Post by account_disabled on Dec 26, 2023 16:36:11 GMT 6.5
At Kinsta, we believe that speed and stability are the key features of a great website. Our mission is to offer you top-of-the-line managed WordPress hosting without compromise. That's why today we're announcing a completely new infrastructure powered by Google Cloud Platform . We've brought together PHP 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2, MariaDB , the latest LXD container technology, and development tools like SSH and WP-CLI . We believe we have created the best managed WordPress hosting solution available today. Why We Moved to Google Cloud in 2016 We began planning an infrastructure overhaul in 2015. As we worked with several data center providers, we realized there was plenty of room for improvement, but we were constrained by the limitations these providers placed on us.
After about 6 months, one of our major providers started experiencing Country Email List glitches and outages that caused problems not only for Kinsta, but for other hosting companies as well. What's worse, this has resulted in downtime for our customers, which is unacceptable to us. This strengthened our resolve: looking for a new supplier that could meet our quality standards was the way forward, and we were on the right path. By moving to Google Cloud Platform in 2016, we knew we could ensure a high level of redundancy and have granular control over our servers. This would allow us to modify your hosting environment, making your sites faster, more stable, more secure and completely isolated. In addition, we could have offered you the best of both worlds: isolation and scalability even beyond the best VPS solutions from other providers.
The decision was made: we would move our infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform! A Leap Forward in Hosting Environments All hosting environments consist of two parts: hardware and software. Finding the right hardware was only a matter of time, so we invested thousands upon thousands of development hours to forge the most modern software suite available today. Our two most important tools are LXD and PHP 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2. LXD is a next-generation container hypervisor that allows us to completely isolate not only every account, but every single site. This ensures that no resources are shared and also increases security. PHP 8.1 is the latest version of the server language on which WordPress is based. PHP 8.1 is much faster and more efficient than its predecessor, so much so that in many cases websites display at double the speed. Aside from the speed increase, this makes your site much more stable and conserves resources.
After about 6 months, one of our major providers started experiencing Country Email List glitches and outages that caused problems not only for Kinsta, but for other hosting companies as well. What's worse, this has resulted in downtime for our customers, which is unacceptable to us. This strengthened our resolve: looking for a new supplier that could meet our quality standards was the way forward, and we were on the right path. By moving to Google Cloud Platform in 2016, we knew we could ensure a high level of redundancy and have granular control over our servers. This would allow us to modify your hosting environment, making your sites faster, more stable, more secure and completely isolated. In addition, we could have offered you the best of both worlds: isolation and scalability even beyond the best VPS solutions from other providers.
The decision was made: we would move our infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform! A Leap Forward in Hosting Environments All hosting environments consist of two parts: hardware and software. Finding the right hardware was only a matter of time, so we invested thousands upon thousands of development hours to forge the most modern software suite available today. Our two most important tools are LXD and PHP 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2. LXD is a next-generation container hypervisor that allows us to completely isolate not only every account, but every single site. This ensures that no resources are shared and also increases security. PHP 8.1 is the latest version of the server language on which WordPress is based. PHP 8.1 is much faster and more efficient than its predecessor, so much so that in many cases websites display at double the speed. Aside from the speed increase, this makes your site much more stable and conserves resources.