# Kinsta Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/hosting/kinsta/ Managed WordPress hosting that runs each site in an isolated Linux container, with a Cloudflare-powered CDN and a choice of 30 data center locations. ## Who it suits WordPress sites that want each install in its own isolated container with a Cloudflare-backed CDN included, and a data centre chosen from thirty locations. Cron jobs run on the server rather than on page visits. Consider something else if The entry plan is $35 a month for a single site, which is a large step up from shared hosting if you do not need the isolation. ## Adoption signals - Detected running on 145,013 live sites (BuiltWith, checked 2026-09-12) ## iScore 58 / 100 (80% interval 54–62), rank 3 of 5 in hosting — interval overlaps the next rank, so this is an ordering, not a finding. inetGeek's own reading, computed from sourced facts against category peers by disclosed rules. Not a provider claim. Intervals are 80%; a provider with few documented facts is pulled toward the category middle rather than scored on what little is known. Method: https://inetgeek.com/iscore/. Full output with every criterion's basis: https://inetgeek.com/scores.json. Every hosting peer ranked: https://inetgeek.com/hosting/kinsta/alternatives/ - Price: 21 (13–30), weight 24%, 3 of 4 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: free_card_required - Capacity and limits: 53 (42–65), weight 24%, 5 of 6 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: monthly_visits_cap - Capabilities: 89 (83–95), weight 14%, 6 of 6 criteria scored - Trust and compliance: 75 (68–81), weight 14%, 9 of 10 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: uptime_sla - Evidence: 99 (99–99), weight 10%, 4 of 4 criteria scored - Adoption: 50 (40–60), weight 14%, 1 of 2 criteria scored ## What the documentation says ### Pricing - Free tier: No — Only free offer is a first month free for new customers on select plans, plus a 30-day money-back guarantee. ([source](https://kinsta.com/pricing/), read 2026-09-13) - Kind of free offer: No free offer ([source](https://kinsta.com/pricing/), read 2026-09-13) - Entry paid plan: $35/month for the entry single-site plan (first month $0, then $35/month); $30/month if paid annually. ([source](https://kinsta.com/wordpress-hosting/), read 2026-09-14) - Pricing model: Fixed monthly or annual plan tiers, each including a set number of WordPress installs; annual billing gives two months free, and visit/storage/CDN usage above the plan limits is billed as overage fees. ([source](https://kinsta.com/pricing/), read 2026-09-13) - When you exceed a cap: Sites stay online and are billed an overage fee of $0.50 per 1,000 visits; disk space overage is prorated at $2 per GB per month ([source](https://kinsta.com/docs/billing/wordpress-hosting-plans/overages/), read 2026-09-05) ### Limits - Storage (entry plan): 10GB storage on the Single 20GB plan (cheapest paid WordPress hosting plan) ([source](https://kinsta.com/wordpress-hosting/), read 2026-09-14) - Sites or apps included: 1 WordPress install on the Single 20GB plan (cheapest paid WordPress hosting plan) ([source](https://kinsta.com/wordpress-hosting/), read 2026-09-05) - Monthly visits cap: No visit cap on the entry plan: Single 20GB is billed on bandwidth, at 20GB a month. Kinsta offers visits-billed plans as the alternative, where the Business Launch tier estimates 75,000 visits a month. ([source](https://kinsta.com/wordpress-hosting/), read 2026-09-14) - Included bandwidth: 20GB server bandwidth a month on the Single 20GB plan, plus 125GB of CDN bandwidth. ([source](https://kinsta.com/wordpress-hosting/), read 2026-09-14) - Max request duration: 300 seconds (default PHP max_execution_time) ([source](https://kinsta.com/docs/wordpress-hosting/php/), read 2026-09-14) ### Deployment - Git deployment: Limited ([source](https://kinsta.com/docs/wordpress-hosting/site-management/git/), read 2026-09-14) - Containers: Supported ([source](https://kinsta.com/docs/wordpress-hosting/wordpress-getting-started/wordpress-infrastructure/), read 2026-09-14) - Scheduled jobs: Supported — Real server cron jobs per site container; the minimum interval is 5 minutes. ([source](https://kinsta.com/docs/wordpress-hosting/site-management/cron-jobs/), read 2026-09-14) ### Infrastructure - Persistent storage: Supported ([source](https://kinsta.com/docs/wordpress-hosting/connecting-with-sftp/), read 2026-09-05) - Managed databases: Supported ([source](https://kinsta.com/docs/wordpress-hosting/wordpress-getting-started/wordpress-infrastructure/), read 2026-09-05) - Edge network: Supported ([source](https://kinsta.com/docs/wordpress-hosting/wordpress-cdn/kinsta-cdn/), read 2026-09-14) - Regions: 30 data centers ([source](https://kinsta.com/docs/service-information/data-center-locations/), read 2026-09-05) ### Support - Support on entry paid plan: 24/7 human support in 8 languages, on every plan including the cheapest. ([source](https://kinsta.com/plans/), read 2026-09-14) ### Compliance - SOC 2: SOC 2 Type II report, audited by BARR Advisory with Vanta as the GRC platform; copy requested under NDA from the Trust Report page. ([source](https://kinsta.com/docs/service-information/soc-2/), read 2026-09-13) - ISO 27001: Trust Center compliance list shows ISO 27001:2022 alongside ISO 27017 and ISO 27018; the ISO 27001 certificate is a requestable document there. Page renders client-side (Vanta portal); text read with a rendering fetch. ([source](https://trust.kinsta.com/), read 2026-09-13) - HIPAA: No HIPAA-compliant hosting product and no Business Associate Agreements; Kinsta says PHI should not be stored or transmitted on the platform. ([source](https://kinsta.com/docs/wordpress-hosting/wordpress-reference/technical-faq/), read 2026-09-13) - GDPR / data residency: DPA: the customer selects the data center region its applications are hosted in; some parts of the Services still require international transfers, covered by the SCCs and UK Addendum. ([source](https://kinsta.com/legal/data-processing-addendum/), read 2026-09-13) - PCI DSS: PCI compliance is not guaranteed and Kinsta does not audit customer sites; customers have passed third-party PCI scans while hosted on Kinsta. ([source](https://kinsta.com/docs/wordpress-hosting/wordpress-reference/technical-faq/), read 2026-09-13) - Encryption at rest: DPA Annex II: all Customer Personal Data stored in data centers — all Customer Applications and access logs — is encrypted at rest. ([source](https://kinsta.com/legal/data-processing-addendum/), read 2026-09-13) - Role-based access control: MyKinsta roles: a single Company Owner plus three company-level roles (Administrator, Developer, Billing), and Site Administrator or Site Developer granted per site. ([source](https://kinsta.com/docs/company-settings/user-management/), read 2026-09-13) - Dedicated infrastructure: Dedicated virtual server with dedicated CPU and RAM, sold as an add-on to a hosting plan starting at $300 a month. ([source](https://kinsta.com/wordpress-hosting/dedicated/), read 2026-09-13) ## Compared with - [Kinsta vs Pressable](https://inetgeek.com/compare/kinsta-vs-pressable/) - [Kinsta vs Flywheel](https://inetgeek.com/compare/kinsta-vs-flywheel/) - [Kinsta vs WP Engine](https://inetgeek.com/compare/kinsta-vs-wp-engine/)