Pressable Alternative: The Benefits of Choosing Kinsta

Introduction

Pressable is a decent choice for WordPress hosting. It is a managed hosting provider that uses a dedicated server architecture to provide solid performance. 

Kinsta, on the other hand, is powered and recommended by the Google Cloud Platform. Our sophisticated platform includes virtual machines located in 37 global data centers.

Kinsta’s architecture makes it a unique option among WordPress hosting providers. Thanks to Google’s top-of-the-line technologies, Kinsta is able to provide unmatched scalability for each website we host. On top of that, you get access to a team of WordPress experts who take care of all system administration and support tasks for you.

At first glance, Kinsta and Pressable may look similar. However, there are a lot of underlying differences that are worth considering. Every day we hear from frustrated clients looking for a Pressable alternative, and who want to know what makes Kinsta so powerful. That’s what we’ll answer here.

Kinsta is Built for Performance and Scalability

While both Kinsta and Pressable fall into the same category of managed WordPress hosting, their infrastructures couldn’t be more different. 

With Kinsta, you get access to the Google Cloud Platform. We take Google’s virtual machines and configure them to deliver unparalleled WordPress performance. Although you could sign up for Google Cloud directly, our team’s WordPress and sysadmin experience will be hard to match.

Pressable, on the other hand, uses dedicated server infrastructure. While dedicated servers can offer good performance, they are not as scalable as cloud solutions.

With Kinsta, you get access to machines with a lot of CPUs and hundreds of gigabytes of RAM. Matching those specs with a physical server would be a challenge, and in most cases prohibitively expensive.

Finally, Kinsta enables you to choose from over ten standard hosting plans (custom plans not included). However, we don’t ‘hide’ the best features only for the highest-paying clients. Kinsta’s broad selection of plans is all about providing you with plenty of options when it comes to scalability.

With Pressable, you get to choose from four plans that support up to 20 WordPress websites. Kinsta’s plans, on the other hand, enable you to host up to 150 simultaneous WordPress installations or even more if needed.

Starting at just $35 per month, Kinsta plans include all of these technical elements and more. For each site hosted on our platform, we use LXD-managed hosts and LXC software containers. This means that every site has its own isolated container equipped with all the necessary resources, including MySQL, PHP, Linux, and Nginx. 

Kinsta’s scalable infrastructure also enables you to upgrade or downgrade with ease. Plus, we have custom-compiled Linux packages and Nginx rulesets that enable us to maximize the performance of your WordPress sites, as well as more than 30 different software packages and PHP extensions.

With Kinsta, configuration is never a concern. You can launch a new WordPress site quickly and easily directly from your MyKinsta dashboard, and choose from any of our 24 global data centers. 

Kinsta eliminates the need for any caching plugins or add-ons because we use different types of caching systems to reduce server load and accelerate response times.

As part of our Cloudflare integration, Edge Caching saves your Kinsta site/page cache to any of Cloudflare’s global network of 260+ data centers.

Edge Caching is included free with all Kinsta plans and cuts the time needed to serve cached WordPress HTML by an average of more than 50%!

We also understand that uptime is a critical priority, which is why we offer C3D and C2 Google Cloud machines that enable our customers to see major improvements in average response times. In fact, depending on the type of site you’re running, simply switching to Kinsta could result in an immediate speed improvement between 20% and 300%!

I have been transferring a WordPress site to their servers with over 8,000 posts/pages and they have been extraordinary with their help. I am used to only ask for access with my previous host but have to do all of the work myself, and Kinsta goes above just giving me access and actually fixes my issues. It really feels like paying for more than just a hosting platform, but a service/support system that is available 24/7 to help me within minutes. This is amazing!

Bottom line: Using Kinsta as your managed WordPress hosting provider can save you a lot of time and money (not to mention avoid plenty of headaches and frustration).

MyKinsta: A Custom-Built Dashboard for Powerful Site Management

Pressable offers a custom dashboard that gives you access to admin features outside of WordPress. Its dashboard is easy to use, but it’s a bit lacking when it comes to advanced features.

At Kinsta, our mission is to make managing your WordPress site as simple and straightforward as possible. This is why we custom-built our own user portal, MyKinsta, specifically for WordPress site management:

Let’s take a look at some of the powerful features that make our MyKinsta dashboard so useful:

• One-click staging environments, and an option to restore backups to production or staging. Pressable also offers staging functionality, but with a limited number of sites.
• Quick phpMyAdmin access.
• Premium Amazon Route 53 DNS, to manage your DNS records directly in the dashboard. 
• A built-in Cloudflare integration with optimized settings to secure and boost the performance of your site without the need for a separate Cloudflare subscription.
• A free Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tool that logs information about your website’s performance, including PHP processes, database queries, and more. 
• Detailed analytics and insights, including bandwidth and visitor data, performance analysis data, CDN usage and insights, and cache HIT and MISS ratio. 
• One-click CDN setup.
• A search and replace tool to make performing bulk updates easy.
• One-click PHP version switching, and the option to restart PHP when needed. 
• A dashboard tool to purge the site cache.
• Simple redirect management.
• The ability to quickly and easily block IP addresses via the IP Deny tool.
• New Relic integration (license is required)
• Free Cloudflare SSL certificates with support for wildcard domains, and the option to import your own. 
• A WordPress debugging tool.
• Simple password protection for your environment, and the option to strengthen login security by adding your SSH keys to the dashboard. 
• A multilingual dashboard that’s available in 10 languages: English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Swedish, Danish, and Dutch.

You can try out MyKinsta for yourself with our free demo! All you have to do is register for an account, then you can check out the user-friendly interface and explore the various tools to learn for yourself what makes MyKinsta unlike the others!

