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The 30th anniversary of Bandai Namco’s acclaimed role-playing game (RPG) series, Tales of, has been going quite smoothly.

Review info

Platform reviewed: PS5
Available on: PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, PC
Release date: February 26, 2026

With titles like Tales of Xillia and Tales of Graces f getting the remaster treatment, newcomers can experience the series’ rich past on recent consoles. The latest arrival is Tales of Berseria Remastered, an updated game which originally released in 2016 and marked a new direction for the series in more ways than one.

Its drama, charm, and thrill hit just as hard as they did back then, making it an apt title worthy of remastering.

Leaning on the edge

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Despite being a prequel to Tales of Zestiria, the game takes on a rather different tone. Following Velvet Crowe, a hellbent half-human half-Daemon, as well as a ragtag team of misfits, you’ll travel the many islands of Midgand to hunt and kill those who wronged you. The game is a revenge story through and through.

Here, those darker elements are on full display, with monstrous beings, death, and wanton destruction around every corner. It can be a bit overbearing, especially if coming off titles like Xillia or Graces f, but it still keeps that signature charm.

Best bit

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The combat here works extremely well, as it evolves the LMBS system into a more open action experience. Being able to move around freely and customize your moves makes a world of difference and gets you more involved. Plus, letting you switch between characters more easily gives you more room to explore gameplay styles.

As a newcomer, it was very surprising just how well a darker tone fits the Tales series. Usually one for bright colors and adventure over adversity, Berseria highlights a much more twisted tale, not straying away from killing or violence.

Even still, the cast of characters, like the tactful Eizen to the ever-frustrating-yet-lovable Magilou, bring levity to situations, albeit with underlying brooding beneath it. The party does rank among the franchise’s best, as the chemistry and dynamic mesh extremely well, both feeling like a well-oiled machine and separate entities all their own.

While returning fans know the story beats, newcomers will enjoy the direction the story takes and the journey they’ll go on. It can be a bit heavy with its edgy themes, but underneath it all is a tale of trust, family, and emotion. The many twists and turns will get you on the edge of your seat and are paced out quite well, so there are rarely any dull moments.

One of the highlights for me was a surprising one: the performances from the game’s cast. With the material being as deep as it is, the cast does a fantastic job. Much praise goes to lead Christina Vee, who brings the broken Velvet to life with finesse and grace. Other standouts include Erika Lindbeck’s hilarious Magilou, Benjamin Diskin’s adventurous Rokurou, and Taliesin Jaffe’s determined Eizen.

In open waters

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Fortunately for fans of long RPGs, Berseria Remastered has got you covered. With its story taking roughly 35-45 hours, not counting grinding or side missions, it covers a lot of ground. Lots of that time is spent exploring the many regions, fighting enemies, and diving into its intense story. Luckily, it’s time well spent, as what’s on display is entertaining and gripping, especially the skits towards the middle and end of the title.

Like Tales of Arise, the game allows you to walk freely on the battlefield, not restricted to a single line like past titles. The Linear Motion Battle System (LMBS) is still present, as when you attack, you run towards the highlighted opponent. However, you can walk around and avoid attacks more easily. As someone who enjoys that style, Berseria’s combat was a joy to play and explore. Crafting attack sequences with simple button presses also allows you to string some great combos for you and your party.

As always, the Tales series excels in crafting intricate landscapes, with Berseria doing just that. Many of the regions, like Loegres and Maclir Beach, look incredible and showcase the game’s great artistic direction. Plus, with Motoi Sakuraba’s impeccable score (much love to Velvet’s Theme), the world comes to life beautifully.

Smooth sailing

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Despite Berseria being released in 2016, the many quality-of-life improvements this remaster brings help it shine much brighter. Many of the additions go to the game’s map, which is more maneuverable thanks to better movement speed and easy-to-find guide markers. Autosave and quick save are also lifesavers when a save point is nowhere to be found.

Graphically speaking, the updated framerate and fidelity really make some of Berseria’s landscapes and cutscenes shine. It can still feel like a mid-budget 2016 game, with blocky textures or unvaried backdrops, but when it shows its creativity it looks great. Bringing in a lot more polish than Xillia, characters and battles look and feel great to interact with.

