SiteGround vs Kinsta (2024) – WordPress Hosting Compared

Siteground offers some very attractive introductory pricing across all of their plans, and their well priced 'GrowBig' package includes no website limit and quite a lot of features, though you'll need to move to a higher plan if you want to go above 20 GBs of disk space. But keep in mind that their renewal pricing is quite a lot more expensive than their introductory plans. If you have a very large amount of visitors on your site, then even their highest managed wordpress hosting plan might not be suitable to your needs, as it's suitable for up to 400,000 visitors, but they do offer other cloud hosting options that you can consider.

Kinsta is certainly not the most affordable host out there but their pricing scales pretty well based on your website growth. Kinsta uses Cloudflare Enterprise as their CDN. Kinsta supports multisite very well. They are also one of the only Wordpress hosts that will configure GEO-IP rules and caching for your site, which can be great when you need to create complex and localized websites using server-side geo-location.

Monthly Pricing Based on Number of Visitors

We always try to quote the monthly fee for each host not including discounts that might apply if you pay yearly. Siteground's plans includes introductory discounts, and renewals are quite a lot higher, please see their website for more information. Kinsta plan pricing is easy to follow and renews at the same rate.

Prices listed below is the price of our recommended PLAN based on number of visitors for SiteGround and Kinsta. We also may include figures in brackets accounts for overages. Sometimes it's cheaper to use a lower plan with overage fees if your host includes this in their pricing structure, but the performance of the lower plan might not be as strong.

Monthly Pricing Based on Number of Websites

The pricing below shows the closest PLAN based on the amount of websites at both SiteGround and Kinsta. These plans will also include an allowance of disk space and visitors. Some hosting companies allow additional wordpress installs for an extra fee. This can sometimes work out as more affordable than using a higher plan, if it works out as more affordable then we will list these in brackets below

Remember, hosts often include discounts when you pay on a longer basis such as yearly or over multiple years, so make sure to check these offers out if applicable.

Monthly Pricing Based on Disk Space

This is pricing per gigabyte of disk space for both SiteGround and Kinsta. As previously mentioned, if it works out as more affordable to use a cheaper plan and pay overages then we'll list that below in brackets.

Keep in mind that if you have a large amount of disk space usage for your site then you could alternatively host these externally using another service

Comparison Between Main Features

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Hosting Speed

Some managed wordpress hosting companies have an SLA (service level agreement) where they commit to a certain percentage of uptime on a monthly basis. The uptime listed below is a general figure for SiteGround and Kinsta. but it's not necessarily an SLA, see the host's T&Cs for more info. SLAs often include conditions where you get a refund of a portion of monthly fees if the service drops below a certain amount of uptime for that month

Content Delivery Networks are widely distributed networks of servers that can serve your visitors important files such as images and CSS files from a server close by to their location, which can significantly increase your site speed.

Security

Website security is extremely important and all websites should be considered to be at risk. It's important to pick a host that takes security seriously. Below are some of the key security features that are offered by SiteGround and Kinsta.