Chicago, October 24, 2023 – Kinsta’s initiation of its static site hosting offering today represents a robust entry into the market, unveiling a complimentary tier that rivals well-established solutions such as Vercel, Netlify, and GitHub Pages. Corporations now have the capacity to host up to a hundred static sites at no cost, encompassing static WordPress sites, elegantly deployed by Kinsta from its extensive global edge network spanning over three hundred strategic locations.
Static sites are the purveyors of HTML pages, media content, and resources, encompassing JavaScript and CSS. They typically cater to the requisites of brochure websites, landing pages, personal portfolios, and other uncomplicated web entities, which do not necessitate dynamic page generation facilitated by server-based code. In general, static sites exhibit superior performance and enhanced security measures.
Kinsta’s cost-free static hosting tier extends the following attributes and restrictions:
1 concurrent site construction
One hundred sites per corporate entity
Six hundred minutes of site construction monthly per organization
One hundred gigabytes of monthly bandwidth allocation per enterprise
One-gigabyte site construction size threshold
API accessibility
Integration compatibility with GitHub, GitLab, and BitBucket
Diff-based Uploads
Customized domains
Complimentary SSL support
End-users possess the liberty to host pre-fabricated static sites or sites generated with frameworks employing Node.js, tailored for static site development. Kinsta has thoughtfully crafted prompt and illustrative repositories for a plethora of leading static site generators, encompassing Astro, Cuttlebelle, Docusaurus, Eleventy, Gatsby, Nuxt, Qwik, React, React partnered with Vite, and VuePress.
In addition, experts in WordPress can extend their sites into the platform and enjoy cost-free hosting by converting existing sites into static renditions. Kinsta has thoughtfully elucidated this process via an instructive manual, advocating for the deployment of a WordPress site employing a complimentary plugin. The static hosting infrastructure can be further utilized to construct frontend interfaces for varying backends or serve as the foundation for a headless WordPress site.
Individuals can inaugurate a static site on Kinsta’s infrastructure via deployment from a Git repository domiciled on BitBucket, GitHub, or GitLab. This entails the selection of a branch, incorporation of a construction command, and specification of the deployment directory. Kinsta’s platform possesses the competence to autonomously detect certain static site generators, which simplifies the entire process. Management of connection and configuration settings can be effortlessly administered through the MyKinsta dashboard.
Kinsta holds aspirations to introduce supplementary features and supplementary modules in the forthcoming period, which might be subject to fees. Nonetheless, their unwavering commitment is to preserve the availability of this service and the associated tier without cost in perpetuity.
Kinsta’s target audience encompasses corporate enterprises, creative agencies, and establishments necessitating the creation of websites and landing pages in preparation for high-traffic promotional campaigns. The organization is actively developing an extensive roster of attributes for static site hosting, including the following items on their planned roadmap:
Domains without wildcards
Amplified support for the Kinsta API
Serverless functionalities, with potential applications for static sites
Preview functionality
Maintenance mode provisions
Password security protocols
Empowering the functionality of HTML Forms
Enhanced selection of builders
Options for selecting construction templates
Comprehensive analytical insights
Kinsta’s static site hosting solution mirrors the offerings available from its competitors in terms of website construction and deployment. However, Zsomborgi set forth that their comprehensive approach to application, database, and WordPress hosting integrated under a single roof sets them apart. Moreover, Kinsta generously provides access to analytics for an unlimited number of users, mirroring Vercel’s policy, while Netlify extends this service exclusively to its premium subscribers.
