Hostway (Ntirety) vs. Kinsta

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Hostway (Ntirety)
Score 1.0 out of 10
N/A
Hostway headquartered in Austin provides what they describe as 24/7/365 support and cost-effective, secure, multi-tenant, and dedicated hosting environments for SMBs and large enterprises. Hostway and HOSTING merged in January 2019 to grow their managed cloud services platforms. The company also operates under the name Ntirety. Hostway specializes in managed Wordpress hosting, but also offers basic starter web hosting and IaaS services, via its virtual private servers.N/A
Kinsta
Score 9.4 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Kinsta offers WordPress hosting with daily backups, Cloudflare integration, and 24/7 human-only support available in 10 languages. Boasting users among more than 120,000 businesses in over 128 countries, Kinsta helps to keep sites running smoothly wherever they're accessed and is SOC 2 audited and ISO 27001 certified to meet rigorous standards for security and data protection.
$7
per month 0.3 CPU, 0.3GB RAM
Pricing
Hostway (Ntirety)Kinsta
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
WordPress Hosting - Starter
$35
per month 1 WordPress install, 25,000 monthly visits, 10 GB SSD storage
Application Hosting - Hobby
Starting at $7
per month 0.3 CPU, 0.3GB RAM
Application Hosting - Standard
Starting at $20
per month 0.5 CPU, 1GB RAM
Application Hosting - Memory Optimized
Starting at $35
per month 0.5 CPU, 2GB RAM
Application Hosting - CPU Optimized
Starting at $36
per month 1 CPU, 1GB RAM
Database Hosting
Starting at $18
per month Starting at 0.25 CPU, 256MB RAM, and 1GB Storage
WordPress Hosting - Business
Starting at $115
per month 5 WordPress installs, 100,000+ monthly visits, 30+ GB SSD storage
WordPress Hosting - Agency
Starting at $340
per month 20+ WordPress installs, 400,000 monthly visits, 50+ GB SSD storage
WordPress Hosting - Enterprise
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per month 60+ WordPress installs, 1,000,000+ monthly visits, 100+ GB SSD storage
Static Site Hosting
Free
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Hostway (Ntirety)Kinsta
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Hostway (Ntirety)Kinsta
Considered Both Products
Hostway (Ntirety)
Chose Hostway (Ntirety)
For the ease of storing and managing Terabytes of data
Kinsta
Chose Kinsta
Whilst SiteGround can be cheaper, it uses a lower-tier Google Cloud server infrastructure for hosting compared to Kinsta. SiteGround's support is inferior (it used to be very good) and the new SiteGround UI is not as easy to use or as intuitive as Kinsta. SiteGround also does …
Chose Kinsta
GoDaddy is the one that drove me nuts. Downtime, poor performance, abysmal customer service. I switched to Kinsta because they looked like they’d do right everything GoDaddy did wrong (and they have). Hostinger is a company whose services I still use and am pleased with them. …
Chose Kinsta
We previously used Inmotion Hosting and found their performance, which initially was good, fell away over the years.
Chose Kinsta
Kinsta is the best. There are no alternatives that compare. Someone inside of Kinsta is actually running business development to improve the experience from the bottom position up to the top. There is literally no comparison.
Chose Kinsta
GoDaddy is absolute trash compared to Kinsta Hosting. GoDaddy is the classic case of great marketing, poor service, and even poorer value. I feel bad any time I find a client or someone else using a service like GoDaddy instead of a premium product like Kinsta. The price …
Chose Kinsta
There is no comparison between Just Host and Kinsta. It's like going from driving a junky old sluggish car to driving a brand new fully-loaded race car. Kinsta is so much better, in every way imaginable. Now that I'm with Kinsta, I see the difference and I'll go back to cheap …
Chose Kinsta
The performance of our sites on Kinsta has been an enormous improvement over our prior hosting solution. Also, the admin tools (and the UI that supports it) are far superior.
Chose Kinsta
Both of these two competitors provide different options in terms of comparison to Kinsta. EasyWP is a cheaper option but I have found with shared hosting that our company has spent way more time debugging strange issues b/c of the limitations of shared hosting. We are either …
Chose Kinsta
Our other websites are hosted on a variety of services. The majority are on an onsite host in Texas. The rest are distributed between Linode and DigitalOcean. The nice things about our onsite host and Linode and DigitalOcean is that we have complete control over our servers, …
Chose Kinsta
From a pricing standpoint, Kinsta is a deal that we haven't found can be beat. They are always innovating and adding features to their service, they aren't as inflexible and rigid as many hosted services are. Kinsta often reaches out for feedback, feature requests and including …
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User Ratings
Hostway (Ntirety)Kinsta
Likelihood to Recommend
1.0
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8.8
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Likelihood to Renew
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10.0
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Usability
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10.0
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Availability
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10.0
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Performance
-
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10.0
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Support Rating
-