Unfortunately, character customization, especially with skills and upgrades, feels bare-bones and inflexible. Compared to Xillia’s Lillium Orb or even Arise’s upgrade system, there’s not much wiggle room to craft characters the way you’d like to. While characters are well-tuned to combat, with some more magic-based and others physical-based, it does feel like it can go deeper.

In short, Tales of Berseria Remastered took risks that, since 2016, have paid off, and we see that with this remaster. From open combat to a mature tone, it wasn’t afraid to go in a different direction. While it isn’t perfectly done, seeing it in a new light thanks to the remaster is a great way to see the versatility of the franchise and what may hold the key to future installments.

Should I play Tales of Berseria Remastered?Play it if...

You love a good revenge story
Vengeance is a dish best served cold, and Tales of Berseria Remastered does so with style. The rage and determination Velvet has are all on display, and it fuels every inch of the narrative. Fortunately, it’s a plot you can get behind and one not afraid to make you question things.

You enjoy your RPGs with long stories
A long RPG isn’t rare, but when you have it done as Berseria does, it’s a blessing. Its vast open world and gripping storytelling keep you on the edge of your seat the whole time.

Don't play it if...

You’re looking for something more light-hearted
While Tales of Berseria Remastered has some nice and fun moments, it does tend to lean towards mature subjects like death and killing. It’s not overt most of the time, but it relies a lot on focusing on the dark side of humanity and religion.

Accessibility features

Much like other remasters in the series, there are a few accessibility functions to adjust and tune, like difficulty. You can customize your playthrough via button mapping and the addition of map markers, as well as switching between English and Japanese audio at any time. Despite that, the lack of colorblind modes is a bit disappointing.

How I reviewed Tales of Berseria Remastered

I played Tales of Berseria Remastered for around 40 hours, finishing the main story with some side content. I also explored many of the islands and beat some of the optional bosses.

There is multiplayer available for battles, although I did not test it out for the review. I played the game on a base PS5 with the DualSense Wireless Controller and HyperX Cloud 3 wired gaming headset, all on a Roku 4K TV. If you played the recent Tales of remasters like Xillia and Graces f, you’ll find a lot of similarities in the upgrades here.

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GetResponse was founded in 1998 by an entrepreneur named Simon Grabowski, making it one of the oldest email marketing software in existence. For reference, Google was founded in that same year and popular apps like FaceBook and Instagram didn’t even exist back then. 

The company formed out of Grabowski's need to send emails to multiple subscribers and started as Bizmaker, later renamed Implix, and again, GetResponse. By 2003, the company employed 6 people and by 2010 employed 100 people. In 2012, the company released mobile apps for iOS and Android, which helped boost its popularity. 

Today, GetResponse has grown well beyond basic email marketing into a capable all-in-one platform, with solid automation, a website builder, and a growing suite of AI tools. It's especially well-suited to small businesses and content creators who want multiple marketing channels under one roof. Pricing scales up quickly once you need advanced features, but there's genuine value at every tier.

(Image credit: GetResponse)GetResponse: Plans and pricing

Plan

Starting Rate (Billed Annually)

Starting Rate (Billed Monthly)

Free

$0/month/1000 contacts

$0/month/1000 contacts

Starter

$15.58/month/1000 contacts

$19/month/1000 contacts

Marketer

$48.38/month/1000 contacts

$59/month/1000 contacts

Creator

$56.58/month/1000 contacts

$69/month/1000 contacts

MAX

Custom pricing

Custom pricing

GetResponse offers a free plan alongside three paid tiers — Starter, Marketer, and Creator, plus an enterprise-level offering called MAX. All plans are scaled by contact list size, with options ranging from 1,000 up to 100,000 contacts.

The Free plan supports up to 500 contacts and allows 2,500 newsletter sends per month. It includes a basic website builder, signup forms, and limited landing pages (capped at 1,000 unique visitors per month). Emails sent from the free plan carry GetResponse branding, which you can only remove by upgrading. You also get a 14-day free trial of all premium features when you first sign up.

The Starter plan starts at $19/month (billed monthly) for up to 1,000 contacts, with unlimited email sends, autoresponders, AI email generation tools, and unlimited landing pages. It's a strong entry point for solo marketers and small businesses getting their feet wet with automation.

The Marketer plan, starting at $59/month for 1,000 contacts, is where GetResponse's full automation power becomes accessible. You get advanced event-based workflows, contact scoring, web push notifications, ecommerce integrations, and multi-user access for up to three team members.

