We're a
Kinsta Elite Agency Partner
The top tier of Kinsta's partner program. We earned it the only way you can — by running our clients' businesses on it.
We don't just recommend Kinsta. We moved more than 200 client websites onto their platform and rebuilt our hosting operation around it. Here's what that partnership has meant for our clients, and what it can mean for yours.
Elite is the top of
three partner tiers
Kinsta's Agency Partner Program has three levels. Elite sits at the top, and it isn't something an agency can buy — it's earned by the volume and the quality of the work running on the platform.
Priority Lead Referrals
Kinsta sends WordPress customers who need expert help straight to Elite partners. That's a pipeline most agencies never see.
Co-Marketing Access
Our work gets featured by Kinsta — including the case study they wrote about what happened when we moved our portfolio to their platform.
A Direct Line
Partner Slack access and a dedicated partner contact mean an escalation on your site doesn't sit in a general support queue.
Vetted and Listed
We're listed as an Elite Partner in Kinsta's public Agency Directory. You don't have to trust a badge on our site — go check theirs.
Why we moved
200 websites to Kinsta
We didn't arrive here on a recommendation. We got here the long way, and the move was a decision we'd already spent a decade earning.
We started where everyone starts
GoDaddy, then 1&1. Fine for a brochure site. As our clients grew into real traffic and real transactions, shared hosting stopped keeping up.
Ten years on dedicated servers
We moved to Rackspace dedicated hardware and ran it ourselves for about a decade. That bought us control. It also made us responsible for server-side caching, minification, monitoring and maintenance.
Then we hit the wall
Page speed bottlenecks that took constant manual work to hold back. Downtime during exactly the high-traffic sales events our clients had planned for months. And a team spending its days on infrastructure instead of the work clients hired us for.
We moved the whole portfolio
Close to 200 client websites onto Kinsta's Agency platform — server-level caching, Cloudflare's global edge network, and a dashboard built for managing a portfolio rather than a single site.
What finally decided it
“Kinsta stood out because of its advanced infrastructure, ensuring fast load times and minimal downtime. Their partnership with Cloudflare and their high-performance servers made the comparison night and day compared to our previous hosting solutions.”
Carley Kuehner, Founder & CEO
What we were actually trying to fix
- Google PageSpeed bottlenecks that needed continuous manual optimization
- Server-side caching and minification we had to maintain ourselves
- Downtime during client sales events, when it costs the most
- Server work pulling the team away from the work clients pay for
The numbers
Kinsta published
These aren't our marketing figures. They're from the case study Kinsta wrote about us, on Kinsta's own site.
One of our pet-retail clients separately reported a 35% increase in sales and a 25% increase in customer retention during promotional events, alongside a 20-point jump in their optimization score. Those figures belong to that client, not to every site we host.
Read the full case study on KinstaKinsta has been instrumental in our agency's growth by providing a reliable and high-performance hosting environment that scales with our needs.
What you actually get
on Kinsta
Managed WordPress hosting built on infrastructure most agencies couldn't assemble on their own — and every one of these is standard, not an upsell.
Google Cloud, C3D machines
Kinsta runs on Google Cloud's compute-optimized C3D machines over Google's Premium Tier network — the low-latency routing, not the cheap path.
30+ data centers
Pick the region closest to your customers and your site is served from there, instead of from wherever your host happened to have capacity.
Edge caching, 300+ locations
Full HTML pages cached across Cloudflare's edge network, included on every plan, with no caching plugin to configure or break.
Free expert migrations
Unlimited migrations handled by hand by Kinsta's own engineers, with no downtime and no migration fee, on every plan.
Managed firewall and DDoS protection
An enterprise WAF with DDoS and bot protection, plus vulnerability detection powered by Patchstack, managed for you.
Free malware removal
If a Kinsta-hosted site is compromised, their team cleans it — deep file scan, clean core reinstall, infected plugin and theme removal.
Daily automatic backups
Files, database, redirects and server config backed up every day with one-click restore. Six-hour and hourly backups are available as add-ons.
Kinsta APM
A WordPress-specific performance monitor built into the dashboard. It names the slow query or the guilty plugin instead of leaving you to guess.
One-click staging
Clone the site, test the change, push it live. Plus SSH, SFTP, WP-CLI and Git access when a developer needs to get underneath it.
