations. Need more? Redis and extra disk space are available as optional add-ons.
- Redis
- Kinsta APM
- Weekly database optimization
- Self-healing PHP
Running a WordPress agency that specialises in membership websites means that we have tried a number of different hosting solutions for our clients. I can say 100% hands down that the hosting provided by Kinsta for membership sites is second to none. Our sites run faster and with minimal to no downtime, bugs or errors compared with other hosting providers. If there is a problem then the Kinsta team provide instant support and get it fixed ASAP. I would highly recommend Kinsta to anyone with a membership site.
Hosting for Every Type of Membership
Whether you’re running an online community, managing a forum, or teaching online courses, if you can build it, our membership site hosting will support it.
We support WordPress multisite and all the popular WordPress membership plugins, including MemberPress, Ultimate Membership Pro, LearnDash, Restrict Content Pro, and more.
- Multisite, BuddyPress, and bbPress
- Online communities
- Online courses
- Forums
- Professional services
- Group coaching
- Premium content
- Content libraries
- Product bundles
We’re a hybrid agency offering membership websites as a platform service. Kinsta is an integral part of our stack and offering to clients. Their servers and back-end tools allow us to quickly spin up new membership site builds with the performance and resources needed to scale. Some of our clients do millions in revenue, so the decision to host with Kinsta was not a light one.
As a technologist and seasoned WP hosting customer, I can tell you that there are very few companies that compare to Kinsta for membership site hosting. Save yourself A LOT of time and energy and just host with Kinsta. I’ve been nothing short of pleased for the last 3+ years as a customer. Everything from tools to support is top notch, which is exactly what you need when managing high performance membership sites.
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Why Host Your WordPress Membership Site at Kinsta?
Membership sites are beasts when it comes to performance. Large numbers of concurrent visitors, uncacheable content, complex database queries, and data like user profiles, forum threads, images, and videos, can affect your site’s performance, in turn impacting your members’ user experience.
That’s why it’s essential you choose a membership site hosting provider that understands your site’s resource-intensive needs.
At Kinsta, we know membership sites are different from other kinds of WordPress sites because we wrote the book article about it: The Dos and Don’ts for Hosting WordPress Membership Sites. See how Kinsta can help:
Performance-Focused Web Hosting
We obsess over speed, reliability, and availability. That’s why we were the first managed WordPress host to partner exclusively with Google Cloud Platform. We use GCP’s premium tier global network and compute-optimized C2 servers.
Choose from 35 different data centers around the globe and serve content closer to your members for decreased latency and TTFB. All of our plans include resource isolation, a scalable infrastructure, and WordPress-specific optimizations for high-performance membership site hosting.
PHP 8 Performance Boost
For many WordPress membership sites, switching to the latest version of PHP provides an instant performance boost. Our latest PHP performance benchmarks show that PHP 8.0 offers a significant performance over PHP 7.
Object Caching
Membership sites are dynamic and always changing. Object cache, on the other hand, can provide considerable performance improvements, reducing the load on your database and speeding up PHP execution times. We offer Redis as an add-on so you can take full advantage of persistent object caching, helping to speed up the user experience for your members.
Analytics
We’ve seen first-hand that WordPress membership sites typically generate a lot of 404 errors. With our MyKinsta analytics tool, you can determine how many 404 errors your site is generating and then create a simple 404 template that avoids querying the database any more than is necessary. You can see MyKinsta analytics via a live Demo.
PHP Workers
One of the biggest challenges with WordPress membership sites is large numbers of uncached requests. PHP workers determine how many simultaneous database requests your site can handle at a given time. If you continuously max out your PHP workers, the queue will start to push out older requests, resulting in 500 errors. A set number of PHP workers is included with every Kinsta hosting plan. We recommend starting with one of our Business plans for a minimum of four PHP workers. If you’re not sure how many PHP workers your WordPress membership site needs, read our guide: PHP worker recommendations for membership sites. Or, chat to our sales team to find out more.
Database Maintenance and Optimization
Regular database maintenance is essential for the health of any WordPress membership site. Without it, you might find that over time, your site slows to a crawl. To help combat dips in database performance, our platform will automatically fine tune your MySQL database settings based on the needs of your membership website. Our hosting plans also include weekly automatic database optimization. If our automated system detects something wrong that it can’t fix, our sysadmin team is notified.
Let Our Migration Team Do All the Heavy Lifting
Moving a WordPress membership site requires experts who can solve unexpected issues along the way. Our migration experts will take care of the process, saving you time and money. We approach your site’s move as if it were our own, leveraging years of hosting and WordPress experience to get your site up and running just like it was before your move.