The Creator plan starts at $69/month and is aimed at content creators and online sellers. It adds webinars for up to 100 attendees, an AI course builder, paid newsletters, and support for up to five users — all on top of everything in the Marketer plan.

For larger businesses, GetResponse MAX (enterprise) offers dedicated support, SMS marketing, single sign-on, unlimited users, and transactional email. Pricing is custom and requires contacting the sales team directly.

You can save 18% by paying annually for a 12-month plan, or 30% by committing to 24 months.

(Image credit: GetResponse)How does GetResponse use AI?

GetResponse has integrated AI tools across several areas of its platform, making it one of the more AI-forward options in the email marketing space. The most prominent is its AI email generator, which can produce both copy and design in one go.

Rather than starting from a blank canvas, you describe your campaign and it drafts a complete email with layout, images, and text included. We found the AI a useful starting point, even if you'll want to refine the output before sending.

But the AI Campaign Generator goes a step further. Give it a business description and a goal, and it can spin up a full marketing funnel, including landing pages, email sequences, and calls to action. It's not a magic button, but for marketers short on time or ideas, it meaningfully speeds up the setup process.

For ecommerce users, GetResponse offers AI-powered product recommendations that analyze each customer's browsing history, preferences, and purchase behavior to surface relevant products automatically in both emails and on your website. It's worth noting this feature is only available on the MAX plan however, putting it out of reach for most users on standard tiers.

Content creators on the Creator plan also get access to the AI Course Wizard, which can transform your existing content like blog posts, documents, and other materials into a structured online course in roughly 30 minutes. There's also an AI website builder that generates a personalized website for you to customize.

Across the board, AI in GetResponse is practical and production-focused rather than experimental, which feels like the right fit for its core audience.

GetResponse: Features

GetResponse has grown far beyond a straightforward email tool. Today it bundles email marketing, marketing automation, landing pages, a full website builder, webinar hosting, sales funnels, ecommerce integrations, and an AI course creator into a single platform. For a solo entrepreneur or small team, that kind of consolidation is a genuine time-saver.

The email marketing toolkit remains a standout. You get a drag-and-drop email editor, a library of hundreds of responsive templates, unlimited autoresponders on all paid plans, and a range of segmentation options to personalize your messaging. Automation workflows let you build branching sequences triggered by user behavior, purchases, link clicks, or custom tags.

GetResponse also earns points from us for its conversion funnel tools. Unlike most email platforms, it ships with pre-built funnel templates for lead magnets, product launches, and webinars, tying landing pages, emails, and checkout flows into a single system. Webinar hosting for up to 100 attendees (Creator plan) is still a relatively rare feature in this price range.

The platform's integrations cover popular ecommerce and CRM tools, including Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, Stripe, and PayPal, with Zapier extending the reach to thousands of third-party apps. The one notable gap for power users is the absence of a full-featured CRM with pipeline management, though. GetResponse handles contact scoring and segmentation well, but it's not a replacement for a CRM.

(Image credit: GetResponse)GetResponse: Interface and in use

Getting started with GetResponse involves simply creating a new account by entering your name, email address and a new password. Complete a short questionnaire about your marketing goals and land in the main dashboard — no credit card required for a free account. New users also unlock a 14-day trial of all premium features, giving you time to explore the full platform before committing to a paid plan.

The dashboard itself is clean and easy to navigate, with a left-side menu that lets you jump between modules divided into campaigns, automations, landing pages, and more. The drag-and-drop email editor is the centerpiece: you can add blocks, preview on mobile, and test links without having to leave the editor.

There's a slight learning curve if you want to build complex automations, but the visual workflow builder helps considerably. But one design choice worth flagging: some advanced features like the full automation builder or webinar tools are tucked away in plan-gated areas, which means you might not discover them until you upgrade.

GetResponse: Support

GetResponse offers support through live chat and email, and both channels are accessible to free and paid users alike. Chat is available in English during extended hours (7 AM–11 PM on weekdays and 7 AM–9 PM on weekends, GMT+1), with a 24/7 chatbot covering off-hours queries. Email support is available round the clock in English, Polish, German, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian for an international user base.

