WordPress Hosting Comparison
Premium cloud hosting built on Google Cloud — popular with agencies and developers.
Bottom line: Kinsta is a polished product built on Google Cloud. WP Pro Host costs less, runs on dedicated bare metal, and includes more in every plan.
£25/mo
Dedicated bare metal · All features included · No traffic limits
Kinsta
£30/mo
Google Cloud Platform (shared cloud)
| Feature | WP Pro Host | Kinsta |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | £25/mo | £30/mo |
| Infrastructure | Dedicated bare metal | Shared Google Cloud |
| CPU | Dedicated vCPUs | Shared compute |
| Web server | LiteSpeed Enterprise | Nginx |
| Staging environment | ||
| Free migration | ||
| Daily backups | ||
| CDN included | QUIC.cloud | Cloudflare (add-on on lower plans) |
| DDoS protection | Included free | Included |
| Malware scanning & removal | Included free | £0 scanning, removal extra |
| Plugin & theme updates | Included free | Not included |
| Vulnerability patching | Included free | Not included |
| WAF | Included free | Cloudflare add-on |
| Uptime SLA | 99.9% | 99.9% |
| UK-based support | ||
| Published scaling policy | ||
| Traffic overage fees | None | Yes — metered visits |
* Competitor information based on published pricing and feature pages. Prices may vary.
Your resources are not shared. Bare-metal Ryzen 9 7950X3D with dedicated vCPUs, ECC RAM, and NVMe RAID -- not a slice of someone else's cloud.
Over £330/mo of tools are bundled into every plan. CDN, WAF, backups, malware scanning, plugin updates -- no itemised add-on invoices.
Published scaling policy, defined resource allocations, no traffic overage charges. You know exactly what you're paying and what you're getting.
Engineers who understand WordPress, available when UK businesses need them. Not a first-line script-reader in a distant time zone.
WP Pro Host runs LiteSpeed Enterprise on dedicated bare metal — your CPU and RAM are not shared with other customers. Kinsta runs on shared Google Cloud infrastructure. Benchmark results vary by workload, but dedicated resources mean more predictable performance under load.
Yes. Kinsta plans are metered by monthly visits. If you exceed your plan's visitor allowance, you're charged for overage. WP Pro Host has no traffic or visitor limits on any plan.
Both support WooCommerce. WP Pro Host offers a dedicated WooCommerce hosting product with a 99.9% checkout uptime SLA and infrastructure pre-warmed for traffic spikes. See our WooCommerce vs Kinsta comparison for a detailed breakdown.
Kinsta does not include managed plugin and theme updates on most plans. WP Pro Host includes monitored plugin and theme updates with rollback capability on all plans at no extra cost.
Free migration included. We handle DNS, SSL, databases, and content. Average migration completed in under 24 hours.