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What are Kinsta and Amazon Web Services (AWS)?
Kinsta is an award-winning global hosting company that specializes in managed WordPress web hosting. Kinsta’s service revolves around a team of dedicated customer support professionals and performance-optimized infrastructure. AWS was created in 2006 by Amazon and is an integral component of the Amazon Prime service, with customers including ESPN, Pinterest and Snapchat. Kinsta and AWS are both cloud hosting companies.
The name “Kinsta” refers to the K languages, a family of open source programming languages. The company’s mission is to create a world-class cloud hosting company that goes beyond typical web hosting and focuses on speed and security.
Articles about Kinsta:
GitHub – Kinsta/Kinsta-Hosting
Articles about amazon Web Services:
GitHub – AWS/amazon-web-services
Book about AWS:
https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/amazon-web-services-learn
Book about Kinsta:
https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/kinsta
Articles about Kinsta and Amazon Web Services:
Quotes from Kinsta and AWS:
Kinsta quote: “When you’re running on the cloud, WordPress performance is in the hands of your host. At Kinsta, we’re proud to be able to deliver literally the best WordPress hosting in the world with fully managed services that help you run your sites faster than ever before.” – Anthony Lavelle, Founder and CEO of Kinsta.
How do Kinsta and AWS compare in terms of features, pricing, and performance?
Kinsta and AWS address different markets. AWS is a large-scale, global hosting provider whereas Kinsta focuses on offering the highest-quality WordPress hosting in the industry. Kinsta offers a 99.99% uptime guarantee, with all servers hosted in Google’s cloud infrastructure, ensuring top-of-the-line performance and stability. Kinsta provides users with lightning speed performance and unlimited data transfers. Kinsta also offers customers 24/7 customer support via phone, email and live chat. AWS addresses larger, more general audiences that need a flexible hosting solution at an affordable price. Most Kinsta customers are focused on using WordPress primarily and need a fast, scalable option that can handle their site’s growth.
Kinsta’s hosting platform automatically scales, ensuring users never have to worry about outgrowing their hosting plan. Kinsta offers introductory pricing of $79/month for one year as well as a free trial. This is $20/month cheaper than our next closest competitor during the same time frame.
We need to hear from you!
Kinsta is one of the fastest growing WordPress hosting providers in the industry. We have partnered with PagerDuty to offer a 24/7/365 global support team, which is available by phone, email and live chat. However, it’s not just our support team that makes us different. We are constantly innovating and improving our product for a better user experience.
Kinsta is also trusted by over 100,000 websites and businesses. If you want to share your Kinsta story with the world, we would love to hear from you!
To learn more about Kinsta hosting features, pricing and performance, check out our official website.
Which provider is right for your business or website needs?
If you are looking for a top-quality WordPress hosting solution without having to invest heavily in IT resources, Kinsta is an excellent choice. By utilizing Google Cloud servers and Kinsta’s premium infrastructure, customers can enjoy high performance, up-time and security. If you have the technical capabilities to take advantage of AWS’s cheap rates and flexibility, AWS may be a good option for your business. However, if you already have existing infrastructure or your needs are purely cloud-based, Kinsta may be a better fit.
When you choose a hosting provider, the first thing you need to decide is how much control over your site and its maintenance you want the provider to have. Kinsta takes the highest level of control and ownership possible with our “cloud in a box” solution. You get to choose from one of our three WordPress plans, each of which is tailor-made for specific needs. You also get full control over your servers and the ability to install and run any software you want on them, you can even fully reinstall your WordPress site if you choose.
Pros and cons of using Kinsta or AWS
Kinsta is a superior match for WordPress websites. The company has been hosting WordPress websites since 2011 and has over one million active customers. One of the many benefits of Kinsta is its support staff, which includes a team of specially-trained customer service representatives who are available 24/7 to help with any problems or questions. AWS is an innovative, global provider that appeals to businesses with high volume hosting needs. The AMIs are accessible within minutes and are compatible with the use of multiple cloud services. Additionally, AWS integrates directly with Google Cloud, providing an easier way to migrate from one service to another.
Kinsta offers a faster loading time and better uptime than AWS. The Kinsta dashboard enables users to monitor other tasks such as CPU usage, memory use, bandwidth, and disk space. Each package also offers a dedicated IP address at no extra cost to users. Each package includes a free SSL certificate and a WordPress maintenance plan. Additionally, Kinsta provides real-time updates of the dashboard, allowing users to see how the server is performing in real time. AWS has similar extra features, but they cost extra money.
Final thoughts on Kinsta vs AWS
AWS is very large and successful, but it is not tailored specifically to WordPress, or any other service or website for that matter. If you have a high volume website with unique requirements, AWS may be the best hosting solution for your business.
However, if you have a blog with a handful of posts, or another small website, AWS may not be the best option. You will get what you pay for: if you need smaller hosting that’s more tailored to WordPress, Kinsta may be the way to go.
Another problem using an open source platform like AWS is that your website relies on the developers and engineers there to update their systems. If there is a major WordPress update (e.g., 4.7), it may take a week for the developers to update their systems and, since you are on AWS, it may take them several days to update you. You will be in the dark before your website is updated.
