WPServeur Alternative

Introduction

WPServeur was one of the first managed WordPress hosting companies in France. They can be attributed to helping pave the way for WordPress in the French market and are very active in the community.

With that being said, there are some significant differences between how WPServeur and Kinsta’s premium infrastructure is built and operates, especially when it comes to developer-friendly features.

We regularly encounter WPServeur clients coming to us because they need a host that offers 24/7/365 support. WPServeur only provides limited support on the weekends and within certain windows during the week.

For a premium host, this isn’t acceptable. Your website should always be mission-critical, not when it’s already gone down. Their lack of critical tools, such as SSH and WP-CLI, also put massive restrictions on developers’ workflows, productivity, and automation.

People ask us how we’re different from WPServeur, and that’s the question we’ll answer here. Below, we’ll dive into how Kinsta is not your typical WordPress host and the benefits we offer.

Kinsta is Built for Performance and Scalability

Kinsta’s unique, powerful hosting solution doesn’t fit into any of the categories of traditional hosting, such as shared, VPS, or dedicated plans. Our infrastructure was custom-built to deliver unparalleled performance and support. 

The raw cost of building your own hosting environment and configuring your applications is cheaper.

Our scalable infrastructure is ready to handle your sudden surges in traffic and load. With our isolated software container technology, hardware resources are allocated to each site container automatically by our virtual machines on an as-needed basis.

The result is a hosting configuration that is secure and private by design while simultaneously allowing server resources to scale up or down as needed based on the demands of the site.

At WPServeur, they don’t use container technology. They claim to use a hybrid system (between shared and VPS), but if PHP crashing takes down the whole server, then in reality, it’s shared hosting.

The only way to scale is to upgrade your plan. So if your site gets a sudden peak of traffic, it could buckle under the load. The big risk is that this could then impact others on the same server.

If you need something with better performance at WPServeur, they do offer dedicated servers. These start at a little over 950€/month. At Kinsta, once you reach our Enterprise tier, at $675/month, we have some flexibility to work with you and create a customized plan if needed.

Every site is different, and some are simply horribly optimized for large spikes in traffic. That’s why we also offer a high-performance dedicated server solution that’s specifically designed to address massive traffic events that you know are going to happen.

Starting at just $35 per month, Kinsta plans include all of these technical elements and more. We also provide unmatched site performance. This is because we only use the latest and fastest technologies for our tech stack.

For example, in addition to Google Cloud Platform’s world-class architecture, we also use isolated container technology. For every site hosted here, we use LXD-managed hosts and LXC software containers. This means that every site has its own isolated container equipped with all the necessary resources, including MySQL, PHP, Linux, and Nginx. 

Kinsta’s scalable cloud infrastructure also enables you to upgrade or downgrade with ease. We have custom-compiled Linux packages and Nginx rulesets to maximize the performance of your WordPress sites, as well as more than 30 different software packages and PHP extensions.

In addition, configuration is never a concern. You can launch a new WordPress site quickly and easily directly from your MyKinsta dashboard and choose from any of our 35 global data centers. 

Another benefit of using Kinsta is our unique caching system that helps to optimize speed and performance.

As part of our Cloudflare integration, Edge Caching saves your Kinsta site/page cache to any of Cloudflare’s global network of 275+ data centers.

Edge Caching is included free with all Kinsta plans, doesn’t require a separate plugin, and cuts the time needed to serve cached WordPress HTML by an average of more than 50%.

We also use compute-optimized C2 Google Cloud machines that enable our customers to see significant improvements in average response times:

In fact, depending on the type of site you’re running, switching to Kinsta could result in an immediate speed improvement of between 20% and 300%:

I am pleasantly surprised at the ease and speed of setting up WordPress with Kinsta. I love the staging environment and the deployment to production!

Kinsta managed WordPress hosting streamlines all aspects of server and site management. Our experienced technicians handle everything for you. In the long run, this can save you a lot of time and money.

MyKinsta: A Custom-Built Dashboard for Powerful Site Management

When you sign up for a WPServeur account, you’ll have access to a basic portal with your account information, resources, etc. However, you won’t get a dashboard that is specifically optimized for WordPress site management as you do with Kinsta.

At Kinsta, our mission is to make managing your WordPress site as simple as possible. This is why we custom-built our own user portal, MyKinsta:

Let’s take a look at some of the powerful features that make our MyKinsta dashboard so useful:

• One-click staging environments, and an option to restore backups to production or staging.
• Quick phpMyAdmin access.
• Premium Amazon Route 53 DNS, to manage your DNS records directly in the dashboard. 
• Detailed analytics and insights such as bandwidth and visitor data, CDN usage and insights, performance analysis data, and cache HIT and MISS ratio. 
• Free, one-click CDN setup. 
• A WordPress debugging tool.
• A search and replace tool to perform bulk updates with ease.
• One-click PHP version switching, as well as the option to restart PHP when needed.
• Automatic MySQL database optimizations.
• A dashboard tool to purge the site cache.
• Easy way to create on-demand backups
• A one-click ionCube enabler.
• Free Cloudflare SSL certificates with wildcard support, and the option to import your own. 
• Simple password protection for your environment, with the option to add your SSH keys to the dashboard to strengthen security. 
• A multilingual dashboard that’s available in 10 languages: English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Swedish, Danish, and Dutch.