There's no phone support, which remains a notable omission, especially for users running time-sensitive campaigns. That said, GetResponse's Help Center is well-stocked with guides, tutorials, and API documentation covering most common scenarios. Live webinars run regularly and often include hands-on demos for platform features, which we find more useful than static documentation for complex tasks like automation setup.

MAX plan subscribers get an elevated support experience: a dedicated Customer Experience Manager who acts as a single point of contact, familiar with your business and marketing goals. For enterprise users managing large lists or complex workflows, that kind of personalized support is a meaningful differentiator.

GetResponse: The competition

An industry leader in the email marketing space, but that doesn’t mean that GetResponse is the right option for all. 

Constant Contact remains a popular competitor, which is quite ideal for those needing a simple, beginner-friendly platform without being overwhelmed with a ton of advanced features. Prices start at a competitive $12 per month, with the email marketing tools complemented by the platform’s excellent landing page builder. 

Another option worth considering is MailChimp. For over two decades, it has been providing industry-leading email marketing solutions, with its service continuing to improve every year. It has an excellent “free forever” plan with streamlined integrations such as a creative assistant, marketing CRM, and a website builder.

GetResponse: Final verdict

Putting this all together, there’s plenty of reasons that GetResponse gets lauded as the number-one email marketing platform worldwide. This is because it is affordable, offers a great free trial, and has excellent customer service. 

The drag-and-drop email builder is great for novices, while still remaining a powerful option for creating highly customized emails. The free forever plan is also worth mentioning for a smaller business just starting out. 

The bottom line is that if you’re looking for a competitively priced email marketing program that’s backed by a suite of other tools, GetResponse easily makes it to the short list of contenders worth looking at. 

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If you feel it is time to upgrade your shared hosting to one of the best VPS providers, Bluehost looks like a good place to start. With its managed VPS offering, you potentially get the benefit of the performance boost that comes with a VPS without the headache of supporting the website software yourself.

To find out if Bluehost’s managed VPS option is as attractive as it looks, we’ve evaluated it, comparing the plans and pricing options, the server infrastructure, and features. We also assessed performance of Bluehost VPS hosting with benchmark tools, and spent some time with its site building tools, which are aimed at anyone launching a small business website.

How does a managed VPS differ?

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A Virtual Private Server plan typically comes in two flavors: managed, and self-managed. The former means the host will provide assistance with issues such as setup or implementing updates of security software, while the latter leaves everything up to you.

If you have experience of managing web servers on a day-to-day basis, the self-managed option is probably more appropriate. For everyone else, a managed VPS is the smart alternative, particularly if you’re scaling up from shared or cloud hosting.

NOTE: Bluehost offers self-managed VPS and managed VPS plans. These are closely positioned on the site’s menu, so be careful which one you select!

Bluehost plans and pricing

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Three managed VPS plans are available from Bluehost: Standard NVMe 4, Enhanced NVMe 8, and Ultimate NVMe 16. Each plan is more expensive than the previous, with a growing server hardware spec. The names relate to the spec – for example, Standard NVMe 4 reflects a server with 4GB RAM. All servers have virtual CPU cores (as expected with a VPS) and NVMe storage.

Plans are available as a monthly rolling deal, or for 12 or 36 months with appropriate discounts. These plans come with free cPanel (depending on selected term), and Let’s Encrypt SSL is included. A premium SSL certificate is available, but at extra cost, as is Sitelock security. Unmetered bandwidth, and two dedicated IPs are included in the price, and all plans have a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Building a website with Bluehost

Creating a website means first manually attaching the domain with the hosting, something that may seem unfamiliar if you're used to shared hosting, as it doesn't typically require customer input.

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Two options are available for building a website. You can install WordPress and use the included WP builder, or employ Sitejet. This is a cPanel-based solution that is useful for a quick start, but (certainly based on its implementation at Bluehost) results in somewhat generic sites. However, the website editor offers good control over the layout, and compared with WordPress, Sitejet is a simpler solution for quickly creating an attractive website for your business.

Speed and performance

We installed a WordPress site on our Bluehost VPS and ran a couple of benchmarking tests, first with WordPress Benchmark (a plugin you can install in WordPress) and then with YABS (Yet Another Bench Script).

