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Leaving Kinsta
Kinsta is one of the better managed-WordPress hosts. Genuinely fast, technically solid, well-supported. It's also $420–840/year for one site. If that site has stopped changing, you're paying premium prices for static content.
10-year cost projection
What Kinsta actually is
Premium managed WordPress on Google Cloud, with strong technical chops.
Pricing: Plans start at $35/mo (Starter, one site) and climb. Most small-business sites are on Starter or Pro ($70/mo).
Kinsta's pitch is performance and infrastructure quality. That's a fair pitch for a site under active development. For a brochure site, performance is solved by any decent CDN — and Cloudflare's CDN is included free with our service.
Kinsta migrations are easy because Kinsta runs vanilla WordPress without unusual customizations. We render and capture, and the result is identical to what your visitors see today, just without the recurring fee.
What they do well
- Real performance, not just marketing
- Strong technical support
- Clean WordPress without proprietary lock-in
Why people leave
- Price
- The realization that 'managed WordPress' is solving problems they don't have anymore
- Bandwidth-based billing on sites that occasionally get scraped
What you keep when leaving
- Every URL
- Every page
- SEO history
- Domain ownership
What you lose leaving
- wp-admin
- WordPress plugin compatibility
- Kinsta's developer-friendly tooling (irrelevant for static sites)
Our take
Kinsta is what you want when WordPress is actively load-bearing. It's overkill when WordPress is just the engine that draws static pages.
Questions
Does Kinsta's caching matter once we're on static?
No. Static HTML on Cloudflare's edge is cached at every PoP globally — equivalent to Kinsta's edge caching, but for free.
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