Service comparison

Cloudways vs. Kinsta

Cloudways vs. Kinsta — reliability, API availability, and incident frequency head-to-head.

Last 90 days · 35 incidents total · Data via Pulsetic monitoring

Head-to-head

90-day summary

Cloudways

cloudways.com

Online
- 90-day uptime
  
  88.45%
- Incidents (90d)
  
  17
  
  5 major · 12 minor
- Median resolution
  
  13h 2m
- Longest outage
  
  94h 23m
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Kinsta

kinsta.com

Major outage
- 90-day uptime
  
  78.65%
- Incidents (90d)
  
  18
  
  12 major · 6 minor
- Median resolution
  
  4h 1m
- Longest outage
  
  418h 7m
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Uptime over time

Availability across windows

Window	Cloudways	Kinsta	Δ
Last 24 hours	100.00%	100.00%	0.00 pp
Last 7 days	43.82%	95.51%	-51.69 pp
Last 30 days	81.54%	41.03%	+40.51 pp
Last 90 days	88.45%	78.65%	+9.80 pp

Δ is percentage-point difference (Cloudways minus Kinsta). Higher is better.

Incidents 90-day

Severity breakdown

Cloudways

17 total

5 major 12 minor
- Median resolution
  
  13h 2m
- Longest outage
  
  94h 23m
Kinsta

18 total

12 major 6 minor
- Median resolution
  
  4h 1m
- Longest outage
  
  418h 7m

Recent activity

Last 5 incidents, side-by-side

Cloudways
- Sep 1
  
  Degraded Service Affecting Elastic Email Add-on
  
  17h 37m
  
  Minor
- Aug 30
  
  Issue with Adding Domains and Managing DNS Records (DNS Made Easy Addon)
  
  3d 22h 23m
  
  Minor
- Aug 24
  
  DigitalOcean Public API Degradation
  
  13h 53m
  
  Minor
- Aug 20
  
  WP Rocket incompatibility with WordPress 7.1 (fatal errors)
  
  2h
  
  Minor
- Aug 11
  
  Service Disruption - Google Cloud Servers
  
  5h 27m
  
  Major
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Kinsta
- Aug 27
  
  Service disruption at the Toronto (CA) data center
  
  5h 30m
  
  Major
- Aug 26
  
  MyKinsta performance degradation
  
  7h 25m
  
  Minor
- Aug 20
  
  Sudden fatal errors
  
  4h 1m
  
  Minor
- Aug 17
  
  Service disruption at the Northern Virginia (Ashburn) data center
  
  5h 29m
  
  Major
- Aug 16
  
  Service disruption at the Phoenix, AZ (us-phoenix-1) data center
  
  3h 28m
  
  Major
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Bottom line

Cloudways wins

Cloudways edges out on 90-day uptime.

Cloudways posted 88.45% vs. 78.65% for Kinsta (Δ +9.80 pp). Incidents: 17 vs. 18 (-1).

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