WordPress

CPU & Memory

Operations with large text data

7.87

Random binary data operations

9.15

Recursive mathematical calculations

8.92

Iterative mathematical calculations

10

Floating point operations

9

Filesystem

Filesystem write ability

8.54

Local file copy and access speed

8.77

Small file IO test

9.95

Database

Importing large amount of data to database

8.44

Simple queries on a single table

10

Complex database queries on multiple tables

10

Object cache

Persistent object cache enabled

0

WordPress core

Shortcode processing

8.19

WordPress Hooks

10

WordPress option manipulation

9.84

REGEX string processing

8.92

Taxonomy benchmark

9.8

Object capability benchmark

9.78

Content filtering

5.7

JSON manipulations

10

Network

Network download speed test

10

Overall

8.8

Bluehost support for VPS customers

Various support options are available, from a dedicated telephone team to live chat. There is also an AI-powered chatbot, although I found this didn’t provide accurate information regarding Bluehost’s VPS plans.

I ran into some problems with the hosting. The instructions for this did not match what I was seeing, so I spoke to a support assistant (following a brief and fruitless chat with the BLU chatbot, which left a lot to be desired when I asked it about setting up a website, too). Unfortunately, the agent seemed too concerned with delivering cookie cutter answers than delivering a swift answer to my specific concerns.

Bluehost also provides a searchable knowledge base and a free WordPress course in conjunction with Yoast, the SEO company that is part of “the Bluehost family.”

Final verdict

Bluehost’s features and helpful customer support make its Managed VPS plans extremely attractive. I’ve used VPS hosting several times over the years, and seen it evolve from the self-managed options to the state where more hosting companies offer managed options.

Meanwhile, the testing demonstrates that Bluehost’s Managed VPS is ideal for WordPress hosting. While there is a considerable difference in price between the two options, its Managed VPS is priced as a logical progression from its higher performance WordPress shared hosting for their business. That makes it a smart option for anyone looking for first-time VPS hosting.

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When it comes to best web hosting and website management, there is no shortage of options. The vast majority of companies out there offer affordable services that are good enough to get the job done. For us, Kinsta is the standout choice for agency hosting.

Kinsta is a cloud-based hosting solution providing services for WordPress websites. They provide access to high-performance servers and features such as staging environments, automatic backups, enterprise-level Cloudflare integration, and more.

Kinsta also includes quality security features such as DDoS protection, SSL certificate with wildcard support, and malware scanning and removal.

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From the main website, you can access Kinsta’s official blog. It’s easy on the eye and filled with a myriad of articles, most of which are related to WordPress and software development. In addition to this, Kinsta offers a fresh and video-packed YouTube channel and relatively active presence on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

(Image credit: Future)Kinsta features

Kinsta offers high-end CPUs, as well as global availability, thanks to its infrastructure built on a powerful cloud network. By using these top-of-the-line CPUs, you are guaranteed that your website will be up and running faster than ever before.

To further improve your website's speed, Kinsta also offers a global content delivery network with over 300 locations worldwide. This allows Kinsta to deliver fast pages and serve cached assets from your visitors’ closest location.

Kinsta also comes with built-in application performance monitoring (APM), a custom-designed tool specifically for WordPress sites. We used this feature to identify potential issues or bottlenecks slowing our site during our hosting service test.

Kinsta's DevKinsta feature provides a comprehensive development environment that makes it easy to develop applications locally on your computer. DevKinsta includes many helpful features, such as version control that allows developers to roll back to previous versions of their code if needed, easy debugging with Xdebug integration, and deployments to production servers with just one click.

With the new Kinsta Cloudflare integration, we leveraged a wildcard SSL certificate to secure our subdomains with a single certificate. A wildcard SSL certificate secures both a root domain and its subdomains. This contrasts with other certificate types, which require listing each subdomain on the certificate.

As part of its Cloudflare integration, Kinsta offers customers a unique benefit - reserved IP addresses. Reserved IPs are unique IP addresses assigned to each Kinsta customer site. These IP addresses are reserved exclusively for that customer and ensure that other sites on Cloudflare's network will not share the DNS A-record IP address. In some cases, this can cause problems if a service blocks a spam site that shares the same Cloudflare IP address as your site.

We were also impressed by the Kinsta Brotli Compression Tool (a lossless compression format supported by all major browsers that achieves higher compression ratios than gzip).

