Kinsta vs FastComet
Kinsta and FastComet compared on measured uptime, response time, pricing and features from our own tests. Kinsta scores higher overall.
By Jennifer T. · Updated
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Verdict
KinstaWins overall
Managed WordPress hosting from $30 a month with flat renewals, 30 data centers, edge caching and 14-day backups
cPanel hosting on LiteSpeed with 30 daily offsite backups and 12 locations; small disks, now part of World Host Group
Kinsta wins 5 of the six sub-scores and comes out ahead overall (7.9 vs 7.5).
How do the scores compare?
Kinsta leads on 5 sub-scores, FastComet on 1. Higher is better.
Which one is faster and more reliable?
Which one costs less?
On renewal, FastComet is cheaper ($9.95/mo vs $30.00/mo). Intro prices need the listed term.
What does each include?
| Kinsta | FastComet | |
|---|---|---|
| Free domain | No | No |
| Free SSL | Wildcard certificates through Cloudflare on every plan | Yes |
| Backups | Daily automatic backups kept 14 days on the entry plans (20 or 30 days higher up), plus manual, downloadable and hourly add-on backups | Not stated |
| Free migration | Unlimited migrations by Kinsta's team | Website and server migrations by staff |
| Free CDN | Cloudflare CDN with edge caching, 260+ points of presence per the pricing page; 125 GB of CDN bandwidth a month on the entry plans | Not stated |
| Caching | Server-level caching and edge caching through Cloudflare | Not stated |
| Staging | Free one-click staging environments on every plan | Not stated |
| No | Not stated | |
| Resource limits | Each site runs in its own container; plans are sized by server bandwidth or visits, storage and CDN bandwidth, with PHP worker counts in the compare table | Not stated |
| Data center choice | 30 locations chosen per site at creation | Not stated |
| Uptime guarantee | 99.9% per month in the SLA updated 25 September 2025, with credits as a percentage of the monthly value once downtime passes 43 minutes; up to 99.99% on custom plans | 99.9% website availability excluding maintenance; 10% of the monthly fee credited per hour of downtime, up to 100% |
| Security | Fully managed WAF with DDoS protection, bot protection, free malware removal, SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 | Not stated |
| Developer tools | SSH, WP-CLI, Git, DevKinsta local environment, Kinsta API, built-in APM | Not stated |
| Phone support | No | 24/7, +1 855 818 9717 |
| Windows hosting | No | No |
| Daily offsite backups | Not stated | Up to 30 daily backups in a separate data center, unlimited full or incremental restores from the web interface |
| Web server | Not stated | LiteSpeed Enterprise with the LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress, AMD EPYC CPUs, NVMe storage |
| Malware scanner | Not stated | Yes |
| Node.js and SSH | Not stated | Yes |
| Choice of data center | Not stated | Six locations at shared checkout (Dallas, Frankfurt, London, Singapore, Sydney, Mumbai); 12 locations across all products |
| Resource policy | Not stated | No constant utilisation of 80% of plan resources for an hour; 400 emails per hour; 10 simultaneous IMAP/POP3 connections; slow queries under 1% a day |