Kinsta has allowed us to offer a bulletproof service to our top tier clients and keep them happy. Especially those who have traffic spikes with sudden server demand.

At Kinsta, we value our client’s feedback. We look for opportunities to improve and regularly incorporate the requests and feedback we receive to enhance our offerings. We’re always innovating and exploring new ways to make your website and hosting experience better!

Safe and Secure

With Kinsta as your managed WordPress host, this is never an issue. We take both active and passive measures to safeguard every site hosted on our platform, including:

• Monitoring your sites every two minutes for uptime, 720 times a day
• Implementing strict software-based restrictions
• Responding to DDoS attacks as they happen with our free DDoS protection, and stopping malicious code from entering our network.
• Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) support
• A secure firewall powered by Cloudflare
• Automated backups for all plans
• Isolated LXC containers
• Strict software-based restrictions
• Self-healing PHP
• Only support for encrypted SFTP and SSH connections (no FTP)

Kinsta provides premium uptime monitoring for all of your WordPress sites via our in-house developed monitoring system. The status of the sites hosted on our platform are checked every two minutes, meaning up to 720 times a day.

All sites on Kinsta are also automatically protected by Cloudflare’s firewall, which includes free DDoS protection. With our Cloudflare integration, you’ll get the benefits of enhanced security and performance without having to configure your own Cloudflare account.

In the rare event that something were to happen to your site, we would contact you ASAP. We also offer a free 100% hack-fix guarantee, meaning that we would fix the problem with no extra charge to you.

Kinsta Has a Global Presence

Kinsta has a global presence, with 35 data centers (and counting) spanning five continents. Our massive footprint makes it easy for you to pick a different data center for each of your websites. Plus, there are no extra fees or hidden charges!

Our data center locations include:

WPServeur offers only one data center in France.

Optimized for WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads

When you’re running an ecommerce business, it’s essential that you have a host capable of handling the particularly challenging and complicated demands associated with that kind of website. This is why our Kinsta platform is optimized for online stores.

Our solution is configured to work out of the box for WordPress, WooCommerce, and Easy Digital Download sites. We take care of caching for you at the server level to deliver fast page loading times. To further optimize the speed and performance of your online store, we offer automatic purging of cache and archive pages, as well as:

• Excluding ‘My Account’, checkout, cart, and other pages that shouldn’t be cached.
• Automatically bypassing the cache for users when “woocommerce_items_in_cart” or “edit_items_in_cart” are detected, to ensure a smooth and seamless checkout process.
• Putting specific rules in place to allow EDD and WooCommerce functionality during server-level page caching.

Feature Comparison Overview

Now that we’ve made it this far, let’s take a look at some of the biggest differences between Kinsta vs WPServeur:

	Kinsta	WPServeur
Pricing	Plans start at $35/month	Plans start at 21.5€/month
Money-Back Guarantee	30 days on all plans	7 days on all plans
Premium 24×7 Support	All plans	10 am CET to 9 pm CET
Core Infrastructure	Same across all plans (GCP)	Same across all platforms
Global Data Centers	35 locations	1 (France)
Continent Locations	5	1
Bandwidth Limits	No limits (within AUP)	X
Free Migrations	All plans	X
One-Click Backup and Restore	All plans	Paid add-on
PHP Versions	PHP 8.0, 8.1	8.0
Firewall	✓	X
Switch PHP Engine	One-click change in dashboard	X
Free CDN	34 (all regions)	X
Built-in Edge Caching	All plans	Not specified
Free APM Tool	Kinsta APM	Not specified
Premium DNS	Amazon Route 53	X
Free SSL Certificates	All plans	X
Free DDoS Protection	✓	X
Uptime Monitoring	All plans	X
Resource Limits	Only limited by PHP workers	Not specified
Multisite Support	Pro plans and higher	Agency Plan
IP Geolocation	✓	X
Reverse Proxy Support	✓	X
Redis Add-on	✓	Premium add-on
New Relic (license required)	✓	X
Multilingual Dashboard	English, Spanish, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, French, Swedish, Danish, Japan	French and English

Best Affiliate Program in the Industry

Kinsta always goes above and beyond to exceed our clients’ expectations, which is one of the reasons many of our happy customers are often eager to help spread the word about our WordPress hosting solutions. This has helped position us to become one of the fastest-growing hosts in the industry.

This is also why we’re proud to offer an affiliate program, one of the highest paying in the industry, that provides the opportunity for true profit sharing as well as an effective way to earn a passive income!

As a Kinsta affiliate partner, you can earn as much as $500 (depending on the plan) for every signup referred to us. In addition, for the lifetime of the customers referred, you’ll receive a 10% monthly recurring commission.

Another benefit of our affiliate program is that we use a custom-built dashboard so you won’t ever have to deal with confusing third-party platforms. Everything is accessible and straightforward.

WPServeur also has an affiliate program. They offer 20% of a customer’s first monthly payment and a recurring 10% for the lifetime of the customer. This is managed through a popular WordPress affiliate plugin they use on their website.