Kinsta also released a tool called Edge Caching. This is an incredibly powerful tool for WordPress websites that can significantly reduce the time it takes to serve cached HTML to site visitors. Edge Caching is included free with all Kinsta plans, and no additional plugins are required.

Kinsta’s Edge Caching works by saving your website/page cache to Cloudflare’s global network of over 260 data centers. When site visitors load your website, cached responses are delivered from the location closest to them, helping reduce latency and improve loading times.

With the help of the Early Hints, you can further enhance site speed. Early hints is a modern web standard that defines a new 103 HTTP status code. Enabling this web standard on your site gives your site visitors’ browsers the chance to download certain resources in advance or in parallel with others. This results in faster page rendering.

A curiosity of Kinsta’s hosting, but one that we found made sense, is the apparent lack of a temporary URL for checking that the site runs accurately. However, this feature can be easily turned on and off and lasts around 60 minutes when enabled. Given that a site doesn’t need to be seen by the public or crawlers before launch, this is useful.

For web hosting services in Australia, Kinsta CDN is available in six Australian cities, namely Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth, and Sydney.

(Image credit: Future)Is Kinsta easy to use? 

We find Kinsta easy to use - from signing up to navigating through the dashboard. The web host provides you with an intuitive dashboard that makes hosting your website easy. The dashboard let us quickly access all the features and settings in one place, which makes it simple to manage our website’s performance and security.

With Kinsta, you can set up and manage multiple websites from one account. Kinsta also has a number of helpful features that make managing your website easier. All these features are designed so that even those who aren’t tech-savvy can easily manage their website without too much hassle.

As a fully managed WordPress hosting provider, Kinsta's prices are higher than other web hosts (Image credit: Future)Kinsta plans and pricing

Kinsta offers plans ranging from $35/month to $ 1,700/month. All plans include free wildcard SSL, CDN, staging, and unlimited migrations. Kinsta offers two pricing models for its plans: visit-based and bandwidth-based. In visit-based plans, the plan is defined by the monthly sum of unique IP addresses seen each 24-hour period. While bandwidth-based plans are defined by the amount of data in gigabytes (does not include content served by CDN and Edge Cache, and does not count bandwidth used by staging sites)

But what do you get when you purchase one of these plans? The Single plan starts at $35/month and includes 1 WordPress site, 10 GB of storage, 125 GB of free CDN, and 35,000 visits per month or 20 GB server bandwidth. The Single plans scale with each step up, providing more site visits or server bandwidth, storage, and CDN bandwidth. Each Single site plan denotes the support amount of visits or bandwidth . The plans go up to 1,250,000+ visits or 500GB+ server bandwidth, 15 GB+ storage, and 1,000 GB CDN bandwidth.

Multiple-site plans support multiple WordPress installs. Each plan name denotes the number of WordPress installs supported. Each multiple-site plan supports multisite network and site cloning. For WP 2 ($70/mo), you get 2 WordPress installs, 70,000 visits or 40 GB server bandwidth, 250 GB of CDN bandwidth, and 20 GB of storage. As the plans increase in price, so do the resources, site visits, and number of WordPress installs. The WP 40 plan ($450/mo) supports 40 WordPress installs, 60 GB of storage, 1,500 GB of CDN, and 75,000 monthly visits or 500 GB server bandwidth.

Kinsta also offers an Enterprise Plan for multiple sites, which starts at $675/month and includes 60+ WordPress installs, 100+ GB of space, 1,250,000+ visits or 750GB+ server bandwidth, and a 30-day backup retention.

All the above plans come with unlimited free migrations and a 30-day money-back guarantee, so if you are not satisfied with the service, you can request a refund. Select plans on Single and Multiple-site tiers also include a one-month free trial.

Agency Hosting

Kinsta’s Agency program is targeted, price-wise, at established digital agencies. The Agency 20 plan ($284/month with annual billing), which we tested, offers support for 20 WordPress installs, so potentially 20 clients. It also includes an extra site, for your agency. 500,000 visits or 250GB server bandwidth , 50GB of storage, and 1,000GB CDN storage make this an attractive starting point, but Agency 40 ($375/month with annual billing) and Agency 60 ($563/month under the same terms) are also available, with corresponding increases in installs.

These plans also include white labelling and access to beta tools. Backups, advanced caching, and migrations are also included with these packages, along with that all-important developer support. Several tools are available here, from easy site cloning to Git integration and access to the Kinsta API.

