WPX Hosting Alternative: The Benefits of Choosing Kinsta

How Kinsta Compares to WPX Hosting in a Nutshell

Before we dive into the specifics of Kinsta vs WPX Hosting, we first want to provide a brief breakdown of the key differences.

Kinsta is the first host to be powered exclusively by the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Leveraging Google’s premium-tier network is one of the many ways we’re able to maximize the speed, security, and performance of each site hosted with us.
We’re also the highest-rated managed WordPress host on G2, the world’s leading software review and comparison site:

Enjoy a 20% Faster Website Simply by Moving From WPX Hosting to Kinsta

We measured 3,200+ migrations over the course of a three-month span. On average, client sites experienced 20% faster load times just by moving to Kinsta.

How is this possible? Our customers enjoy:

• The latest generation of virtual machines from Google’s Compute Engine general-purpose machine family C3D VMs and The fastest Compute-Optimized C2 VMs, available across all plans in supported regions.
• A stack that’s been fine-tuned for WordPress over the past 8 years.
• Google’s Premium Tier Network to deliver website data faster.
• Free CDN powered by Cloudflare’s global network of 260+ locations.
• Built-in Edge Caching that cuts the time needed to serve cached WordPress HTML by an average of more than 50%!

Migrate from WPX Hosting to Kinsta hassle free with our free expert migration service. With our 30-day money-back guarantee, you can test out the service and improved speeds completely risk-free. You only lose if you don’t give this a try!

Some additional differences between Kinsta vs WPX Hosting include:

• Kinsta is a leading WordPress hosting provider, as well as the recommended managed WordPress host by Google Cloud. We offer all-in-one solutions for managing your website with simple, affordable plans. With over 10 options, we make it easy to find one that meets your specific needs, from Starter to Enterprise. WPX Hosting only has three plans, all geared towards small publishers. It’s not equipped to handle dynamic and enterprise-level sites.
• Kinsta uses Google Cloud’s premium global tier network and Google’s latest generation of virtual machines (C3D), which are the most expensive and fastest machines. Both are available for all customers, starting at only $35 per month. This kind of powerful and reliable cloud computing isn’t accessible with WPX Hosting’s infrastructure.
• Kinsta has a massive global presence that consists of 37 data centers (and counting) worldwide. WPX Hosting only has three data center locations.
• Kinsta’s platform, tools, and features are all built with developers in mind, and give you unrestricted access to your site’s files (regardless of your plan). Unlike WPX Hosting, Kinsta gives you access to WP-CLI, SSH, and Git, as well as support for Nginx reverse proxy.
• Kinsta plans allow for New Relic integration (license required), as well as support for Redis and SSD add-ons. WPX Hosting doesn’t offer support for New Relic or Redis. 
• Kinsta plans include everything you need to maximize site performance and security, including a premium DNS, daily 480 times uptime monitoring, IP Geolocation, and a secure Cloudflare firewall with free DDoS protection. While WPX Hosting offers standard security features such as malware scanning and DDoS protection, it doesn’t offer much beyond that for safeguarding your site and server.
• Kinsta includes a free Content Delivery Network (CDN) on all plans. WPX Hosting’s WPX CloudCDN has only 25 end-point locations, as compared to Kinsta’s 34.
• Kinsta is SOC2 compliant, which provides independent proof that we have established security procedures and adhered to those procedures over time. WPX Hosting is not SOC2 compliant. See Kinsta’s Trust Report for additional information.
• Kinsta offers six different types of backups with every plan, including automatic/daily, optional hourly, manual, system generated, downloadable, and automatic external backups sent to your Amazon S3 or Google Cloud storage. You’ll also get automatic weekly database optimizations. WPX Hosting offers just two types of backups. 
• Kinsta provides free, one-click staging environments that don’t count towards your total disk space. WPX Hosting staging environments take up a ‘slot’ in the total sites included with your plan. 
• Kinsta offers free, human-performed migrations. Our superior support team gives you access to over 120 WordPress experts at your fingertips. Unlike WPX, we also offer multilingual 24/7 support.
• All Kinsta plans come with a 99.9% uptime guarantee, as compared to WPX’s 99.5% guarantee. 
• Kinsta’s custom MyKinsta dashboard comes with a plethora of tools and one-click features, including a PHP switcher, debugging tool, ionCube loader, and more.
• Kinsta’s platform is optimized for WooCommerce. WPX doesn’t offer WooCommerce-specific hosting, nor does it provide the advanced caching mechanisms needed to maximize the speed and performance of online stores.

