When a client reports slow admin screens, failed checkouts, or random timeouts, agencies don’t have the luxury of digging through dozens of tables or reverse-engineering plugin behavior. You need to recognize the likely failure points quickly and focus your attention… Continue Reading →
There’s a persistent belief that being a “premium” agency simply means charging more. In reality, premium positioning has very little to do with price and everything to do with trust. It’s the confidence clients feel when they know you’ll get… Continue Reading →
Websites aren’t built just to publish content, and metadata isn’t fine-tuned for fun; it’s all of these activities that work together so your pages can be discovered more easily. For years, Google Search has been the primary gateway to that visibility, thanks… Continue Reading →
Managing WordPress sites for clients requires hosting that delivers without constant intervention. However, there’s a valid fear of downtime, broken DNS records, or lost data that may create hesitation, preventing you from making a necessary infrastructure change. Kinsta’s migration team… Continue Reading →
Surface-level feature lists rarely tell the complete story when you evaluate managed WordPress hosting for development. You need to understand how PHP thread allocation impacts concurrent request handling, how multiple caching layers work together to reduce database load, and whether… Continue Reading →
Most WordPress users don’t realize how far the block editor has come. Core blocks like Cover, Group, Columns, and Image now include enough built-in design controls to create layered depth, cinematic scroll effects, bold typography, and polished layouts that previously… Continue Reading →
Most agencies move through their days balancing design work, development timelines, and client communication then suddenly get pulled into a different world the moment a site slows down, a plugin misbehaves, or a server error pops up. You’re expected to… Continue Reading →
Managing complex WordPress sites means dealing with plugin-heavy architectures, thousands of concurrent users, and clients who expect consistent performance. When you handle dozens of high-traffic builds for enterprise clients, standard hosting infrastructure breaks down. Kinsta provides an infrastructure built for… Continue Reading →
Every hour spent troubleshooting uptime issues, applying security patches, or configuring scaling represents time that could be allocated to client projects. Infrastructure management within a developer-led agency can create hidden costs and prevent you from writing good code. This post… Continue Reading →
PHP 8.5 has now been officially released, and developers naturally want to know what kind of performance improvements they can expect across popular CMSs and frameworks. To find out, we benchmarked 12 widely used CMSs and frameworks, including WordPress, WooCommerce,… Continue Reading →
A full-service agency that manages multiple client websites doesn’t need slow workflows. However, typical single-environment hosting creates constant bottlenecks, forcing risky live edits, delayed approvals, and sleepless nights before launches. Kinsta’s multi-environment setup changes that by providing you with tools… Continue Reading →
Modern WordPress development has evolved beyond manual setups and inconsistent deployment workflows. Radicle combines Roots‘ and other WordPress dev tools, such as Bedrock, Sage, and Acorn, into a single starter stack. This integration means you can have Laravel’s development experience directly… Continue Reading →
The web is busier than ever, with not just human visitors, but an increasing wave of automated bots, crawlers, and AI tools constantly scanning websites for content and data. While some bots are helpful, such as search engine crawlers that… Continue Reading →
Traffic spikes aren’t reserved for enterprise sites. Even a modest WooCommerce shop can see its traffic triple after a well-timed ad, email blast, or seasonal promotion. Take Black Friday as an example. According to NPR, U.S. consumers spent $10.8 billion… Continue Reading →
Every November, it happens like clockwork. Stores roll out their biggest sales of the year, traffic surges overnight, and dashboards light up with warnings. In the rush to keep everything running smoothly, many merchants hit the panic button and upgrade… Continue Reading →
Black Friday week is one of the biggest sales periods of the year for e-commerce. Adobe Analytics reported that shoppers spent a record $10.8 billion online on Black Friday in 2024 alone. Our own 2024 data confirms the same trend. Checkout activity on… Continue Reading →
If you run a website, chances are you’ve heard the word bandwidth. It is the amount of data your site sends to visitors. This means every time a page loads, an image appears, or a video plays, it consumes bandwidth…. Continue Reading →
