Kinsta Alternative
Convesio vs. Kinsta
Kinsta is one of the most popular web hosts for WordPress. But is it the best choice for every type of WordPress site? It depends on exactly what you're looking for in a hosting provider.
Kinsta Alternative
Convesio vs. Kinsta
Kinsta is one of the most popular web hosts for WordPress. But is it the best choice for every type of WordPress site? It depends on exactly what you're looking for in a hosting provider.
How Convesio Compares to Kinsta
Put simply: if you only care about the number of websites, Kinsta is a good option. If you care about performance, uptime, and security, you’ll want Convesio.
If your WordPress website is static content that doesn’t change or receive input from users, you can save a bit on your monthly cost by going with Kinsta’s standard tier bandwidth plan. For sites where speed matters – like eCommerce, membership, learning platforms, and so on, however, this plan probably won’t cut it. In these cases, you’ll want to look for a Kinsta alternative. Convesio is a better choice. Our fully managed WordPress hosting plans shave seconds off the page load times of WordPress sites. This results in a great customer experience and better SEO performance. That’s why Convesio is the one of the best managed WordPress hosts around.
If your site delivers revenue to your business, the ROI will be far higher on Convesio’s platform, as you won’t have any timeouts from heavy traffic loads. For SEO, it’s important to note that Google factors in page speed and bounce rate when calculating organic value on their rankings and quality score for ads. If you do online advertising or rely on organic results from Google and other search engines, Convesio is your best bet.
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| Key Features | Kinsta | Convesio |
|---|---|---|
| Full-page caching | Yes | Yes |
| Slack Support | No | Yes |
| Premium-Tier Bandwidth | Yes | Yes |
| Included 1 Minute Uptime Monitoring | 2 Minutes | Yes |
| Included Malware Scan | Yes | Yes |
| Auto Scaling | No | Yes |
See Auto Scaling In Action
Unlike Kinsta, Convesio offers auto scaling servers that allows your site to scale up resources during high-traffic events, then scale back down when the traffic has subsided.
See how easy it is to set up auto scaling on Convesio.
See Auto Scaling In Action
Unlike Kinsta, Convesio offers auto scaling servers that allows your site to scale up resources during high-traffic events, then scale back down when the traffic has subsided.
See how easy it is to set up auto scaling on Convesio.
Any Questions?
We’ve transferred many websites from Kinsta to our platform. Click the chat button below and we’ll happily answer any questions you may have.
Do You Need Business-Quality WordPress Hosting?
When it comes to business-quality WordPress hosting, Convesio stands out as a top choice. Convesio employs advanced container technology to provide unparalleled flexibility and robustness, ensuring your site remains responsive and reliable even during traffic surges. With features like automatic scaling, a user-friendly interface, self-healing technology, and advanced caching, Convesio is designed to optimize performance and minimize downtime. While other hosting providers offer solid services, Convesio’s cutting-edge infrastructure and innovative approach make it the ideal solution for businesses seeking a reliable and scalable hosting service. For those looking to future-proof their WordPress hosting and handle growth seamlessly, Convesio is the clear leader.
KINSTA
- Less PHP Workers
- Disallowed plugins
- No managed scaling
One major concern and complaint of Kinsta users is that they limit the number of PHP workers to only 2 per WordPress site on their Starter and Pro plans. Kinsta does not recommend their Starter and Pro plans for eCommerce businesses, meaning that these plans are mostly for personal websites.
Even then, while their higher level plans do offer more Workers, they’re still much lower than the amount provided by Convesio.
For example, the highest-level Kinsta Business plan comes with 8 PHP workers for a single site, although they also offer (no doubt expensive) custom plans.
CONVESIO
- Full-page caching on Cloudflare for all plans Business level and above
- We don't blacklist plugins
- Managed WordPress scaling
At Convesio, we offer unlimited PHP workers and you’re only limited by your plan’s amount of RAM and CPU.
Workers process scripts on the website and if workers get too busy (because of too many requests or concurrent users) the site will slow to a crawl – until the workers go through their backlog of requests.
This is why Kinsta sites are often slower than other major hosts. Google “Kinsta workers” to see common concerns and complaints.
Similar Pricing, But Different Products
Convesio’s pricing is straightforward and transparent. All plans come with everything you need, including generous storage space, bandwidth, and enterprise software. Plus, we can offer you a free migration to a dedicated server.
Kinsta has many extra fees and limitations on users, bandwidth, and workers. It’s a good idea to do a search on “Kinsta site slowness, downtime, and lack of workers” to understand how their servers are constrained.
KINSTA
- Less PHP Workers
- Premium features cost extra
- Scaling is very expensive
Another benefit to Convesio’s container based strategy is that enterprise grade software is added and included automatically. On Kinsta, these items usually come with additional fees.
Compare that to Convesio, which includes items like Redis ($100/mo), Nginx ($50/mo), Cloudflare Enterprise ($200/mo), Direct Slack Support ($500/mo), Monarx ($75/mo). While Kinsta has lower starting costs, when you add in extras, Kinsta can cost vastly more for the same resources. This makes Convesio a dramatically cheaper Kinsta alternative.
