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Why host your WordPress membership site at Kinsta?
Membership sites are beasts when it comes to performance. Large numbers of concurrent visitors, uncacheable content, complex database queries, and data like user profiles, forum threads, images, and videos, can affect your site’s performance, in turn impacting your members’ user experience.
That’s why it’s essential you choose a membership site hosting provider that understands your site’s resource-intensive needs.
At Kinsta, we know membership sites are different from other kinds of WordPress sites because we wrote the book article about it: The Dos and Don’ts for Hosting WordPress Membership Sites . See how Kinsta can help:
Performance-focused web hosting
We obsess over speed, reliability, and availability. That’s why we were the first managed WordPress host to partner exclusively with Google Cloud Platform. We use GCP’s premium tier global network and compute-optimized C2 servers. Choose from 29 different data centers around the globe and serve content closer to your members for decreased latency and TTFB. All of our plans include resource isolation, a scalable infrastructure, and WordPress-specific optimizations for high-performance membership site hosting.
PHP 8 performance boost
For many WordPress membership sites, switching to the latest version of PHP provides an instant performance boost. Our latest PHP performance benchmarks show PHP 8.0 offers a significant performance over PHP 7. For sites that require PHP 7, we offer one-click PHP 7.4 and 7.3 support in MyKinsta.
Object caching
Membership sites are dynamic and always changing. Object cache, on the other hand, can provide considerable performance improvements, reducing the load on your database and speeding up PHP execution times. We offer Redis as an add-on so you can take full advantage of persistent object caching, helping to speed up the user experience for your members.
Analytics
We’ve seen first-hand that WordPress, membership sites typically generate a lot of 404 errors. With our MyKinsta analytics tool, you can determine how many 404 errors your site is generating and then create a simple 404 template that avoids querying the database any more than is necessary. You can try MyKinsta analytics for free via our free dashboard demo .
PHP workers
One of the biggest challenges with WordPress membership sites is large numbers of uncached requests. PHP workers determine how many simultaneous database requests your site can handle at a given time. If you continuously max out your PHP workers, the queue will start to push out older requests, resulting in 500 errors. A set number of PHP workers is included with every Kinsta hosting plan. We recommend starting with one of our Business plans for a minimum of four PHP workers. If you’re not sure how many PHP workers your WordPress membership site needs, read our guide: PHP worker recommendations for membership sites . Or, chat to our sales team to find out more.
Database maintenance and optimization
Regular database maintenance is essential for the health of any WordPress membership site. Without it, you might find that over time, your site slows to a crawl. To help combat dips in database performance, our platform will automatically fine tune your MySQL database settings based on the needs of your membership website. Our hosting plans also include weekly automatic database optimization. If our automated system detects something wrong that it can’t fix, our sysadmin team is notified.
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Let our migration team do all the heavy lifting
Moving a WordPress membership site requires experts who can solve unexpected issues along the way. Our migration experts will take care of the process, saving you time and money. We approach your site’s move as if it were our own, leveraging years of hosting and WordPress experience to get your site up and running just like it was before your move.
All our plans include free migrations
Fill out our site migration request form to get started
We keep you updated once your migration has started
Schedule your move for a time that suits you
Let our team handle all the complexities
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Kinsta has been invaluable for our membership website at anglaiscours.fr. It is robust, fast and very reliable. Our website has a few plugins that can take quite a bit of resources, such as an LMS, quizzes, page builder, membership plugin, affiliate plugin, lead generation plugin etc. Despite all of these heavy plugins and the fact that we have hundreds of thousands visitors/month, our website loads fast and works perfectly for our users.One of the best thing about Kinsta is the support. Anytime we have an issue (which is not often), we always get an answer in a matter of minutes. By the way we use MemberPress as our membership plugin, and it works great with Kinsta.
Alban de Larrard from AnglaisCours Club
WordPress membership site hosting tools you need
PHP version switching
Set different versions of PHP for your live site and staging environment, and easily switch engines in one-click.
New Relic
License required to run New Relic
Redis
Use Redis to store values generated by WordPress’ native object cache in a persistent manner so cached objects can be reused between page loads.
Extra disk space
Images, videos, profile information, and discussions — data adds up fast! Add extra disk space to your plan in the MyKinsta dashboard for more storage when you need it.
Two-factor authentication
Access authenticator-based two factor authentication in the MyKinsta dashboard that doesn’t rely on mobile phones and can be used with popular password managers like 1Password and LastPass.
Staging enviroment
Speed up your development workflow with one-click staging for testing and fine-tuning before pushing new pages and features live.
Backups
Get six different types of automatic and manual backups, including hourly and six-hourly backup add-ons — essential for WordPress membership site with dynamic content.
MyKinsta dashboard
We built MyKinsta specifically for WordPress, so you’ll find all the WordPress-specific membership website hosting tools you need to create and move sites, configure for speed and security, view analytics, access 24/7 live chat support, and more. You can try the MyKinsta Demo for free!
Here for you. Around the clock.
Chat to one of our support engineers in real-time and get expert help with your WordPress membership site, whether it’s 2am or 2pm. Our team covers every time zone, working around the clock to assist customers in over 120 countries.