Kinsta Review (2018)

Kinsta participated for the fourth time in our WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks (2018). This review is based off the results of that test. This year Kinsta participated in the 25-50, 51-100, 101-200, 201-500, and Enterprise price tiers.

In the previous test, Kinsta earned Top Tier status in all four price brackets it entered.  In 2018, Kinsta started offering cheaper plans and has competed in an additional, lower price tier.

The Products

Plan Name Plan Monthly Price Plan Visitors Allowed Plan Memory/RAM Plan Disk Space Plan Bandwidth
Plan Sites Allowed
Starter $30 20000 - 5GB Unlimited 1
Pro $60 40,000 - 5GB Unlimited 2
Business 1 $100 100,000 - 10GB Unlimited 3
Business 2 $200 250000 - 20GB SSD Unlimited 10
Enterprise 1 $600 1 Million - 80GB SSD Unlimited 60

Performance Review

Load Storm

Plan Tier 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)
$25-50 294,176 3 225.5 163.43 10,036 355 21.38 17.58 11.88
$51-100 425,597 1 332.65 236.44 10,017 377 30.98 25.62 17.21
$101-200 556,007 48 436.15 308.89 10,101 375 40.45 32.44 22.47
$200-500 688,856 0 543.12 382.7 4,407 358 50.08 40.47 27.82
Enterprise 1,720,465 0 1,391.42 955.81 3,906 417 112.7 91.9 62.61

The Load Storm test is designed to simulate real users coming to the site, logging in and browsing the site bursting some of the caching mechanisms typically found on managed WordPress hosts.

Kinsta aced the Load Storm tests across every tier. Zero errors in multiple price tiers and minimal errors in the others. The response times were kept fast and stable. It scaled up from the smallest test to Enterprise test without issue.

Load Impact

Plan Tier Requests Errors Data Transferred (GB) Peak Average Load Time (Seconds) Peak Average Bandwidth (Mbps)
Peak Average Requests/Sec
$25-50 337031 0 18.05 0.41 304 694
$51-100 672240 0 36 0.416 583 1300
$101-200 1016163 0 54.42 0.395 863 1920
$200-500 1014718 0 54.34 0.411 866 1930
Enterprise 1367747 0 73.4 0.802 1120 2540

The Load Impact test makes sure static caching is effective so that if a page gets a lot of traffic the site will keep responding without issue.

Perfection. Zero errors across 5 separate tests.

Uptime

Plan Tier UptimeRobot StatusCake
$25-50 100 100
$51-100 100 100
$101-200 100 100
$200-500 100 100
Enterprise 100 100

Perfect. 100% across 5 plans and two separate monitors.

WebPageTest / WPPerformanceTester

Plan Tier $25-50 $51-100 $101-200 $200-500 Enterprise
Dulles 0.387 0.373 0.377 0.396 0.382
Denver 1.287 1.163 1.411 1.134 1.245
LA 0.833 0.79 0.81 0.832 1.154
London 1.076 1.104 1.073 1.177 1.331
Frankfurt 1.014 1.009 1.01 1.031 1.103
Rose Hill, Mauritius 2.436 2.446 2.433 2.439 2.444
Singapore 1.902 1.729 1.728 1.712 1.774
Mumbai 2.114 2.279 2.221 2.119 2.108
Japan 1.186 1.183 1.234 1.268 1.281
Sydney 1.609 1.766 1.763 1.772 1.611
Brazil 1.513 1.364 1.384 1.508 1.404

WPT test results looked normal.

Plan Tier PHP Bench WP Bench
$25-50 8.853 1036.26943
$51-100 8.783 1173.70892
$101-200 8.974 1100.110011
$200-500 9.048 1047.120419
Enterprise 8.787 1207.729469

The WPPerformanceTester results looked normal. The WP Bench results stood out though. The database connections are consistently very fast compared to their competitors at higher price tiers when plans tend to run separate and/or multiple database servers.

Conclusion

Kinsta earned itself five Top Tier WordPress Hosting Performance Awards in 2018. It had perfect uptime across every plan. It had zero errors on Load Impact. It had 2/5 Load Storm tests without any errors and only 52 errors total from 3.685 million requests. No signs of stress showed on any test. Kinsta has consistently brought their A game to WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks, this year was no exception. It's nice to see them offering newer, cheaper plans that allow people on smaller budgets access their offerings. A huge congratulations to them for earning the most Top Tier Hosting Performance awards of any company in 2018.

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Kevin Ohashi is the geek-in-charge at Review Signal. He is passionate about making data meaningful for consumers. Kevin is based in Washington, DC.





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