Both Convesio and Kinsta leverage the Google Cloud Platform for the actual equipment and bandwidth. Convesio leverages Premium Tier on all plans Business Level 2 and above. These plans get priority for bandwidth and processing. To get this level of performance on Kinsta, you’ll have to pay for their top enterprise plans.
CONVESIO
- Premium features included
- We don't blacklist plugins
- Managed WordPress scaling
Convesio is an expensive option to those that don’t need scalable infrastructure and we are honest about this. We’re happy to recommend our competitors when there’s a better fit, including Kinsta!
However, Convesio is much more affordable than WP Engine when it comes to scalability.
We’ve productized scaling WordPress and have made it affordable for everyone. You save on set up costs, can get going in minutes and don’t need to engage a SySAdmin for maintenance.
We have also bundled in premium functions that you pay extra on Kinsta.
Key Security Features
When it comes to keeping your site safe, how do Kinsta and Convesio compare?
KINSTA
Some of Kinsta’s key security measures include:
- Automatic backups
- Cloudflare DDoS protection and free SSL
- Two-factor authentication
- SFTP / SSH protocols
- Multilingual support chat
- Isolated software containers
- Highly-rated dashboard
- Staging environment
- Kinsta’s Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tool
CONVESIO
Some of Convesio’s key security measures include:
- Monitoring sites every one minutes for uptime, 1440 times a day.
- Real-time DDoS attack detection and mitigation.
- Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) support, and automatic bans for IPs with rate limiting in effect from Cloudflare.
- A dedicated Security Team to address malicious attackers, hacks, and exploits and will manually clean your site and identify plugins with issues.
- Automated backups for all plans, so you never lose your site or data. We also store two weeks of backups at all times, with the possibility to increase data retention.
- Only support for encrypted SFTP and SSH connections (no FTP).
- Free Cloudflare SSL certificates with wildcard domain support.
- Automatic security checks for every plugin installed to discover vulnerabilities and/or security issues leveraging Patchman and Monarx AI to identify malware and insecurities.
What People Say About Convesio
When You Need Help, Can You Get It?
When it comes to support, both Convesio and Kinsta have top reviews on sites like G2. The main difference is that Convesio gives you direct access to their DevOps and system architect support teams via Slack. Kinsta, on the other hand, has a more traditional support system with chat and tickets – and doesn’t use Slack.
KINSTA
- Supporting a large customer base
- Support is exclusively through their chat program
- No scaling support across the board
Kinsta has a well-rated support system. However, since they are a larger host, this inevitably means that their level of individual support will probably be less.
The chat support system for Kinsta is integrated right into the website’s dashboard. In some scenarios, this is ideal, as it is easy to get help. However, it’s a bit less flexible than Convesio’s strategy of using Slack.
Finally, if your site needs to scale and handle high amounts of traffic in a short period of time, Kinsta can come up short, especially in terms of support. When it comes to scaling container-based server architectures, Kinsta simply doesn’t have the expertise and know-how that Convesio does.
CONVESIO
- More personal support
- Tierless support
- ScaleOps expertise for all clients
With Convesio, you can get WordPress support with a quick turnaround time. Convesio staffs full-time WordPress experts that typically respond to chat messages in 30 seconds. Convesio provides 24/7 chat assistance and access via our Slack channel, which allows us to resolve technical issues without filing tickets or waiting for tier escalation support. Convesio also answers and investigates issues with WordPress that go far beyond simple server questions.
Our support is 24/7, tier-less and goes the extra mile. We promise performance and scale and if this means diving deep into WordPress to resolve an issue we’ll do it.
We’ve adopted Slack as the main internal support channel. You’ll reach support first but any team member, or even multiple people, can jump in to help if needed. It’s not uncommon for our CEO, Tom Fanelli, to lend and a hand either.
Our Promise
Our platform delivers the performance you need at scale. But we also know that there are 100 different things that can go wrong. If they do, support is just one click away - 24/7. We'll do whatever it takes to help. Not upsell you to a more expensive plan.Do You Run a Business-Critical Website?
Kinsta is a solid host and their customers are largely happy with their hosting plans. If your business relies on your website to generate revenue, and you are rapidly scaling, Convesio will provide a higher degree of service and scalability.
- Less PHP Workers
- No scaling out of the box
- No ScaleOps support
- Expensive
- Innovative containers-based solution
- Set up auto scaling in minutes
- Experts in supporting scaling
- Packed with value
It's Easy to Migrate to Convesio from Kinsta
Looking to switch from Kinsta (or another host) to Convesio? Not a problem.
We handle the entire migration process, ensuring that your site doesn’t experience any downtime. You’ll see how easy our platform is to use and how easy it is to work with us, too.
- 7-day free trial
- Free white glove migration
- No down time. No data loss.
It's Easy to Migrate to Convesio from Kinsta
Looking to switch from Kinsta (or another host) to Convesio? Not a problem.
We handle the entire migration process, ensuring that your site doesn’t experience any downtime. You’ll see how easy our platform is to use and how easy it is to work with us, too.
- 7-day free trial
- Free white glove migration
- No down time. No data loss.