Kinsta speed and experience

Kinsta argues that users will almost certainly see “faster page load times, along with back-end (WordPress dashboard) speed” when hosting with them. Faster than what, we asked ourselves. Faster than the average speed, faster than lightning, or faster than Superman?

In any case, we ran tests on Kinsta's Single plan and Agency 20. One test was to create a benchmark of core WordPress performance metrics, and the other was to measure their performance under load.

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WordPress benchmark test

Single Site

Agency

CPU & Memory

Operations with large text data

6.68

6.62

Random binary data operations

8.27

8.22

Recursive mathematical calculations

7.32

7.3

Iterative mathematical calculations

8.62

8.54

Filesystem

Filesystem write ability

9.74

9.41

Local file copy and access speed

9.61

9.42

Small file IO test

10

10

Database

Importing large amount of data to database

9.18

8.92

Simple queries on single table

9.92

9.79

Complex database queries on multiple tables

8.63

7.94

Object Cache

Persistent object cache enabled

0

0

Network

Network download speed test

10

10

Overall

Your server score

8.2

8

Kinsta performed well on its core benchmarks and maintained these scores across both its Single and Agency plans. We noted especially high scores in file and database performance, which bodes well for WordPress sites, especially those with high transaction rates, such as eCommerce stores, membership-based sites, or large-scale enterprise websites.

Siege test (Single Site Plan)

Concurrent visitors

5

9

15

Transactions

9954

6681

2025

Availability

99.67

99.2

100

Elapsed time

299.9

299.17

299.33

Data transactions

32.69

24.17

7.32

Response time

0.16

0.38

2.21

Transaction rate

30.19

22.33

6.77

Throughput

0.11

0.08

0.02

Concurrency

4.87

8.51

14.93

Successful transactions

9054

6681

2025

Failed transactions

30

54

0

Longest transaction

2.25

2.36

2.39

Shortest transaction

0.13

0.13

1.15

Siege test (Agency Plan)

Concurrent visitors

5

9

15

Transactions

8484

13580

3846

Availability

96.37

96.36

94.94

Elapsed time

299.43

299.19

299.3

Data transactions

91.72

145.90

42.4

Response time

0.17

0.18

0.18

Transaction rate

28.33

45.39

12.85

Throughput

0.31

0.49

0.14

Concurrency

4.87

8.11

2.32

Successful transactions

8164

13068

3846

Failed transactions

320

513

205

Longest transaction

1.33

39.76

0.08

Shortest transaction

0.09

0.08

0.11

Under increasing load, Kinsta was a mixed bag in performance. However, we noted that although some transactions failed, Kinsta's servers seemed to handle load balancing well. That means its servers should be well-optimized to ensure that your website visitors encounter more or less similar experiences, rather than facing wildly varying transaction times. This is highly crucial to high-performance websites and not something you fix on your own.

Kinsta security

Kinsta is one provider that offers quality security measures (in our opinion), including SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificates. An SSL certificate is a type of digital certificate that provides encryption and authentication for data sent over the internet. It helps protect user information, such as credit card numbers and passwords, from unauthorized access by malicious third parties.

More essentially, sites at Kinsta are containerized. That means everything required to run your site is within your container, including the entire tech stack. This isolation means that as long as you can secure your website, nothing else that's happening to other sites on Kinsta can affect you.

Kinsta uses Cloudflare's infrastructure to provide wildcard SSL certificates with 128-bit or higher encryption as well as 2048-bit RSA keys. Kinsta says its servers are also constantly monitored 24/7 for any signs of suspicious activity or hacking, which is good to know. Kinsta also offers a 99.9% SLA-backed uptime guarantee.

There's also a Malware Security Pledge in which Kinsta's dedicated Malware team will help restore a site in the event of an attack. The team monitors all sites, and its services are free for all Kinsta customers.

Customer support

You'll find plenty of how-to guides in Kinsta's knowledgebase (Image credit: Future)

Kinsta offers knowledgeable sales representatives who can help you find the hosting plan that best fits your website or project.

If you want a deeper dive into all of Kinsta’s features, consider scheduling a personalized demo with one of its experts. This is an excellent way to get familiar with Kinsta's powerful dashboard and hosting features, as well as ask any questions that come up during the process.

