Kinsta WordPress Hosting Review (2016)

Kinsta participated for the third year in a row in WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks. They had four plans entered into the following ranges: $51-100/month, $101-200/m, $201-500/m, Enterprise ($500+/m).

One of the smaller companies in the space, they are focused on the high end segment of the market with their cheapest plan starting at $100/month. Their infrastructure is entirely hosted on Google's cloud hosting. They appear to be laser focused on catering to clients that really demand top notch performance and are willing to pay for it.

Products

Company /Price Bracket	Plan Name	Monthly Price	Visitors Allowed	Disk Space	Bandwidth	Sites Allowed
Kinsta $51-100	Business 1	$100	Unlimited	5GB SSD	50GB	1
Kinsta $101-200	Business 2	$200	Unlimited	20GB SSD	100GB	5
Kinsta $201-500	Business 4	$400	Unlimited	40GB SSD	400GB	20
Kinsta Enterprise	Enterprise 4	$1,500	Unlimited	200GB SSD	1.5TB	100

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Performance Review

LoadStorm Results

	Total Requests	Total Errors	Peak RPS	Average RPS	Peak Response Time(ms)	Average Response Time(ms)	Total Data Transferred (GB)	Peak Throughput (MB/s)	Average Throughput (MB/s)
Kinsta $51-100	416335	544	324.57	231.3	15059	317	24.01	19.91	13.34
Kinsta $101-200	546252	0	425.67	303.47	9078	286	31.47	24.95	17.48
Kinsta $201-500	671665	47	528.38	373.15	9991	285	38.68	31.73	21.49
Kinsta Enterprise	1314178	274	1041.28	730.1	15014	340	75.7	60.75	42.06

These results are impressive. The worst issue was in the 51-100 range there was a tiny amount of errors towards the end of the test, resulting in a minuscule 0.13% error rate. As the tests scaled up from 2,000 to 10,000 users, Kinsta scaled well across price tiers and performed in the top tier of each price bracket.

Blitz Results

	Hits	Errors	Timeouts	Average Hits/Second	Average Response Time	Fastest Response	Slowest Response
Kinsta $51-100	54273	7	0	905	84	83	86
Kinsta $101-200	81397	3	0	1357	84	83	85
Kinsta $201-500	81386	3	0	1356	84	84	86
Kinsta Enterprise	135485	7	0	2258	85	83	87

The Blitz test is designed to make sure that static assets (which should be served from cache) are being handled properly and can scale to very heavy big spikes in traffic. Kinsta had 2ms response time spreads max and virtually no errors across every plan. It was incredibly stable and handled this test flawlessly at every price tier.

Uptime

	StatusCake	UptimeRobot
Kinsta 51-100	99.99	100
Kinsta 101-200	99.98	99.99
Kinsta 201-500	99.98	100

Kinsta was nearly flawless on both monitors with a minimum 99.98% observed uptime. Uptime wasn't tracked on most Enterprise level plans because they are just so expensive that it felt wasteful to run them for a long period doing nothing but monitoring uptime if the company had other plans in the testing which could also be measured.

WebPageTest / WPPerformanceTester

I mention these because they are in the full testing but I won't bother putting them here. No company had any significant issue with either and it's not worth writing about. If you're very interested in seeing the geographical response times on WPT or what the raw computing power test of WPPerformanceTester measured, read the full results.

Conclusion

Kinsta put on another marvelous performance across every single price bracket. For the third year in a row they earned Review Signal's Top Tier WordPress Hosting Performance award. Since I don't have the graphical talent in house, I'm going to shamelessly steal one of their graphics which pretty much sums it all up.