For a fee ($49 USD), you can now request an expedited migration. We’ll get your site moved to Kinsta’s Managed WordPress Hosting platform within eight hours or refund that fee.

As with all our migrations, we can perform an expedited migration using a backup of your current site or the connection details of your account at another hosting provider.

How to request an expedited migration

All migrations begin the same way in the MyKinsta dashboard: navigate to WordPress sites and click the Request migration button:

The next dialog asks you to choose a timeframe for your site transfer. If you’ve migrated sites at Kinsta before, you will recognize these two free options:

• As soon as possible
• On a specific date

If you select As soon as possible, we might migrate your site the same day, but we can’t guarantee that. On a specific date is an option that allows you to perform any preparation your site needs to be ready for the migration. That could be taking your site offline or stopping processes that might write to the database during the transfer window.

Clicking the Expedited Migration in 8 hours panel will highlight the paid option in green:

Below the timeframe options, you’ll see some help specific to your selection. When you are ready to proceed, scroll to the bottom of the page and click the Next button:

The next step is to specify a migration source and then proceed as explained in our Kinsta Migration documentation:

How we manage expedited migrations

We aim to fulfill all requests for expedited migrations within eight hours between 9 a.m. and 11 p.m. UTC, Monday to Friday.

Complex site requirements, slow transfer speeds from your current provider, or sites larger than 10GB can extend the migration time. If that happens, we will keep you updated. And if we don’t complete the task in eight hours, your migration will be free.

Why migrate to Kinsta?

Whether they choose our free or expedited migration service, operators of WordPress sites see significant improvements in performance after going live on Kinsta’s platform, backed by Google’s low-latency Premium Tier network, a blazingly fast CDN, edge caching, early hints, and built-in image optimization.

Explore our hosting packages and find one that’s just right for your organization.

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Customers who need just a little more elbow room in their current plan might find it cost-effective to use the new WordPress sites add-on to increase their plan’s site quota for just $30 USD per site a month. For many, that will be less than the cost of moving all the way to the next-higher hosting plan.

How to use the WordPress sites add-on

This add-on works at the Company level within the MyKinsta dashboard. Start by navigating to username > Company settings > My Plan. On the My Plan page, click the Enable button on the WordPress sites card:

Next, you can specify the number of sites you want to add to your current plan:

When to use the WordPress sites add-on

We recommend reviewing our Managed WordPress Hosting Pricing page to determine whether adding sites to your current plan is more cost-effective than upgrading the plan itself.

It’s important to note that adding a site to your current plan does not increase plan-wide resources such as limits on visits, CDN usage, and disk space (although you can increase the disk space available to your plan separately).

The WordPress analytics page within Company settings can help you determine if your current plan usage leaves room for more sites:

The analytics report above shows that this company has maxed out its WordPress site quota but probably has plenty of resources available to accommodate more using the site add-on.

Adding up Kinsta’s WordPress add-ons

In addition to the disk space add-on that works plan-wide, Kinsta offers several site-specific add-ons so that you can equip your WordPress environments with exactly the resources you need. Those add-ons support:

• Premium staging environments
• PHP memory limits
• Reverse proxies
• Redis caching
• Hourly and six-hour backups
• External backups

If you are not already a Kinsta customer and are not sure which WordPress hosting plan might be right for you, just contact our sales team.

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Redis, the in-memory NoSQL database, provides robust storage for the WordPress native object cache, helping to reduce the need for repetitive and resource-intensive database queries. It’s popular with operators of websites like online stores and membership destinations where page caching of personalized content is an obstacle.

Kinsta has long offered Redis among our add-on solutions for WordPress hosting. However, until now, customers were asked to contact our Support team to have Redis installed and configured in their environments.

Customers can now install, configure, and remove Redis in their accounts with a few clicks in the MyKinsta dashboard.

Adding Redis to a WordPress site

Installing Redis for your WordPress site is simple:

• Navigate to WordPress sites > sitename > Add-ons in MyKinsta.
• Scroll to the Redis caching card.
• Click the Enable button:

• You’ll be asked to confirm your choice to install Redis:

Plugin support for Redis in WordPress

When you add Redis to a site in MyKinsta, we automatically install and configure the Redis Object Cache plugin, connecting your WordPress site to the cache:

If you click on the Settings link for Redis Object Cache, you will see that the plugin is already configured and connected to your instance of Redis:

There are numerous plugins available to connect WordPress sites and Redis. If you prefer to use a plugin other than Redis Object Cache, you can do that by disabling or deleting the Kinsta-installed plugin and adding one you choose.

Removing Redis from a WordPress site

Removing Redis from your account is just as easy as installing it:

• Navigate to WordPress sites > sitename > Add-ons in MyKinsta.
• Scroll to the Redis caching card.
• Click the Disable button.
• You’ll be asked to confirm your request:

You’re in control of caching at Kinsta

In addition to Redis caching on the backend of WordPress websites, Kinsta also provides powerful on-server page caching and Cloudflare-powered Edge Caching and CDN. And all those tools can be managed on the Caching page in MyKinsta. (And, yes, you can also begin the install or uninstall of Redis from that area of the dashboard.)

What’s more, the Kinsta MU (Must Use) plugin offers cache management within the WordPress admin dashboard. Members of a publishing team who might not have access to MyKinsta can clear server-side caches, CDN, and edge caches within WordPress.

If you’re not already a Kinsta customer and want to take advantage of these powerful tools for your WordPress site, find a hosting plan that’s right for you.

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