Summary: Rocket.net records 338ms response time speed, 99.97% uptime, 66ms global TTFB and a 7.5/10 WPBench score. The performance data is collected between November 1, 2025 to August 31, 2026. In the same time period, Kinsta records 424ms response time, 99.98% uptime, 36ms load handling, 477ms global TTFB and 8.8/10 on WPBench. Rocket.net wins TTFB server response time and global TTFB. Kinsta wins uptime, load handling and the server hardware test.
Our Verdict:
| Metric | Rocket.net | Kinsta | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall rank (of 29) | #27 | #15 | Kinsta |
| Final score | 5.85 | 7.11 | Kinsta |
| Average response time | 338ms | 424ms | Rocket.net |
| Uptime | 99.97% (10 outages, 1 hour 52 minutes) | 99.98% (6 outages, 46 minutes) | Kinsta |
| Load handling (100 users, 60 seconds) | Did not complete (100% errors) | 36ms, 0% errors | Kinsta |
| Server hardware (WPBench) | 7.5/10 | 8.8/10 | Kinsta |
| Global TTFB (40 locations, cached) | 66ms | 477ms | Rocket.net |
| Intro price | $25/mo | $30/mo | Rocket.net |
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Rocket.net vs Kinsta – Overview
Rocket.net
Rocket.net was founded in 2020 and established as a super fast-managed WordPress hosting. Powered by Cloudflare Enterprise with full-page caching, Rocket offers one of the fastest hosting experiences to users all over the globe. It allows you to host from its global data centers with plans starting at $25/month, renewing at $30/month.
Kinsta
Kinsta was a renowed managed WordPress hosting provider founded in 2013. Kinsta runs on Oracle Cloud infrastructure and allows you to host from 37 global data center locations. Kinsta comes with powerful control panel and offers excellent speed and uptime.
Rocket.net vs Kinsta: Speed
Rocket.net is 86ms faster than Kinsta on server response time. Lower the server response time indicates faster the server in handling the visitor’s request. Rocket.NET has been consistently ranking at the top spot for raw speed thanks to its Cloudflare Enterprise CDN powered infrastructure. Kinsta on the other hand though it mentions offering edge caching, it is not as faster as Rocket.net.
Rocket.net vs Kinsta: Uptime
Kinsta holds the better uptime record than Rocket.net.
Rocket.net has been offering consistently good uptime from 2021 to 2024, but since 2025, we have been seeing degraded performance in uptime. There has been one or few outages happening here and there but the last 10 months performance went downhill further. The average uptime during our test period is 99.97% with total 10 outages ranging for 1 hour 52 minutes. This kind of downtime is acceptable for a shared hosting provider but for a managed WordPress hosting provider, it can do better.
Kinsto also recorded multiple downtimes in last two years due to Cloudflare. While the origin server is powerful and haven’t experienced any outages, their infrastructure is partly powered by Cloudflare, and the outages at Cloudflare, took down Kinsta sites too.
Rocket.net vs Kinsta: Load Handling
Rocket.net’s load test did not complete.
Our Rocket.net load test is blocked by Cloudflare security settings. Kinsta completed the same test on January 8, 2026 at 36ms average response with a 0% error rate.
Rocket.net vs Kinsta: Hardware Server Test
Kinsta wins the server hardware test at 8.8/10 against Rocket.net’s 7.5/10.
WPBenchmark measures the CPU, memory and disk I/O allocated to the plan we bought, which is what serves uncached requests like the WordPress backend dashboard, a WooCommerce cart or LMS site.
Kinsta has been consistently securing the highest score in hardware server tests. If you are running heavy workload sites, then Kinsta should be your ultimate choice.
Rocket.net vs Kinsta: Global TTFB
Rocket.net is 7x faster than Kinsta on global TTFB. As discussed earlier, Rocket.net comes with Cloudflare Enterprise edge caching, so it offers faster response time across the globe when we tested the site from 40 global locations. However, Kinsta performance is not top-notch there, hence the difference in speed is visible in global TTFB test.
Rocket.net vs Kinsta: Features
Data Center Locations
Rocket has as many as 20 data center locations across the globe, while Kinsta has 37 Oracle Cloud data center locations worldwide. Hence, both Rocket and Kinsta offer customers many data center locations. Kinsta provides a comparatively larger number of data center locations.
Control Panel
The Control Panel is an important feature and needs to be simple to operate. Rocket comes with its custom control panel, which is exceptionally simple to use and gives access to all the essential tools in one place.
Kinsta is no different from Rocket in terms of control panel and somewhat follows the same perception. Kinsta has a custom dashboard called MyKinsta. The dashboard is pretty easy to use, and one can find all the useful hosting tools in one place. Users can connect to Kinsta support right from their MyKinsta Dashboard.
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