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 PHP Workers

PHP workers determine how many simultaneous requests your site can handle. 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.

KinstaMonthly Cost Without Kinsta
Cloudflare EnterpriseIncluded$250+
Cloudflare
CDNIncluded$8.99
Rocket CDN
Advanced CachingIncluded$4
WP Rocket
BackupsIncluded$7.41
BlogVault
MigrationsIncluded$5.83
UpdraftPlus Premium
Uptime monitoringIncluded$10
Pingdom
SSL CertificatesIncluded$4
SSL.com
FreeTotal $290+
per month

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!

Screenshot: PHLEARN Website using Kinsta WordPress LMS Hosting

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

Read Full Customer Story

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. 

Learn More

Redis Object Cache

Our Redis add-on makes object caching a breeze. Less queries on your database provides faster performance for your learners.

Learn More

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

Photos of the Kinsta support team

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 36 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.

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Data Centers (36)
Purple
CDN Locations (260)
Locations of Google Cloud data centers on a world map

Pricing for LMS Hosting

We provide specialized Single Site plans for high-demand LMS sites that include plenty of dedicated PHP Workers.

Business Plans WordPress Hosting Plans

  1. Save $180 by paying annually!

    Business 1

    $90
    USD month
    $75
    USD month billed annually
    Sign up
    Monthly Visits
    100,000 visits
    Storage Space
    10GB Storage
    Free CDN
    400GB CDN
    PHP Workers
    6 PHP workers
    Backup Retention
    14 days backup retention
  2. Save $340 by paying annually!

    Business 2

    $170
    USD month
    $142
    USD month billed annually
    Sign up
    Monthly Visits
    250,000 visits
    Storage Space
    10GB Storage
    Free CDN
    600GB CDN
    PHP Workers
    6 PHP workers
    Backup Retention
    14 days backup retention
  3. Save $580 by paying annually!

    Business 3

    $290
    USD month
    $242
    USD month billed annually
    Sign up
    Monthly Visits
    400,000 visits
    Storage Space
    15GB Storage
    Free CDN
    800GB CDN
    PHP Workers
    8 PHP workers
    Backup Retention
    20 days backup retention
  4. Save $750 by paying annually!

    Business 4

    $375
    USD month
    $313
    USD month billed annually
    Sign up
    Monthly Visits
    600,000 visits
    Storage Space
    15GB Storage
    Free CDN
    1,200GB CDN
    PHP Workers
    8 PHP workers
    Backup Retention
    20 days backup retention

Enterprise Plans WordPress Hosting Plans

  1. Save $1,250+ by paying annually!

    Enterprise plans

    starting from
    $625
    USD month
    $521
    USD month billed annually
    Contact sales
    WordPress Installs
    1+ WordPress install
    Monthly Visits
    1,000,000+ visits
    Storage Space
    15+GB Storage
    Free CDN
    2,000+GB CDN
    Free Premium Migrations
    1+ premium migration
    PHP Workers
    10+ PHP workers
    Backup Retention
    30 days backup retention
  2. 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. Contact sales

Optional Add-Ons

Premium Staging Environments

Each Premium Staging Environment has 12 CPUs, 8 GB of Memory, and the same number of PHP Workers you have for your live site.

$20

monthly / environments

Redis

Open source, in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache and message broker.

$100

monthly / site

Nginx

Nginx Reverse Proxy support to load WordPress from a subdirectory while a separate website (WordPress or otherwise) loads at the root domain.

$50

monthly / site

External Backup

Automatically back up your WordPress site once per week or per month to either Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage.

$2

monthly / site

+$1

GB bandwidth

Extra Backups

Do you have an ecommerce site, membership site, a news publication with continuously changing content and data? Our extra backup options are a perfect fit.

Every 6 hours

$20

monthly / site

Every hour

$100

monthly / site

Disk Space Add-On

For additional flexibility, you can increase the storage space of your hosting plan with a few clicks inside the MyKinsta dashboard.

+20GB

$20

monthly / company

PHP Memory Limit New

Increase the default PHP memory limit to 512MB for one of your websites.

Note: currently available for business plans only.

$50

monthly / site

Complete Control with MyKinsta

Easily control settings and access advanced tools all in one place with your MyKinsta Dashboard.

Screenshot of the default 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

Read Full Customer Story

Screenshot: Online Guitar Books Website using Kinsta WordPress LMS Hosting

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 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 Workers. 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?

Pretty much. 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.

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