WPServeur alternative: benefits of choosing Kinsta

Kinsta is developer-friendly

Many of us at Kinsta are developers ourselves, that’s why from day one we’ve built our tools and dashboard with WordPress developers in mind. We provide the following features and accessibility to make your workflow more efficient, not all of which are available at WPServeur:

• SSH access, Git, and WP-CLI on all plans from Starter to Enterprise.
• We allow you to use custom setups like Bedrock and Trellis, as well as starter themes such as Sage. This is not possible at WPServeur due to the lack of SSH access.
• We have one-click staging environments which allow you to easily push changes from staging to production as well as a site cloning feature. WPServeur has a cloning feature, but they don't offer backups for it, and there is no way to add multiple domains or restart PHP if needed.
• Kinsta has 6 different types of backups. Included with every plan are automatic daily backups which are stored for 14 days. You can manually download a backup, create a restore point, and automatic system backups are generated when you perform important tasks. For those with constantly changing data, we also offer hourly backup add-ons (every one hour, every 6 hours). WPServeur only has daily and downloadable backups.
• We leave post and page revisions enabled by default. While we recommend limiting or disabling these, we believe this should be your choice. WPServeur limits you to only 3.
• No limits that get in the way of your development workflow. WPServeur, for example, limits the number of files which can be uploaded and viewed in a single directory via FTP to 10,000. This causes headaches for many users as they will be missing files when trying to download manual backups or migrating to another service.
• Loading your site over a reverse proxy is possible, and we have many clients who do so.
• Faster search with the Elasticsearch add-on and faster database performance with the Redis add-on.
• You can add your own New Relic Application Performance Monitoring (APM) API key in our MyKinsta dashboard. Our support team can also enable this for you temporarily to help troubleshoot performance related issues on your WordPress site.

Feature comparison overview

Here is a quick overview of some of the key differences between Kinsta and WPServeur.

Kinsta only supports encrypted SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) and SSH connections (no FTP) when accessing your WordPress sites directly. This ensures that no clear text passwords or file data is ever transferred. WPServeur on the other hand allows FTP connections and doesn't even offer SFTP.

Free migrations

All of our plans include one or more free migrations. After signing up you’ll be able to request a hands-off migration, handled by our team, from our MyKinsta dashboard. WPServeur doesn’t offer free migrations but instead consists of a do-it-yourself plugin. The issue with this method is that it doesn’t bring over data or images stored outside of the /wp-content/ directory. Redirects also don’t get moved, which are critical to prevent SEO disasters. For larger and more complex sites this quickly results in data loss or could even fail entirely if you don’t know what you’re doing.

Unless you’re a developer with time to burn, it’s much safer to let our expert migration team take care of everything for you. We don't use plugins. Moving your site to Kinsta usually won’t incur any downtime and we’ll help you inspect your migrated site prior to going live.

Expert Support

We don’t have level 1 or level 2 support reps. Our entire support team is made up of WordPress developers and Linux hosting engineers many of whom have managed their own servers, created themes and plugins, and contributed back to core. This ensures you’ll receive expert advice from someone who actively uses and develops with WordPress. Every Kinsta client gets to chat with the same team members that support our large enterprise and Fortune 500 companies. In fact, we hire less than 1% of applicants who apply. You won’t find better support anywhere else!

Kinsta provides 24/7 support, 365 days a year in English. Our average ticket response time in Q3 2019 was 1 minute and 19 seconds! Support in French is currently provided between 7 am and 3 pm. Coverage of full-time French support will be available soon. WPServeur only offers support from Monday to Saturday, between 9 am and 6PM. And no support on national holidays.

Support is the biggest thing for me, and the Kinsta's support goes above and beyond every single time. They take your problems and solve them for you — allowing you to do the things that matter most for your business.

Reginald Chan

TEDx Speaker, Serial Entrepreneur

Kinsta also monitors your sites' uptime every minute which means that our slowest response time is 5 minutes to any downtime that may occur. Our staff is alerted instantly and quite often we start resolving the issue before you even contact us. And yes, this includes evenings, weekend, and holidays!

WPServeur does offer phone support, while we don't. We have found that keeping support solely online allows us to better help you troubleshoot your website in a speedy and more efficient manner, as our engineers are able to focus all of their energy on solving your support concerns with the fewest number of distractions and interruptions possible. This, in turn, means that your support requests are ultimately resolved faster. We believe it wouldn’t be possible to provide the same effective assistance over the phone.

Kinsta is truly fantastic. A web host par excellence. I've been working with web hosts for more than a decade, and it's truly difficult to find one that is friendly to developers, prioritizes performance AND allows you the flexibility to build a complex website. Yet what stands out more than anything else is their support team. It's not often that support staff knows way more than I do about making WordPress and BuddyPress work well. And they are accessible in real time, creatively work to solve problems, and even notice things unrelated to the specific issue I ask about that could be improved. I smile every time I work with them. And smiling is hard to do when a server is melting down. Knowing Kinsta has my back makes even the worst server issues tolerable!

Vanessa Harris

Product Manager, Google

Kinsta has a global presence

Kinsta is exclusively powered by the Google Cloud Platform and offers 25 data centers around the globe (6 across Europe), extending across five continents. At Kinsta all data centers are available across all plans (with no extra or hidden charges), starting from as low as $30/mo! You can also choose a different data center of each of your sites. Current locations:

WPServeur offers only one data center in France.

Everything at Kinsta is interconnected over the highly reliable Google Cloud Platform premium tier network. This is designed to minimize distance and hops, resulting in faster and more secure global transport of your data. Beware, some hosting providers might opt for Google’s “standard tier” network service without telling you to cut costs, but we believe in only utilizing the best here at Kinsta.

Choosing a location near you and your visitors will result in faster SFTP download and upload speeds, making file transfers quick and painless. You're back-end WordPress dashboard will also feel more snappy and responsive, especially when uploading files to the media library.

Turbocharging your content delivery

Kinsta cares about the performance of your site, not just from our data center, but at every point around the globe. That’s why we partnered up with KeyCDN, an HTTP/2 and IPv6-enabled content delivery network (CDN), and include free bandwidth across all of our plans.

KeyCDN’s content delivery architecture was built from the ground up with a focus on high-performance and designed for high throughput and low latency. When enabled, your content will be delivered and cached from their 34 POPs around the globe, this includes all regions: America, Europe, Asia, South America, Africa, and Australia!

WPServeur also uses KeyCDN as their CDN partner. However, at Kinsta you can enable the CDN with a single click (no plugins required). At WPServeur, you have to open a support ticket to enable the CDN.

Best affiliate program in the industry

Kinsta has become one of the fastest growing managed WordPress hosts thanks in part to the many happy customers helping to spread the word. Whether you're an agency, freelancer, or blogger, Kinsta is proud to offer true profit sharing with one of the highest paying affiliate programs in the hosting industry.

You earn $50 to $500 after every signup based on the type of plan you refer. On top of that, you get a 10% monthly recurring commission for the lifetime of the customer you referred, enabling you to build passive income.

We never settle for anything less than perfection at Kinsta. That's why we built our WordPress hosting affiliate dashboard from the ground up, meaning you don't have to mess with another confusing and cluttered third-party platform. This allows our developers to easily build in new features as needed to help you earn even more.

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.