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10.0
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Implementation Rating
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10.0
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Configurability
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8.0
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Ease of integration
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9.0
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Product Scalability
-
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9.0
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User Testimonials
Hostway (Ntirety)Kinsta
Likelihood to Recommend
In my opinion, the entire company has room for improvement. We were locked out for more than a year and nobody took care of us and finally we had to move out.
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Kinsta is perfect if you host with WordPress, which means the team there totally understands every aspect of the CMS and they even suggested changes to the way we host subdomains I hadn’t thought of before. As far as I know, they don’t offer hosting for non-Wordpress websites.
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Pros
  • Sending unnecessary emails in my opinion
  • I feel they sent unhelpful stuff
  • Not providing access to the facility
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  • Developer friendly; WP-CLI; SSH access
  • Amazing support - I never have to wait more than a minute or two to get a response!
  • Kinsta is also willing to troubleshoot issues that are not their own. They don't just say "It's not our problem" without helping to debug the issue.
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Cons
  • customer service
  • reliability
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  • The ability to restore database only or files only (selection) from a backup
  • Only single staging environments are offered and it would be good to have multiple
  • More control over Cloudflare features within the Kinsta control panel
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Likelihood to Renew
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This is an extremely solid hosting product that I have yet to find clients who use it disappointed. I have had clients move from other competitors several times in search of something more reliable and scalable but not after they moved to Kinsta.
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Usability
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Their dashboard is really well layed out and simple to use for most users. I also really appreciate the fact that our clients are able to collaborate with us by granting us access. Their site migration tool is straightforward and painless to use as well!
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Reliability and Availability
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We never had any major downtimes with our service, and I believe that's because it's based in a cloud-based network so therefore our system is being shared amongst multiple points.
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Performance
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As mentioned before the performance was amazing and pages were loading quickly. They also provide other tools to help you improve further.
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Support Rating
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They are quick to respond, very knowledgeable and I don't have to be escalated to get my problems resolved quickly. They have an efficient chat system that allows for support requests to be handled quickly and easily picked up by another specialist if the need arises. They are always there when I need them.
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Implementation Rating
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Not really it's a really easy to use system and straightforward!
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Alternatives Considered
For the ease of storing and managing Terabytes of data
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Whilst SiteGround can be cheaper, it uses a lower-tier Google Cloud server infrastructure for hosting compared to Kinsta. SiteGround's support is inferior (it used to be very good) and the new SiteGround UI is not as easy to use or as intuitive as Kinsta. SiteGround also does not offer as many server-side tools.
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Scalability
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We worked with clients who have major surges of visitor hits on a Buddhist website, and Kinsta was definitely up to the job. They were able to handle this and still provide excellent performance. As well, it was easy to track down other barriers for Google Ratings using their system to further improve the performance of these clients.
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Return on Investment
  • provided quick and easy solutions
  • Quick maintenance of our application
  • Negative impact is about performance handling issues and slowness of OS
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  • Our website was up and running in less than a day
  • Despite not doing a huge advertising drive yet (we're still not ready at the moment), we've noticed a steady increase of organic visitors to the site, at least by 30%, which still isn't a lot in overall numbers at the moment, but that is expected
  • Cost is higher, so we've had to separate a budget just for Kinsta
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ScreenShots

Kinsta Screenshots

Screenshot of the MyKinsta dashboard