What is website hosting?
Website hosting is, simply put, the storage space on a server where the files and database that make up your website are stored. Your website hosting plan will also provide the processing power needed to serve your website content to your visitors. All WordPress websites need a hosting plan.
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Say goodbye to traditional hosting
Silvercode is a Kinsta Agency partner, allowing us to provide the absolute latest in high performance hosting services, all ultimately powered on the Google Cloud Platform.
Our WordPress Hosting plans include:
- Enjoy premium grade, expert-level support. As a Kinsta client via Silvercode's Agency Partnership, you will have access to direct hosting support from both the Silvercode and Kinsta support teams. This ensures you have two levels of support redundancy for complete peace of mind. We would recommend Silvercode as your first port of call, however, if you cannot reach us urgently, you'll furthermore be able to access the support of the Kinsta team, who are available instantly via live chat 24/7/365.
- Our fully managed hosting services are built upon the Google Cloud Network. Google's high-speed, redundant, and low-latency global network is widely considered the best network infrastructure in the world.
- Our hosting services enjoy a combination of NVMe storage, NGINX web server, MariaDB, PHP 8.x, and HTTP/3 protocol to ensure unparalleled website speed and responsiveness.
- All sites are hosted on Google's top C3D servers, enhanced by unlimited IO throughput, newer CPUs with higher clock speeds, and the ability to utilize up to 360 vCPUs and 3 TB of DDR5 memory.
- Our hosting plans each come with 12 CPU cores, up to 1000MB/s disk I/O, 8 PHP workers, and 8GB of memory. This is a substantial offering, meaning the resources given to every individual website will beat the resources typically offered to an entire dedicated server. There’s not much you can throw at our hosting accounts that they can’t handle gracefully. Better yet, each hosting plan comes with a resource guarantee through isolated software containers, ensuring you’ll never not have these resources available to you.
- DNS hosting is available on request at no extra cost. However, modern best practice is to keep your DNS hosting separate to your web server. Our hosting services integrate seamlessly with Cloudflare, who provide industry-leading and completely free DNS hosting. We strongly recommend all of our hosting clients use Cloudflare for DNS hosting.
- Each hosting plan lives in an isolated software container, ensuring it is unaffected from any other websites from both a security and performance standpoint.
- PHPMailer/SMTP, free SSL certificates and unlimited alias domains are included as standard.
- One of the most lucrative inclusions of our hosting services is the Cloudflare Enterprise CDN. Cloudflare Enterprise usually costs USD $250+ per month on its own, but is included free as part of your hosting plan. This feature can ensure your website is ultra fast not just in Australia, but across the entire globe.
- Our hosting accounts are powered by Kinsta’s edge caching technology, which can slash page load times by up to 85%. No additional plugins are required and it will simply “work” by default. No more fiddly or paid caching plugins required.
- All clients are able to choose their own preferred data center location per site from 35 options around the world, at no extra cost.
- Enterprise-level firewall & DDoS protection: Our hosting services will instantly detect and block DDoS attacks with Cloudflare's IP-based firewall.
- Industry-leading security compliance: Our hosting services have obtained SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27017 & ISO 27018 compliance certifications, as well as having been added to the CSA Star Registry as a CSA Star Level 1 organisation.
- Daily backups: Secure, automatic daily backups with one-click restore. All backups are kept for 30 days.
- Simple and instant staging environments: Clone your live site to a staging area for testing, featuring easy push-to-live. All included as standard.
- Free simple migration of your website from your current hosting provider. (Please note that if your website has complex migration requirements or you have limited access to your existing hosting provider, an additional fee may apply. We will notify you upfront if either of these situations apply.)
- Our website hosting service does not include any email accounts. To ensure reliability and security, email services should always be hosted independently from your website, with a modern, dedicated email hosting service such as Google Workspace or Microsoft 365.
- Our hosting service does not use cPanel. The Kinsta hosting account interface is a bespoke solution, though all of the tools you'll need are still available - just in a modernised and simplified layout. You’ll be able to access your website’s files using your favourite FTP/SSH client, while your database can be accessed as usual through phpMyAdmin. You can also connect to your website via SSH, where Git, Composer and WP-CLI are all pre-installed and available for you to use.
- Each hosting account may only house one website installation. Add-on domains are not available. Sub-domains are available, but must each have their own individual hosting account if you intend to host a separate website installation on them.
Greatly discounted hosting pricing - passed directly on to our clients
As a Silvercode client, you’ll be put on one of Kinsta’s most powerful plans available, with the highest resource limits. To get a comparable plan as a direct Kinsta customer, you’d be looking at paying at least AUD $535 per month if you were a direct customer.
Because of our Agency Partner status, we’re able to secure significant discounts on this pricing for our clients, with plans starting from just $45 incl. GST.
Pricing is ultimately based on your individual website’s disk space and bandwidth requirements. If you are not already a hosting client, get in touch for a bespoke quote today.
