WordPress Membership Website Hosting
Get a powerful WordPress solution that’s optimized for logged-in members. You’ll be ready for high traffic and able to focus on catering to your audience.
Built for Uptime
Your site will run on an isolated container for high performance and reliability. No shared resources. Plus, we provide a 99.9% uptime SLA and include free site uptime monitoring. Any problems, we’ll know before anyone and be right on it.
High-Performance Infrastructure
Take advantage of Google Cloud Platform’s highest CPU machines, on their Premium Tier Network, and plenty of Dedicated resources. Be ready for uncached page requests.
Powerful Management Tools
It’s easy to make improvements with our simple one-click staging, APM tool, and easy PHP version switching. Plus, data is served fast with automatic database optimization, and optional Redis object cache.
Free Premium Migration
Our global team of migration experts will save you hours or days of work by handling your migration. We work 24/7/365 so you can schedule a migration window that minimizes downtime for your users.
Trusted by 120,000+ Organizations
- Membership by Supsystic
- Paid Member Subscriptions
- Simple Membership
- MemberPress
- Ultimate Membership Pro
- LearnDash
- Restrict Content Pro
- Paid Memberships Pro
- And more…
Work with Your Favorite Membership Software
We support the most popular WordPress membership solutions 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 |
Membership (Hosting) Has Its Perks
A Kinsta site saves you time and money by including more “perks” or “extras” that simply aren’t included with other hosts. Skip the expense and time spent on configuring other plugins and save it for building your business!
Membership Platform Developer Trusts Kinsta for Hosting
MemberDev has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs and companies build WordPress membership sites. They focus on membership sites exclusively.
MemberDev turned to Kinsta for hosting client sites for the back-end tools, performance, and scalability.
“Save yourself A LOT of time and energy and just host with Kinsta. Everything from tools to support is top notch, which is exactly what you need when managing high performance membership sites.”
⎻ Ali Jafarian | MemberDev | Founder
Scale Your Site 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 With Control
Caching content, and not caching certain content, is important. We have you covered with server-level caching and Edge Caching with simple purge and exclusion controls.
Redis Object Cache
Our Redis add-on makes object caching a breeze. Less queries on your database mean faster performance for your learners.
Redis Add-on
24/7/365 Expert Support
When you need help, 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
Online Educator Grows with Kinsta
Instructional Designer Dr. Jennifer Jacobs has vast experience in education from early childhood to adult learning. She shares her wealth of knowledge with online courses.
“Kinsta’s support is incredible! 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 platform itself is incredible as well. Since moving my WordPress site to Kinsta, I have had no downtime and no unexplained white-outs. Their affordable plans allowed me to start small and upgrade as my number of enrolled students grew. I never worry about the hosting for my site.”
⎻ Jennifer Jacobs | The Learning Professor | Founder
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 Membership Site Performing?
Find out if anything is slowing down your site from our team of experts for free.
Locate Near Your Members
We offer 37 data centers all over the world to get your site running as fast as possible by being close to the majority of your members.
Plus, our global CDN with 260+ points-of-presence keeps your site speedy for everyone.
- Orange
- Data Centers (37)
- Purple
- CDN Locations (260)
WordPress Membership Hosting Pricing
For membership sites we provide specialized Single Site Business plans ready for the high demand, including 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
MyKinsta is your new favorite dashboard for easily controlling settings and accessing advanced tools all from one place.
One-Click Staging
Test out new ideas or changes 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 everything works optimally by changing PHP versions with just a click. Try different versions on staging and live environments.
Automatic Backups
Focus on serving your members while we take automatic backups and store them daily. Take manual backups as well. Optional 6-hour or hourly backups available.
IP Deny and Controls
Protect your valuable content for paying members only. In addition to your membership plugin controls, you can block IP addresses of malicious actors.
- Database search and replace
- Free SSL, Wildcard, or use your own
- Force HTTPS
- Unlimited users with access controls
- Site Access / Server Logs
- User Activity Logs
- SSH, SFTP, and WP CLI
- Kinsta API
- Redirects (with Nginx / RegEx)
- Site preview (no DNS work needed)
- Two-factor Authentication
- Detailed site analytics
Try It Risk Free
Take your membership site further with no extra work for you or your team. 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 membership sites?
We recommend having plenty of PHP threads (formerly called workers) for logged-in users and site-level caching with simple purging controls. 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 videos on your servers?
Yes, if your website meets certain technical requirements. See the requirements on our Docs.
Can you host a multisite install?
Yes. WP 65k and any plan above that can host a multisite. There are no hard limits on how many sites you can host, but you will want to be sure you have enough server resources. Learn more about multisite hosting.
Can I try Kinsta’s Managed WordPress Membership 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.