We had a few questions about our website and contacted Kinsta through its question form on the website. They got back to us the next day with answers tailored specifically to our hosting dilemma.

Kinsta’s support team is available 24/7/365 via live chat in the MyKinsta dashboard, so you can quickly get help. You can also open tickets here if you ever have any issues with your site. Additionally, Kinsta has beefed up localization in its customer support by making help available in 10 languages.

As noted, we also tried Kinsta’s Agency 20 plan, arranging for a site to be migrated via a backup. The support operative who took ownership of this task completed it within a couple of hours, a timescale that included not just scanning the ZIP file for potential issues, but also fully migrating it and testing the site.

We later ran into an issue trying to point a domain at the hosting. This requires a bit more clicking and settings configuration than with other hosts (switching nameservers is just one aspect of this), but while I found this baffling at first, the support team member who walked me through it helped me solve it within 15 minutes.

Kinsta also offers free webinars to its customers (Image credit: Future)

There are more than a few self-help options including regularly updated documentation, free e-books, free webinars, a newsletter and a blog we mentioned before, and everything is dedicated to bringing knowledge about WordPress to its users. In addition to this, Kinsta’s YouTube channel is filled with step-by-step guides and the new ones are coming out on a week-to-week basis at the very least.

As an alternative, you can reach Kinsta’s “timely and knowledgeable” support via email and chat.

Kinsta alternatives

Much like Kinsta, Flywheel is a fellow US-based host specialized in “top-of-the-line” managed WordPress hosting solutions. Both of them strive to be beginner-friendly, offer well-rounded, feature-packed packages and are on the high-priced side of the spectrum. However, Kinsta’s least expensive solution starts at a whopping $30, half as much as what is offered by Flywheel. Therefore, if the price is the key criterion (since both hosts are competent) for you, you could save some bucks by going with Flywheel.

Bluehost is one of the most popular hosting options on the market today, even when it comes to managed WordPress hosting. In comparison with Kinsta, Bluehost has a myriad of hosting types and options besides WordPress and its WordPress plans are well-structured and suitable for newcomers. If you are, however, looking for premium managed WordPress options, you might find yourself at home with Kinsta.

DreamHost is a US-based provider supplying WordPress-optimized hosting solutions and related services, including a domain registration, which is something you won’t get with Kinsta. Another thing they don’t provide is a website builder and you’ll have that as an option with DreamHost. What is more, in addition to offering more hosting options, DreamHost has more pocket-friendly plans, so you’ll save some money as well.

Although HostGator does not specialize in WordPress hosting, it has a few rather attractive solutions on the offer. Nonetheless, if you are looking for a premium fully managed WordPress hosting (and you are ready to shell out the money) Kinsta might be a better pick. If you would rather have something simpler and more on the affordable side, HostGator is an excellent choice.

WP Engine is also a great alternative as it offers a wide range of services, from shared hosting to managed WordPress hosting and dedicated servers. WP Engine is known for its fast speeds and reliable uptime, as well as its excellent customer service and support team.

SiteGround is another great option if you’re looking for an alternative to Kinsta. This provider offers a variety of hosting plans that range from shared hosting to VPS and cloud solutions. SiteGround also has excellent customer service and support, which makes it a great choice if you need help getting started or have questions about how to use their services.

Is Kinsta right for you? 

Kinsta offers a range of features to help businesses get up and running quickly and easily, including easy scalability, managed updates, automated daily backups, and 24/7 support.

Kinsta offers a range of features to help businesses get up and running quickly and easily, including automatic scaling, managed updates, automated daily backups,SSH access, WP CLI, a powerful API, Application Performance Monitoring, and 24/7/365 support in 10 languages, with a response time within a minute and 98% client satisfaction.

Kinsta also prides itself on its performance and reliability - It’s caching technology ensures websites load faster than ever before; this helps keep visitors on your site longer which can lead to increased conversions.

Kinsta FAQsIs Kinsta only for WordPress?

Kinsta is mainly known for managed WordPress hosting but also offers other types of hosting including static and database hosting

Do I need a security plugin with Kinsta?

Technically, you don't need a security plugin at Kisnta. Their servers are robust, and they have proactive monitoring and malware removal services. However, we prefer to err on the side of caution and advise you to assess your site's security requirements in case you need anything beyond what Kinsta covers.

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