HostingSimple vs Kinsta.
Premium managed WordPress on Google Cloud, with a beautiful dashboard. Real performance — but you pay for it, and you pay again for every overage.
When Kinsta is genuinely
the right pick.
We want you on the right host — even if that's not us. This is when we'd tell you to stay.
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Kinsta is genuinely well-built. If you have one mid-size site, money isn't the constraint, and you love the GCP narrative, it's a defensible pick. If you run 10+ sites or hit visit caps, the math gets brutal fast — but the product itself is solid.
What you'd actually pay,
for your workload.
Drag the sliders to your real numbers. We compute the cheapest plan that fits, including Kinsta's renewal hikes and any overage billing. Honest math — show your accountant.
Your workload
Or pick a scenario below. All math is 36 months total cost of ownership in USD.
Same workload, both hosts.
What it costs, what runs.
Three common workloads, run through the same calculator. Numbers are 3-year sticker cost — no estimates, no hand-waving.
Don't switch from Kinsta
if any of these are true.
We'd rather lose a sale than recommend a bad move. If one of these describes you, save your migration energy for a better moment.
You have one mid-size site and Kinsta's UX is part of your workflow.
MyKinsta is genuinely good. If you're already efficient in it, the time-to-learn-something-new tax is real.
You need their specific Cloudflare Enterprise integration.
If your business runs on Argo / Workers / specific edge config they've tuned, factor that into the move.
You're between $35-115/mo on one site.
The savings versus us are real ($240-$1,000/yr) but not transformative. If the migration energy is better spent elsewhere this quarter, do that first.
The specific differences,
not the marketing.
Six rows. Concrete values. If something looks stale, tell us — we update within 24h.
Pre-migration questions,
answered by an engineer.
Real questions we get during pre-sales calls — answered the way we'd answer them on chat.
Will my site really be faster on you than Kinsta?
Sometimes yes, sometimes no — depends on workload. We don't claim categorical wins on GCP-vs-bare-metal benchmarks. What we can promise: your own instance from WP Studio up, NVMe throughout, and we never throttle you for passing a traffic estimate.
How are you so much cheaper?
Bare-metal in colocation (not GCP), AI ops layer that replaces 80% of human time, no enterprise sales commissions. The savings are real, not a loss-leader.
Can I keep my MyKinsta workflows?
Git-push deploys, staging-to-live promotion, WP-CLI access — all supported. Specific features (APM) live inside our equivalent dashboard; we'll demo before you commit.
What about Kinsta's free hack-fix?
Free malware cleanup on every plan, not just Pro. Same outcome, no tier gate.
Move off Kinsta. We do the heavy lifting.
Send us your Kinsta credentials. A human engineer migrates your site within 24 hours, with zero downtime. Free, every time.