Welcome to Kinsta Documentation 👋

Getting started

Create a new site

Use our site creation wizard to install WordPress that’s ready to build a site from scratch or migrate yourself.

Guide to adding a new site

Migrations

All Kinsta plans come with unlimited site migrations, so we move your existing site to Kinsta for you.

Migrations guide

Domains

Step by step instructions for adding and pointing a domain to your site on Kinsta.

Domains guide

Add-ons

View all add-ons

Customize your plan

Add extra storage or WordPress sites to your plan when you only need a little more than your default limits.

Additional disk space Additional WordPress sites

Boost your site

Add extra PHP memory to your site, create powerful development environments, or enable Redis for better response times.

PHP performance Premium staging environments Redis caching

Additional features

Get all your plugins and themes updated automatically, enable reverse proxy, or move your sites to your own server.

Automatic updates Reverse proxy Dedicated server

Backups

Beyond daily backups included with all Kinsta plans you can enable 6-hours and hourly backups, and upload backups to a remote server.

Hourly backups External backups

Development tools

Staging environments

All sites come with a free staging environment for testing new WordPress versions, plugins, code, and general development work.

Guide to using environments

Kinsta API

You can use Kinsta’s REST API to access and interact with your Kinsta projects to retrieve data, perform actions, and automate tasks without using the MyKinsta dashboard.

API guide

DevKinsta

With DevKinsta you can design and develop your WordPress sites on your local machine and when you’re ready to go live you can push your site directly to Kinsta.

DevKinsta guide