Kinsta Application and Database Hosting (Invite-Only Beta) - OpenLampTech Report
As of the time of publishing, Kinsta is seeking beta testers by invitation only. Learn more in this OpenLampTech report.
Hi and thank you for reading this newsletter.
I know this email is out of cadence from the typical Friday publishing I normally send out to OpenLampTech readers.
However, I plan on covering more news and reporting-type content specific to the LAMP stack as I move forward with the newsletter (in addition to the curated Friday edition).
Who is Kinsta?
Kinsta is a:
“premium managed WordPress hosting provider.”
Using Google Cloud as its infrastructure base along with knowledgeable WordPress professionals, Kinsta aims to offer the fastest WordPress hosting available.
All at a premium price.
WordPress - The Kinsta Way
Kinsta has WordPress-specific tooling in place, including a deviation from the typical cPanel experience by offering its own MyKinsta dashboard. This makes sense because up until now (apparently) only WordPress solutions were available.
I personally have no WordPress sites hosted with Kinsta at this time, but I have explored (and lightly used) Kinsta’s free DevKinsta local WordPress development environment suite.
I can attest that DevKinsta - available for Windows, Ubuntu, and macOS - is top-notch software so I expect anything Kinsta creates and brands will be just as well received.
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Which Databases and Programming Languages Can You Use?
At the time of writing, Kinsta is listing these languages and databases on the relevant beta documentation page.
Programming Languages:
PHP
Node.js
Rails
Java
Django
Scala
Go
Databases
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MariaDB
Redis
More than just WordPress
It's no surprise that Kinsta is now venturing into the Database and Application hosting services space.
Although I haven't signed up for the beta test, I'm definitely keeping an eye on this slight change in the direction Kinsta is taking. I can only speculate these newer types of services will help Kinsta maintain relevance in an already crowded market.
You can request an invitation here: https://kinsta.com/application-hosting/
Thank you for reading. I hope you have a great rest of your week.
Take care.
Joshua Otwell
Visit my developer blog, Digital Owl’s Prose, where I write regularly on CodeIgniter, PHP, WordPress, and SQL.
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