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On occasion I need to host a PHP static website. This is typically while the customer is working on a new WordPress site and simply needs to keep their legacy site live until the new one replaces it. A good…

Over the past 6 months I’ve worked with Kinsta to move over 500+ sites from WP Engine. This will be my official review and recap of that massive switchover. I’ll just begin with a spoiler and say I couldn’t be…

I recently discovered a hidden gem with Kinsta’s SSH environment. They have a built in option for performing a background process using the screen command. Huge thanks for this tip goes to Jeff, one of Kinsta’s support engineers 🙏. Two types of…

Coming from WP Engine, Kinsta PHP options are amazing. Each site with Kinsta can run a wide range of PHP versions from 5.6 to 7.3 beta. That said, with greater control comes additional responsibility. Here are some tips for keeping…

First off I’m a power user. I personally use both Kinsta and WP Engine for hosting my customer’s sites. They are both fantastic companies and have their own pros and cons. The longer I use Kinsta the more I’m realizing…

Kinsta is my preferred WordPress host provider. This year I’ve switched all my new customers to Kinsta. Coming from WP Engine, one feature I miss is a per site git URL which will automatically deploy updates whenever a git push is run…

Kinsta, a relatively new managed WordPress web host, has been consistently rolling out new features. While I’ve been impressed with their improvements, their production to staging deployment is a hassle to work with. Luckily this can be resolved with a…

Kinsta just release a new analytics dashboard which contains a list of the top 30 bandwidth usage files. I thought I’d give it a look over to see if I could make any optimizations. Since all of my Kinsta websites…