MyKinsta: A Custom-Built Dashboard for Powerful Site Management

At Kinsta, managing your WordPress site couldn’t get any easier. We custom-built our own user portal, the MyKinsta dashboard, specifically for WordPress site management:

WPX Hosting also has a custom dashboard. However, it’s not as user-friendly or feature-rich as ours. Let’s take a look at some of the powerful features that make our MyKinsta dashboard so beneficial, some of which aren’t included with WPX Hosting plans:

• One-click staging environments, and an option to restore backups to production or staging.
• 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.
• Detailed analytics and insights such as bandwidth and visitor data, CDN usage and insights, performance analysis data, and cache HIT and MISS ratio. 
• Free, one-click CDN setup. 
• A WordPress debugging tool.
• A search and replace tool to perform bulk updates with ease.
• One-click PHP version switching, as well as the option to restart PHP when needed.
• Automatic MySQL database optimizations.
• A dashboard tool to purge the site cache.
• A one-click ionCube enabler
• Free, one-click Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates, and the option to import your own. 
• Simple password protection for your environment, with the option to add your SSH keys to the dashboard to strengthen security. 
• A multilingual dashboard that’s available in 10 languages: English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Swedish, Danish, and Dutch.

We value our clients’ feedback and are always striving to be better. This is why we regularly seek out opportunities to improve, and consider the requests and feedback we get from clients to enhance our offerings. If something can make your site or hosting experience even better, we want to hear about it!

Web Performance Benchmarks (Business Plans)

To perform these benchmark tests, Review Signal created identical WordPress dummy websites with the same plugins installed (the exception being any tools required for each provider’s specific caching mechanisms).

The WebPageTest.org test measured the overall loading time (in seconds) in 11 different geographical locations. Let’s take a look at the results:

As you can see, Kinsta outperformed WPX Hosting in 7 out of these 11 tests.

UptimeRobot and StatusCake were used to perform uptime tests. Both providers had a perfect uptime:

During the Load Impact test, which was used to assess the caching system’s performance on each site, Kinsta didn’t experienced any errors:

The Load Storm tests were used to simulate real users visiting each site:

Kinsta showed faster response times and significantly fewer errors when compared to WPX Hosting.

Free Performance Monitoring Tool

WordPress is a dynamic CMS, which means it’s constantly executing PHP code in the background. Depending on your theme and plugin configuration, it’s possible for your site to get bogged down with bloated and inefficient code.

That’s where APM (Application Performance Monitoring) tools can help. An APM monitors requests to your site, and tracks various metrics like external API requests, database queries, PHP execution time, and more. This information allows you to quickly debug and troubleshoot performance bottlenecks.

All Kinsta plans come with a free custom-built APM tool that can be easily accessed right in the MyKinsta dashboard. Kinsta APM provides you with key WordPress performance insights without the need for expensive third-party subscriptions to other APM services.

With Kinsta APM, you can debug the following and more:

• Slow WordPress plugins and themes.
• Long calls to external APIs and domains.
• Unoptimized MySQL database queries.

WPX Hosting plans do not come with a free APM tool, which makes it very difficult to quickly troubleshoot performance issues on your WordPress site.

Kinsta Has a Global Presence

Another advantage of using Kinsta vs WPX Hosting as your managed WordPress provider is our massive global footprint. We have 37 data centers (and counting) around the globe, which span five continents.

Our data center locations include:

Our many locations make it easy for you to pick a different server option for each of your WordPress sites. Plus, there are no hidden fees or extra charges!

This is a much different experience than you could expect with WPX Hosting. That provider only offers three data center locations, which are in Chicago, London, and Sydney.

Turbocharging Your Content Delivery with Kinsta CDN

Kinsta includes a free CDN with every plan, which you can easily enable for your sites from the MyKinsta dashboard. Unlike WPX Hosting, all of our plans also include free bandwidth.

KinstaCDN is a free HTTP/3-enabled Content Delivery Network (CDN). Our content delivery architecture is optimized for high throughput and low latency.

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.

WPX Hosting uses its own WPX Cloud CDN, which offers fewer end-point locations. There are also bandwidth limitations that, if exceeded, put you at risk of suspension.

Best Affiliate Program in the Industry

Kinsta always strives to exceed our clients’ expectations. Our happy customers are eager to spread the word about our managed WordPress hosting solutions, which has helped us become one of the fastest-growing hosts in the industry. 

It’s also one of the reasons we provide one of the highest-paying affiliate programs you can find. Our affiliate program gives you the opportunity to share in our profits and earn a passive income!

As a Kinsta affiliate partner, you can earn as much as $500 for every signup you refer to us, depending on the plan. Plus, you’ll receive a 10% monthly recurring commission for the lifetime of the referred customer. Kinsta customers have an impressively low churn rate, so it’s a powerful way to earn a passive income.

We always aim to make things simple and straightforward for our affiliates. This is why we use a custom WordPress hosting affiliate dashboard, to prevent you from having to deal with complex third-party platforms. 

WPX Hosting also has an affiliate program. However, the tiers and commission structure can be confusing, so it’s difficult to know upfront how much you’d be able to make.