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- Features<\/li>\n
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Let’s dive in!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n
\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t \t\n\t\t \t\t#WordPress hosting! @Kinsta vs @WPEngine - here's what the data says about these two hosts<\/a>\n\t\t \t<\/div>\n\t\t \t\n\t\t \tClick To Tweet \n\t\t \t\t<\/span>\n\t\t \t<\/a>\n\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\nGo to top<\/a><\/div>\n\u2699\ufe0f Features<\/h2>\n
First up, let\u2019s talk about features. This is particularly important when you\u2019re looking at managed hosting providers<\/a>, since you\u2019ll be paying a premium in return for help in keeping your website running optimally.<\/p>\n
Kinsta<\/h3>\n
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<\/div>\nKinsta offers the following with all of its plans:<\/p>\n
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- A centralized dashboard where you can review and make adjustments to your site(s).<\/li>\n
- Analytics tracking for key metrics, such as number of visitors and bandwidth<\/a> usage.<\/li>\n
- Various security features, including firewalls, SSL support<\/a>, and uptime monitoring.<\/li>\n
- Support for developer tools such as WP-CLI<\/a>, SSH, and Git.<\/li>\n
- A customizable multi-user feature, which lets you give team members specific levels of access.<\/li>\n
- Daily backups of your website (you can also pay extra for more frequent backups)<\/li>\n
- Easy-to-use staging<\/a> options.<\/li>\n
- Free site migrations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
WP Engine<\/h3>\n
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<\/div>\nWP Engine offers the following with all of its plans:<\/p>\n
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- Automatic WordPress updates.<\/li>\n
- Security features including managed threat mitigation and ‘two-factor’ account protection.<\/li>\n
- A page performance tool that enables you to monitor your site\u2019s speed and other key metrics.<\/li>\n
- Free access to the Genesis Framework<\/a>, and 35+ themes built using it.<\/li>\n
- Daily offsite backups.<\/li>\n
- Multiple SSL certificate options.<\/li>\n
- Development and staging sites.<\/li>\n
- Free site migrations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The winner: Kinsta<\/h3>\n
There\u2019s no doubt that both of these providers offer many important features, and each will do a lot to optimize, manage, and protect your site. In addition, they received near-identical scores in our hosting survey<\/a>, where users were asked to reflect on their WordPress-specific options and support.<\/p>\n
Kinsta has a slight edge here, however, thanks to the extra analytics features, developer tools, and a few key security solutions.<\/p>\n
Go to top<\/a><\/div>\n\ud83d\udcc8 Performance – WP Engine was a little faster in our tests<\/h2>\n
Offering a lot of features is important \u2013 but this means nothing if your site runs poorly. Fortunately, both hosting providers do a lot to optimize your site and help it keep up with high levels of traffic. For example, each provider will give you access to a Content Delivery Network (CDN)<\/a>, and offers performance scaling options.<\/p>\n
The question is, do all of those optimizations actually bring results? Let\u2019s look at some data on Kinsta vs WP Engine from our CodeinWP hosting performance survey<\/a>. These are the actual loading speeds we\u2019ve measured using test sites hosted on each provider\u2019s entry-level plan.<\/p>\n
Here’s the performance comparison for the average load time over six months:<\/strong><\/p>\n
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- Various security features, including firewalls, SSL support<\/a>, and uptime monitoring.<\/li>\n
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