24/7 support in 8 languages
Real engineers, around the clock, with first responses measured in minutes. This is the part we felt most after a decade of being our own support team.
Which Kinsta plan
fits your situation
Hosting prices move, so we won't quote numbers that go stale. Here's how the tiers actually differ, and where to check the current rate.
Single Site
One WordPress site that matters to your business.
- One WordPress install
- Free expert migration
- Edge caching and CDN included
- Daily backups
- Staging environment
Agency
A portfolio of client sites under one roof. This is the plan our 200+ sites live on.
- Many installs on a single plan
- 30-day backup retention
- Unbranded WordPress admin
- Agency Directory listing
- Account management
Enterprise
Compliance requirements, serious scale, or a procurement team involved.
- Enterprise security and compliance
- SOC 2 and ISO 27001
- Dedicated infrastructure options
- Custom contract terms
Every Kinsta plan includes free expert migrations, staging, edge caching, daily backups, the managed firewall and 24/7 support. Current plan details and pricing live on kinsta.com. Not sure which one you need? Ask us — we size these every week.
Great hosting is half the job.
We do the other half.
Kinsta gives your site fast, secure, well-monitored infrastructure. It doesn't update your plugins, watch your Core Web Vitals, fix the thing that broke at 11pm, or explain why conversions dipped last Tuesday. That part is ours.
We migrate you
Kinsta's team moves the site for free. We handle DNS, SSL, redirects and the QA pass afterward, so nothing quietly breaks in the move.
We manage it
Updates, backups, uptime monitoring, security and performance tuning under our Website Managed Services plans. You stop thinking about it.
We grow it
Hosting is the foundation, not the goal. SEO, paid search, social and content are what actually move the number you care about.
What that gets you
- A site on the same platform we trust with more than 200 others
- One team for hosting, maintenance and marketing
- No finger-pointing between your host and your agency
- Direct escalation through our Elite partner channel
- 25+ years of agency experience standing behind it
Frequently asked
questions
Kinsta's Agency Partner Program has three tiers: Entry, Select and Elite. Elite is the top tier, reserved for agencies running a substantial, ongoing book of business on the platform. Cosmick Media is listed as an Elite Partner in Kinsta's public Agency Directory, so you can verify it independently rather than taking our word for it.
No. You can buy hosting from Kinsta directly at their published rates. What we add on top is the migration, the ongoing management and the marketing, and those are our services, priced separately. If you would rather hand off the whole stack, that is what our Website Managed Services plans are for.
Yes. Every Kinsta plan includes unlimited expert-led migrations handled by their own engineers at no extra cost and with no downtime. We coordinate the move and take care of DNS, SSL, redirects and the post-migration QA pass so nothing quietly breaks on the way over.
We spent roughly ten years on dedicated servers before this, so we have run the experiment. Cheaper hosting stops being cheaper once you count the hours spent on caching, patching and firefighting, or the revenue lost when a site goes down in the middle of a sale. Our own numbers after moving: 60% faster page loads, 40% less time spent on site maintenance, and zero downtime during high-traffic periods.
Kinsta is WordPress hosting. Their application, database and static site products moved to a separate brand, Sevalla, in early 2026. If your project is not WordPress, tell us what it is and we will point you at the right platform rather than forcing a fit.
Yes, and Kinsta published it themselves. It is titled "Cosmick Media grows client base by 50% with 60% faster page load times" and it lives on kinsta.com, alongside our Elite Partner listing in their Agency Directory. Both are linked from this page so you can read them at the source.
If you only need hosting, use the Kinsta signup link on this page and you are off. If you want the site migrated, managed and marketed, start a conversation with us and we will scope the whole thing, hosting included.
Ready to put your site on Kinsta?
Start with Kinsta directly, or hand us the whole move and get the hosting, the maintenance and the marketing from one team. Either way, your site ends up somewhere faster.
Cosmick Media is a member of the Kinsta Agency Partner Program at the Elite tier and has a marketing relationship with Kinsta. We may earn a commission on hosting purchased through links on this page, at no additional cost to you.
Kinsta®, MyKinsta® and DevKinsta® are trademarks owned by Kinsta Inc. WordPress® is a trademark of the WordPress Foundation. Cosmick Media is an independent agency and is not an employee, agent or representative of Kinsta Inc. Performance figures on this page are drawn from the case study published by Kinsta and reflect results for Cosmick Media and its clients; individual results vary.