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  "@type": "Dataset",
  "name": "Kinsta hosting test results",
  "description": "Uptime, response time, load test and support results for Kinsta: HostIdea's own monitoring windows under tests[], and published third-party measurements under thirdParty[], each attributed to its source.",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "creator": {
    "@type": "Organization",
    "name": "HostIdea",
    "url": "https://hostidea.com"
  },
  "measurementTechnique": "https://hostidea.com/methodology",
  "url": "https://hostidea.com/reviews/kinsta",
  "dateModified": "2026-10-14",
  "host": {
    "id": "kinsta",
    "name": "Kinsta",
    "website": "https://kinsta.com/"
  },
  "overallScore": 7.9,
  "scores": {
    "performance": 8,
    "uptime": 8.5,
    "support": 8,
    "features": 8.5,
    "value": 6,
    "easeOfUse": 8.5
  },
  "scoresUpdated": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
  "pricing": {
    "lastVerified": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
    "source": "https://kinsta.com/pricing/"
  },
  "plans": [
    {
      "id": "single-20gb",
      "name": "Single 20GB",
      "type": "managed-wordpress",
      "intro": {
        "amount": 30,
        "currency": "USD"
      },
      "renewal": {
        "amount": 30,
        "currency": "USD"
      },
      "term": "annual",
      "termMonths": 12,
      "websites": 1,
      "storageGb": 10,
      "bandwidth": "20 GB of server bandwidth a month, plus 125 GB of CDN bandwidth",
      "freeDomain": false,
      "freeSsl": true,
      "backups": "Daily automatic backups kept 14 days, plus manual and downloadable backups",
      "moneyBackDays": 30,
      "highlights": [
        "First month free on this plan",
        "$35 a month billed monthly, $30 a month ($350) billed annually, same price at renewal",
        "Extra site $30 a month, extra 20 GB of storage $20 a month",
        "Billing by server bandwidth; the Launch plan is the same price billed by visits"
      ],
      "mailboxes": "None; Kinsta does not host email",
      "terms": [
        {
          "months": 1,
          "intro": {
            "amount": 35,
            "currency": "USD"
          },
          "renewal": {
            "amount": 35,
            "currency": "USD"
          }
        },
        {
          "months": 12,
          "intro": {
            "amount": 30,
            "currency": "USD"
          },
          "renewal": {
            "amount": 30,
            "currency": "USD"
          },
          "total": 350
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "launch",
      "name": "Launch",
      "type": "managed-wordpress",
      "intro": {
        "amount": 30,
        "currency": "USD"
      },
      "renewal": {
        "amount": 30,
        "currency": "USD"
      },
      "term": "annual",
      "termMonths": 12,
      "websites": 1,
      "storageGb": 15,
      "bandwidth": "15 GB of server bandwidth a month and a guidance of 75,000 visits, plus 125 GB of CDN bandwidth",
      "freeDomain": false,
      "freeSsl": true,
      "backups": "Daily automatic backups kept 14 days, plus manual and downloadable backups",
      "moneyBackDays": 30,
      "highlights": [
        "First month free on this plan",
        "$35 a month billed monthly, $30 a month ($350) billed annually, same price at renewal",
        "The visits-billed entry plan; the ladder above it runs to 1,500,000 visits",
        "Extra site $30 a month, extra 20 GB of storage $20 a month"
      ],
      "mailboxes": "None; Kinsta does not host email",
      "terms": [
        {
          "months": 1,
          "intro": {
            "amount": 35,
            "currency": "USD"
          },
          "renewal": {
            "amount": 35,
            "currency": "USD"
          }
        },
        {
          "months": 12,
          "intro": {
            "amount": 30,
            "currency": "USD"
          },
          "renewal": {
            "amount": 30,
            "currency": "USD"
          },
          "total": 350
        }
      ]
    }
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  "thirdParty": [
    {
      "publication": "HostingStep",
      "author": "Mohan Raj",
      "url": "https://hostingstep.com/hosting-reviews/kinsta/",
      "title": "HostingStep, Kinsta review",
      "kind": "independent",
      "updated": "2026-07-22T00:00:00.000Z",
      "accessed": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "plan": "Starter",
      "tool": "Pingdom",
      "checkIntervalSeconds": 60,
      "uptime": [
        {
          "pct": 99.98,
          "windowDays": 243,
          "window": "1 October 2025 to 31 May 2026"
        },
        {
          "pct": 99.97,
          "windowDays": 365,
          "window": "calendar year 2025",
          "outages": 5
        },
        {
          "pct": 99.999,
          "windowDays": 366,
          "window": "calendar year 2024",
          "outages": 1
        }
      ],
      "responseMs": 525,
      "responseNote": "average TTFB from US locations over the eight-month window; 459 ms over 2025, 466 ms over 2024",
      "loadTest": {
        "concurrentUsers": 100,
        "avgResponseMs": 40,
        "errorRatePct": 0
      },
      "notes": "Monitored since 2020 (monitoring hostname and Pingdom check ID published). 149 minutes of downtime in 2025, which the page attributes partly to Cloudflare outages; 3 minutes in 2024. Cached global TTFB 477 ms across 40 cities, 268 ms in the Americas and about 700 ms in Asia Pacific. WPBench hardware score 8.8; the page says the plan runs on Oracle Cloud. Server location not stated."
