Kinsta vs. Rocket.net

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Kinsta and Rocket.net compared across Company facts, Pricing, Performance & infrastructure, WordPress management, Support & security and Platform & integrations — every fact sourced and re-verified from each vendor's public material.

Kinsta

Premium managed WordPress hosting on Google Cloud's Premium Tier, focused on speed and developer tooling.

HQ West Hollywood, CA

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Rocket.net

Managed WordPress hosting with Cloudflare Enterprise on every plan, focused on raw speed.

HQ West Palm Beach, FL

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Kinsta

Rocket.net

Company facts

Headquarters

West Hollywood, CA Remote-first company; West Hollywood, CA is the registered US address

West Palm Beach, FL Remote-first; HQ in West Palm Beach, Florida

Employees

225 ~220-230 employees (distributed across 6 continents)

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Pricing

Starting Monthly Price (USD)

$35 Single 20GB plan; $30/mo when billed annually ($350/yr)

$30 Starter plan, billed monthly; 2 months free on annual billing

Entry Plan WordPress Sites

1 sites 1 WordPress install on the Single 20GB entry plan

1 sites Starter plan includes 1 WordPress install

Entry Plan Storage (GB)

10 GB 10 GB disk; entry plan meters bandwidth (20 GB server bandwidth), not visits

10 GB Starter plan includes 10 GB storage

Free Trial Length (Days)

0 days No standard free trial; new accounts get a first-month-free promo and a 30-day money-back guarantee

0 days No free trial; 30-day money-back guarantee instead

Money-Back Guarantee (Days)

30 days 30-day money-back guarantee (first-time customers; excludes one-time fees, overages, dedicated-server fees)

30 days 30-day money-back guarantee

Performance & infrastructure

Underlying Cloud

Google Cloud Google Cloud Platform, Premium Tier network

own datacenters Bare-metal private cloud behind Cloudflare Enterprise (no public hyperscaler)

Datacenter Locations

27 27 Google Cloud data center locations available for site placement

4 Site placement across North America, Europe, Australia, Asia

Free CDN

Cloudflare-powered CDN + edge caching, free on all plans (125 GB CDN bandwidth on entry plan)

Cloudflare Enterprise CDN included on every plan

Web Server

NGINX NGINX-based stack

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Built-in Object Cache

Redis object cache is a paid add-on ($100/mo per site)

Object Cache Pro / Relay are Enterprise-tier only; not default on the Starter plan

Latest PHP Version

8.5 PHP 8.5 generally available (selectable in MyKinsta); 7.4 through 8.5 supported

8.4 PHP up to 8.4 selectable (also 5.6, 7.4, 8.0-8.3)

Free SSL Certificate

Free Cloudflare/Let's Encrypt SSL, auto-provisioned and renewed; wildcard supported

Free SSL included and auto-renewed on all plans

WordPress management

Automatic WordPress Updates

Kinsta does not auto-update WordPress core; automatic plugin/theme updates are a paid add-on ($3/site/mo)

Automated core, plugin, and theme updates

Staging Environments

One free standard staging environment on all plans, with push-to-live (selective file/DB push); premium staging is a paid add-on

One-click staging clone built into the control panel

Automatic Daily Backups

Automatic daily backups with one-click restore; 6-hour/hourly backups are paid add-ons

Automated daily backups on every plan

Backup Retention (Days)

14 days 14 days of daily backups on the entry plan; higher tiers retain 30 days

30 days 30 days of backup retention on the Starter plan

Free Site Migration

Unlimited free expert-handled migrations on all plans

Unlimited free WordPress migrations

SSH & WP-CLI Access

SSH access on all plans; WP-CLI v2 pre-installed on every server. Git supported.

SSH access plus a web-based WP-CLI terminal for all customers

WordPress Multisite Support

Officially supported, but not on the entry plan: requires Single 40GB / Single 65k or higher

WordPress Multisite officially supported at no extra cost

Support & security

Uptime SLA (%)

99.9% 99.9% SLA-backed uptime guarantee (up to 99.99% on custom plans)

99.99% 99.99% uptime guarantee (plus a marketed 100% uptime claim during traffic spikes)

24/7 Support

24/7/365 human expert support via live chat on all plans

24/7/365 expert WordPress support on all plans

Malware Removal / Hack Fix

Free hack-fix / malware removal under the Security Pledge (excludes nulled plugins/themes)

Real-time malware scanning and removal/patching (Imunify360)

WAF / DDoS Protection

Cloudflare-based managed WAF + L3/4/7 DDoS protection, free on all plans

Cloudflare Enterprise WAF + DDoS protection included on every plan

Platform & integrations

Control Panel

custom MyKinsta custom dashboard (no cPanel)

custom Custom-built Rocket.net WordPress Control Panel (Mission Control)

White-Label / Agency Features

White-label WP admin, agency partner program, MyKinsta multi-client/team management

White-label control panel, reseller tiers, WooCommerce client provisioning/billing

Email Hosting Included

No email hosting; Kinsta recommends Google Workspace / Microsoft 365 and helps add MX records

No email hosting; use a dedicated email provider

The verdict

Kinsta

Best for global reach on the newest PHP

Kinsta runs on Google Cloud with 27 datacenter locations for site placement, versus Rocket.net's 4 on its own datacenters, so it wins on geographic spread. It also offers the newer PHP 8.5 (Rocket.net tops out at 8.4). The trade-off: entry pricing starts at $35 vs $30, and WordPress Multisite needs a higher plan.

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Rocket.net

Best for a cheaper, more-inclusive entry plan

Rocket.net's Starter plan is $30 vs Kinsta's $35 and bundles in features Kinsta charges extra for: automatic WordPress core/plugin/theme updates and free Multisite, both add-ons or higher-tier on Kinsta. It also keeps 30 days of backups vs 14 and guarantees 99.99% uptime vs 99.9%. The trade-off: only 4 datacenter locations against Kinsta's 27.

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