- All our plans include free migrations
- Fill out our site migration request form to get started
- We keep you updated once your migration has started
- Schedule your move for a time that suits you
- Let our team handle all the complexities
Switching to Kinsta hosting was one of the best moves I made for my business. Their customer support is incredible! As a beginning user, I had no idea what any of the technical jargon meant. In every interaction, the Kinsta support team was patient and supported me until I had the issue fixed. Unlike other hosting platforms, they don’t just share an article or link and leave you to figure things out on your own. They stay with you until your problem is solved. The service itself is incredible as well. Since moving my WordPress site to Kinsta, I have had no downtime, no unexplained white-outs leaving me to scramble to fix an issue that was non-existent. Their affordable plans allowed me to start small and upgrade as my number of enrolled students grew. With Kinsta, I never worry about the hosting for my site.
WordPress Membership Site Hosting Tools You Need
PHP Version Switching
Set different versions of PHP for your live site and staging environment, and easily switch engines in one-click.
Extra Disk Space
Images, videos, profile information, and discussions — data adds up fast! Add extra disk space to your plan in the MyKinsta dashboard for more storage when you need it.
Backups
Get six different types of automatic and manual backups, including hourly and six-hourly backup add-ons — essential for WordPress membership site with dynamic content.
New Relic
License required to run New Relic
Two-Factor Authentication
Access authenticator-based two factor authentication in the MyKinsta dashboard that doesn’t rely on mobile phones and can be used with popular password managers like 1Password and LastPass.
Malware Removal
- An inspection of the site and a deep scan of the site’s files to identify malware.
- Repair of the WordPress core by installing a clean copy of the core files.
- Identification and removal of infected plugins and themes.
Redis
Use Redis to store values generated by WordPress’ native object cache in a persistent manner so cached objects can be reused between page loads.
Staging Environment
Speed up your development workflow with one-click staging for testing and fine-tuning before pushing new pages and features live. Kinsta has 42,300 staging sites in use and counting!
MyKinsta Dashboard
We built MyKinsta specifically for WordPress, so you’ll find all the WordPress-specific membership website hosting tools you need to create and move sites, configure for speed and security, view analytics, access 24/7 live chat support, and more. You can book a live Demo!
We Are Here for You Around the Clock
Chat to one of our support engineers in real-time and get expert help with your WordPress membership site. Whether it’s 2am or 2pm, our team covers every time zone, working around the clock to assist customers in over 120 countries.
24/7 live support
Website crashes don’t work to a 9 to 5 schedule. They often strike at the worst possible times, day and night. That’s why we offer customer support every hour, every day.
In-depth insights
It’s our goal to make sure your site is always running at peak performance. That’s why we use our built-in Kinsta APM tool that provides zero-hassle performance monitoring for your WordPress website.
We know WordPress
Our support team is the best in the industry because we only hire WordPress developers and Linux engineers, including many who’ve managed their own servers and coded WordPress plugins.
Proactive monitoring
We monitor the status of all sites we host every 2 minutes. In the rare event your WordPress membership site goes down, our staff will be instantly alerted and will start investigating before you get in touch.
Our WordPress site is at the core of our business and we know it is vital that we use the best possible hosting and have just-in-time access to quality hosting support. The limitations of our previous cloud-based hosting became apparent following a massive increase in website traffic during the COVID-19 pandemic. We reached out to Kinsta and they stepped up providing amazing support during service testing, site migration and subsequently in optimizing our site performance. I have absolutely no hesitation in recommending them as the premium WordPress hosting service!
WordPress Hosting Features Available With Every Plan
Configure Kinsta to meet your needs. Get all the features and tools you need to make the development and running of your WordPress membership site faster and your life easier.
Convenient Features
- Server-level caching
- WordPress-specific security rules.
- Free Cloudflare integration, which includes a secure firewall, DDoS protection, and HTTP/3 support.
- Detailed analytics including bandwidth, CDN usage and insights, cache HIT and MISS ratio, and performance data
- Self-healing PHP that auto-restarts if PHP goes down for any reason
- Easy-to-use site creation and migration request wizard
- WooCommerce-specific optimizations for ecommerce site
Tools You Will Love
- Automatic Cloudflare SSL certificates, or install your own custom SSL certificates in the MyKinsta dashboard
- PHP version switching
- Purge site cache from the dashboard
- Search and replace tool for bulk site updates (for example, change HTTP URLs to HTTPS or update old shortcodes)
- Free Kinsta APM tool for monitoring and debugging WordPress performance issues.
- Multi-user permissions and roles, allowing you to define access on both the site and company level
- Enable WordPress debug mode through MyKinsta
Kinsta has been an invaluable partner from day one. We shifted from a well-known service provider where we were paying three times as much with no way near the service and competence offered by Kinsta. Our website, os.me, gets 80% of its traffic from our registered members. Usual WordPress performance techniques fall a bit short for a platform like ours. Kinsta WordPress platform with caching, inbuilt CDN & support for plugins like WP Rocket made it very easy for us to get a good performance despite the traffic pattern. Truth be told, we can’t imagine going with any other provider. Service, pricing, turnaround time, and technical excellence — Kinsta has exceeded our expectations on every front.
Try It Risk-Free
Get two months of free WordPress membership site hosting when you pay annually. Includes free migrations and 30-day money-back guarantee.