If you have problematic high traffic sites like us, you’ll love their migration service — they took care of everything and even identified some problem plugins that had been installed by former members of our team. I would have spent hours on the migration due to the size without their help.

At Kinsta, we value our clients’ feedback and are always looking for opportunities to improve. We regularly incorporate the requests and feedback we receive to enhance our offerings. We’re always innovating and exploring new ways to make your website and hosting experience better!

Develop Locally with DevKinsta

For developers and agencies, Kinsta offers a simple to use (but powerful) local development tool called DevKinsta. With DevKinsta, you can launch WordPress sites with a full hosting stack and SSL support on your local computer with just a few clicks.

DevKinsta is fully integrated with MyKinsta and Kinsta’s hosting platform, which means you can develop locally and push updates directly to a staging environment on Kinsta! Pressable doesn’t have an integration with a local WordPress development tool, which means there is no way to clone and push WordPress sites for their customers. If you’re a busy freelance or agency developer, DevKinsta’s advanced features and MyKinsta integration can be a huge time saver.

Optimized for WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads

We’re aware that ecommerce functionality is vital for many businesses, and we know these websites come with particularly challenging and complicated demands. This is why Kinsta is optimized for online stores.

We take care of caching for you at the server level to deliver fast page loading times. Plus, our solution is configured to work out of the box for WordPress, WooCommerce, and Easy Digital Download sites. 

To optimize the speed and performance of your online store, we offer automatic purging of cache and archive pages, as well as:

• Excluding ‘My Account’, checkout, cart, and other pages that shouldn’t be cached
• Ensuring a smooth checkout process by automatically bypassing the cache for users when “woocommerce_items_in_cart” or “edit_items_in_cart” are detected
• Putting specific rules in place to allow EDD and WooCommerce functionality during server-level page caching

Pressable takes a different approach when it comes to ecommerce. The platform offers WooCommerce-specific hosting plans, but to customize it you need add-ons, automatic WordPress installations, and access to Slack support.

Each year, Review Signal conducts a performance test and review for the top hosting companies in the industry. For the past five years, Kinsta has scored top-tier status! Let’s see how the two stacked up against each other in the most recent round in which both participated.

Kinsta is Safe and Secure

When using Pressable, you get access to several standard security features. Kinsta takes both active and passive measures to secure every site hosted with us, regardless of your plan.

Our security features include:

• Monitoring your sites every three minutes for uptime, which equates to 480 daily uptime checks
• Implementing strict software-based restrictions
• Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) support
• A free Cloudflare integration, which includes a secure firewall with built-in DDoS protection.
• Automated backups for all plans
• Isolated LXC containers
• Self-healing PHP
• Only support for encrypted SFTP and SSH connections (no FTP)

With Pressable, you rely a lot on the Jetpack plugin for monitoring and security. With Kinsta, you have real WordPress experts who ensure that your sites are protected at all times.

Kinsta provides premium uptime monitoring for all of your WordPress sites via our in-house developed monitoring system. The status of the sites hosted on our platform is checked every three minutes. In the off-chance that something were to happen to your site, we offer a free 100% hack-fix guarantee. 

If we are notified of an issue with your site, we’ll also contact you immediately.

Static Sites for Free

Are you an agency creating static WordPress sites for your clients? Or do you create landing pages for high-traffic campaigns? We got you covered!

Static site hosting is 100% free at Kinsta. You can create a static or Jamstack site or use a static site generator. We can run the build process for you and deploy your site directly to the edge.

Benefits of hosting Static sites with Kinsta include:

• Your site is directly pushed to our edge network with 260+ locations globally, powered by the security and speed of Cloudflare
• Use a static site generator, and we handle the build process, which is also included free of charge
• Add custom domains, and we deliver the security (SSL certificates automatically issued and updated)

Sign up, connect your git account, and start deploying your static site from your repo.

Turbocharging Your Content Delivery with Kinsta CDN

All Kinsta plans include a free Content Delivery Network (CDN) via our Cloudflare integration. This is a premium HTTP/3-enabled CDN, to deliver your content lightning-fast across the globe.

As part of our Cloudflare integration, our built-in Edge Caching saves your Kinsta site/page cache to any of Cloudflare’s global network of 260+ data centers.

When site visitors load your website in their browser, cached responses will be delivered from the location closest to them. Edge Caching is included free with all Kinsta plans and doesn’t require a separate plugin.

Our content delivery architecture was tailor-made for high throughput and low latency. You can enable Kinsta CDN directly from your MyKinsta dashboard.

With Pressable, you also get access to a global CDN network, which you can enable for your websites through the MyPressable dashboard. However, there are only 28 PoPs available.

Best Affiliate Program in the Industry

Kinsta always goes above and beyond to exceed our clients’ expectations. This is one of the reasons many of our happy customers are often eager to help spread the word about our WordPress hosting solutions. Our drive to satisfy our customers, and their eagerness to share our solutions with others, has helped position us to become one of the fastest-growing hosts in the industry. 

This is part of the reason we’re proud to offer an affiliate program, one of the highest paying in the industry, that provides the opportunity for true profit sharing as well as an effective way to earn a passive income!

As a Kinsta affiliate partner, you can earn as much as $500 (depending on the plan) for every signup referred to us. Additionally, you’ll receive a 10% monthly recurring commission for the lifetime of the customers referred.

Another benefit of our affiliate program is that we use a custom-built dashboard so you won’t ever have to deal with confusing third-party platforms like you would with Pressable. Everything is accessible and straightforward. 

Pressable’s affiliate program is powered by Share-A-Sale. Using its program, you can earn up to $100 per referral.