The Mumbai data center is also known as asia-south1, and Las Vegas is us-west4. They bring the total number of Kinsta’s C3D-powered data centers to 10, along with these locations:

• Jurong West, Singapore (asia-southeast1)
• Sydney, Australia (australia-aoutheast1)
• St. Ghislain, Belgium (europe-west1)
• Frankfurt, Germany (europe-west3)
• Eemshaven, Netherlands (europe-west4)
• Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA (us-central1)
• Moncks Corner, South Carolina, USA (us-east1)
• Ashburn, Virginia, USA (us-east4)

Customers creating new websites can spot the C3D-enabled data centers in MyKinsta by looking for the Boosted indicator when selecting a site location:

Customers who already have websites in Mumbai and Las Vegas will soon have their sites migrated to faster machines.

Kinsta’s services are built on the most advanced virtual machines Google Cloud has available. In many of its data centers, Google’s compute-optimized C2 VMs still reign. Our testing of C3D-based VMs found speed improvements of 20% to 50% over C2 technology that is already pretty snappy. That’s why Kinsta will be adopting C3D VMs in other regions as Google makes them widely available in more data centers.

AMD’s EPYC processor and an infrastructure processing unit (or IPU) that Google developed with Intel to offload network and storage I/O from the CPU are two of the reasons C3D VMs are so fast.

While the C2 VMs support a maximum of 60 virtual CPUs and 240 gigabytes of RAM, C3Ds deliver six times those resources — up to 360 virtual CPUs and 2.88 terabytes of DDR5 memory.

As Kinsta adopts the C3D platform in more data centers, boosted WordPress sites will be performing faster than ever before.

How Kinsta makes WordPress sites faster

Supporting the fastest-available virtual machines in each data center used by Kinsta customers is Google’s low-latency Premium Tier network. Our Cloudflare integration across 260+ PoPs boosts the speed and reliability even further with a blazingly fast CDN, edge caching, early hints, and built-in image optimization.

If you aren’t already a Kinsta customer, it’s time to find a WordPress Hosting package that’s right for you.

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For a fee ($49 USD), you can now request an expedited migration. We’ll get your site moved to Kinsta’s Managed WordPress Hosting platform within eight hours or refund that fee.

As with all our migrations, we can perform an expedited migration using a backup of your current site or the connection details of your account at another hosting provider.

How to request an expedited migration

All migrations begin the same way in the MyKinsta dashboard: navigate to WordPress sites and click the Request migration button:

The next dialog asks you to choose a timeframe for your site transfer. If you’ve migrated sites at Kinsta before, you will recognize these two free options:

• As soon as possible
• On a specific date

If you select As soon as possible, we might migrate your site the same day, but we can’t guarantee that. On a specific date is an option that allows you to perform any preparation your site needs to be ready for the migration. That could be taking your site offline or stopping processes that might write to the database during the transfer window.

Clicking the Expedited Migration in 8 hours panel will highlight the paid option in green:

Below the timeframe options, you’ll see some help specific to your selection. When you are ready to proceed, scroll to the bottom of the page and click the Next button:

The next step is to specify a migration source and then proceed as explained in our Kinsta Migration documentation:

How we manage expedited migrations

We aim to fulfill all requests for expedited migrations within eight hours between 9 a.m. and 11 p.m. UTC, Monday to Friday.

Complex site requirements, slow transfer speeds from your current provider, or sites larger than 10GB can extend the migration time. If that happens, we will keep you updated. And if we don’t complete the task in eight hours, your migration will be free.

Why migrate to Kinsta?

Whether they choose our free or expedited migration service, operators of WordPress sites see significant improvements in performance after going live on Kinsta’s platform, backed by Google’s low-latency Premium Tier network, a blazingly fast CDN, edge caching, early hints, and built-in image optimization.

Explore our hosting packages and find one that’s just right for your organization.

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Customers who need just a little more elbow room in their current plan might find it cost-effective to use the new WordPress sites add-on to increase their plan’s site quota for just $30 USD per site a month. For many, that will be less than the cost of moving all the way to the next-higher hosting plan.

How to use the WordPress sites add-on

This add-on works at the Company level within the MyKinsta dashboard. Start by navigating to username > Company settings > My Plan. On the My Plan page, click the Enable button on the WordPress sites card:

Next, you can specify the number of sites you want to add to your current plan:

When to use the WordPress sites add-on

We recommend reviewing our Managed WordPress Hosting Pricing page to determine whether adding sites to your current plan is more cost-effective than upgrading the plan itself.

It’s important to note that adding a site to your current plan does not increase plan-wide resources such as limits on visits, CDN usage, and disk space (although you can increase the disk space available to your plan separately).

The WordPress analytics page within Company settings can help you determine if your current plan usage leaves room for more sites:

The analytics report above shows that this company has maxed out its WordPress site quota but probably has plenty of resources available to accommodate more using the site add-on.

Adding up Kinsta’s WordPress add-ons

In addition to the disk space add-on that works plan-wide, Kinsta offers several site-specific add-ons so that you can equip your WordPress environments with exactly the resources you need. Those add-ons support:

• Premium staging environments
• PHP memory limits
• Reverse proxies
• Redis caching
• Hourly and six-hour backups
• External backups

If you are not already a Kinsta customer and are not sure which WordPress hosting plan might be right for you, just contact our sales team.

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