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WordPress on Kinsta

Kinsta publishes its own guide for deploying WordPress.

PHP content management system that requires a database and persistent filesystem for uploads and plugins.

01.

What WordPress needs.

Every host claims to run WordPress, so the claim on its own decides nothing. These are the things WordPress actually requires from the platform underneath it, and what Kinsta publishes about each. Kinsta documents 4 of the 4.

Persistent storage

Supported

Uploads, themes and plugins are written to disk while the site is running. A host that resets the filesystem on every deploy loses them.

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  • Connecting with SFTP — Kinsta Docs ↗

    “When you're connected to a WordPress site via SFTP, you gain direct access to the files and folders on the server, allowing you to perform a variety of tasks that can be especially useful for troubleshooting, customizing, or managing your site”

    Read 2026-09-05 · official docs

Managed databases

Supported

Every post, option and user lives in MySQL. Without a managed database you are running, patching and backing one up yourself.

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  • Infrastructure — Kinsta Docs ↗

    “Every site on our platform runs in an isolated software container that contains all of the software resources required to run the site (Linux, NGINX, PHP, MySQL). This means that the software that runs each site is 100% private and is not shared even between your own sites.”

    Read 2026-09-05 · official docs

Storage (entry plan)

10GB storage on the Single 20GB plan (cheapest paid WordPress hosting plan)

A media library grows steadily and is almost never pruned. Disk is the cap a WordPress site reaches first.

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Monthly visits cap

35,000 visits/mo on the Single 35k plan (the entry single-site plan billed by visits; the same plan billed by bandwidth allows 20GB instead)

Managed WordPress plans meter traffic rather than CPU, so the visit ceiling is the real size of the plan you are buying.

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The requirement and the reason it matters are ours. Every value beside them was read from Kinsta's own pages — expand a source to see the sentence it came from.

02.

What Kinsta documents.

Kinsta publishes its own guide for deploying WordPress.

This option installs a fully functional WordPress site that is ready for you to use immediately.

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03.

What it costs to run there.

Entry paid plan
$35/month for the entry single-site plan (first month $0, then $35/month); $350/year if paid annually
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
Regions
30 data centers
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04.

Whether it suits you.

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.

Written by Palash Bagchi on 2026-09-05. This is a recommendation, not a sourced fact — it carries no citation because it is an opinion.

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Zoom out

Best hosting for WordPressEvery provider that documents WordPress, ranked by how they document it.KinstaManaged WordPress hosting that runs each site in an isolated Linux container, with a Cloudflare-powered CDN and a choice of 30 data center locations.