From our entire team, thank you! 💙
Kinsta has officially secured the #1 spot in G2's 2026 Best Software Awards for Web Hosting! 🏆
The momentum continues in the newly released Summer 2026 Reports, where we just took home a clean sweep of specialized honors. #G2Awards
Bot traffic is getting weird fast.
AI crawlers can be useful, noisy, or disruptive. A traffic spike alone won’t always tell you which is which.
We’re talking through what changed and how to decide what to block, allow, or manage.
Register: https://t.co/stvqWkxHvk
At #WCEU , Kinsta’s Marcel Bootsman warned that contributor burnout is the #1 threat to #WordPress. Supporting open source is strategic risk management.
Sponsor the contributors you rely on! Kinsta pledges 282 paid hours/wk & sponsors 27 contributors.
#OpenSource
WooCommerce stores have a different bot problem.
Bots do not just hit cached pages. They hit carts, checkout, filters, and add-to-cart endpoints, triggering PHP and database work every time.
The fix is not blocking everything. It is path-level control.
More in the report ⬇️
When bot traffic spikes, blocking everything feels tempting. But not all bots are the problem.
Googlebot drives discoverability. Some AI crawlers drive zero referral traffic.
The best move? Control which bots access which parts of your site. More here ⬇️
https://t.co/Xpqst7W8io
That’s a wrap on WordCamp Europe 2026 in Kraków! A massive thank you to our awesome team who showed up for Kinsta, and to everyone in the community who stopped by our booth to make this week so incredible! 🇵🇱
#WordCampEurope#WCEU@WCEurope
Big congratulations to Brecht Ryckaert for winning the Kinsta giveaway at WordCamp Europe 2026! 🎉
Thank you to everyone who has stopped by our booth. Connecting with this vibrant community is always the absolute highlight of our time at #WCEU. 💜
#WCEU2026#WordCamp#Kinsta
The energy at WordCamp Europe 2026 here in Kraków has been absolutely unmatched!
Let’s keep this momentum going! Drop by the Kinsta booth, meet our incredible team, and talk managed hosting before the event wraps up.
#WCEU2026#WordCampEurope#WordPressCommunity#Kinsta
Bot management comes down to three trade-offs:
Discoverability vs. server load
Reach vs. infrastructure cost
Ease vs. precision
Most sites make these calls without realizing it.
Kinsta’s AI traffic report breaks down what each one means in practice ⬇️
https://t.co/Rz5QV0IGIV
Most bots are not “attacking” your site. Some are just terrible at crawling.
That means your server has to do heavy work for traffic that may never become a customer.
Here's how this plays out, and how to manage it ⬇️
https://t.co/f6IMSXfSQY
We dug into 10 billion requests and found something pretty hard to ignore:
1 in 31 site visits is now an AI bot. A year ago, it was 1 in 200.
Some hit expensive pages, get stuck in loops, and add costs without you noticing.
Read the report: https://t.co/dypV1lgZFJ
TIP: Ask your host how they handle partial failures. A slow payment API, a regional CDN issue, a hanging script. Your site is technically up, but the experience is broken for users.
Uptime percentages don't capture any of that.
🔗 https://t.co/nD3kLehdR2
Your analytics tool shows traffic dropped 15% last week. It can't tell you whether that's a real audience change or a bot spike that inflated last week's baseline. The "why" lives at the server and infrastructure layers.
🔗 https://t.co/dOh4ljy9ox
Thank you to @WebHostingCat for running Kinsta through their 2026 WordPress load and speed tests. Give it a read if you're sizing up your WP hosting options 👀
https://t.co/0mqKi9VtnF
Three things determine how fast your site recovers from human error:
➡️ Granular backups
➡️ Staging that mirrors production
➡️ One-click rollback.
🔗 https://t.co/tySh6ZcGzt
NEW: Add, update, and remove WP Admin auto-login users across your entire Kinsta portfolio through the API.
→ Onboard a new developer in one call.
→ Offboard a contractor in one script.
→ No more manual credential audits.
🔗 https://t.co/1WVEC8jTFP
Catch WordPress traffic decay early by tracking metrics bots don't generate: scroll depth, meaningful clicks, form starts. If those are drifting down while total sessions stay flat, your human audience is shrinking and bots are hiding it.
Full breakdown:
https://t.co/OGTWJOQZrV
There’s a persistent assumption that “real” developers manage their own servers, and that managed hosting is for people who can’t handle infrastructure.
The reality looks different for developer-led agencies that have already made the switch:
🔗 https://t.co/p3qpi5wEPg
40 client site logins a day × 60 seconds spent hunting for credentials = an hour of your team’s time, gone.
With one-click WP Admin access from MyKinsta, there’s no back-and-forth for credentials. You just log in and get to work. 😉
🔗 https://t.co/IebDLaDy3Q
Three DNS mistakes that take sites down during migration:
→ Changing records before the new site is ready
→ Forgetting MX records (bye, email)
→ Not lowering TTL 48 hours before the switch
All preventable if you plan ahead.
Here’s the full migration guide: 🔗