    },
    {
      "publication": "Kripesh Adwani",
      "author": "Kripesh Adwani",
      "url": "https://kripeshadwani.com/kinsta-review/",
      "title": "Kripesh Adwani, Kinsta review",
      "kind": "independent",
      "updated": "2026-10-06T00:00:00.000Z",
      "accessed": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "plan": "Starter (single site, annual)",
      "location": "Mumbai, India",
      "uptime": [
        {
          "pct": 100,
          "windowDays": 365,
          "window": "last 365 days to September 2026"
        },
        {
          "pct": 100,
          "windowDays": 30,
          "window": "last 30 days"
        }
      ],
      "loadTest": {
        "concurrentUsers": 50,
        "p95Ms": 38,
        "requests": 9729
      },
      "notes": "Monthly table from June 2023 with 99.94 percent in October 2023 as the lowest month shown. Load test: 9,729 requests with one failure, peak 48.33 requests a second. Page load 870 ms from India and 1.29 s from New York. Uptime tool not named on the page."
    },
    {
      "publication": "Cybernews",
      "author": "Nijolė Simaitienė",
      "url": "https://cybernews.com/best-web-hosting/kinsta-review/",
      "title": "Cybernews, Kinsta review",
      "kind": "independent",
      "updated": "2024-12-20T00:00:00.000Z",
      "accessed": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "location": "Dulles, Virginia, US",
      "checkIntervalSeconds": 60,
      "uptime": [
        {
          "pct": 100,
          "windowDays": 14,
          "window": "two weeks of monitoring",
          "outages": 0
        }
      ],
      "responseMs": 461,
      "responseNote": "average response time during the window; probes from London, Mumbai and New York",
      "loadTest": {
        "concurrentUsers": 50,
        "avgResponseMs": 67,
        "errorRatePct": 0
      },
      "lcpMs": 531,
      "notes": "Reachability 99.99 percent. LCP 531 ms on a blank WordPress site and 2,118 ms on a built one; fully loaded time 1.4 s. Plan not stated."
    },
    {
      "publication": "HostScore",
      "url": "https://hostscore.net/review/kinsta/",
      "title": "HostScore, Kinsta review",
      "kind": "aggregate",
      "updated": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "accessed": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "uptime": [],
      "notes": "Overall HostScore 82.2 percent. Cites a 155.40 ms global average response from its own monitoring, which it says ran through 2023 and is no longer active, so the figure is not stored as current. Names the four founders of 2013."
    }
  ],
  "supportTests": [],
  "changelog": [
    {
      "date": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "change": "First version built from verified sources: the pricing page (Business plans billed by server bandwidth or by visits, the Single 20GB and Launch entry plans at $35 monthly or $30 a month billed annually with the first month free, the ladders above them, add-on prices, the compare table), the terms of service (Kinsta Inc., auto-renewal, termination at the end of the period, Delaware law), the service level agreement updated 25 September 2025 (99.9 percent, credit thresholds), the money-back guarantee and guaranteed uptime docs, the data center locations doc updated 2 February 2026 (30 locations), the about page (2013, remote, 128 countries) and the privacy policy (West Hollywood address). Published measurements by HostingStep (eight-month window plus yearly history since 2020), Kripesh Adwani (365 days on Mumbai) and Cybernews (December 2024) are stored in thirdParty[]; HostScore is kept as an aggregate; no WPBeginner review of Kinsta exists. No HostIdea monitoring window is open, so the scores are provisional: uptime rests on three independent windows, performance on a middling US TTFB against strong load handling and edge caching, support on the channels and reviewer accounts, features on staging, backups, CDN and security included, value on $30 a month for one site with 10 GB.",
      "source": "https://kinsta.com/pricing/"
    }
  ]
}