Podcast Season 1 Β· Episode 2
Kinsta
Talking with Brian Li all about WordPress hosting provider Kinsta and why they chose to utilize Google Cloud Platform.

Guests
General Questions
What is the difference between shared hosting, VPS, or dedicated hosting?
Why did Kinsta decide to use the shared container approach? https://kinsta.com/blog/google-cloud-hosting/#4-improved-performance?kaid=XIIHFPADWOKE
Is this mainly for security, or speed or reliability?
**Is pricing the biggest deciding factor for moving to GCP?
Is this savings passed to the customer? Letβs say that GCP gets even cheaper will my bill go down?**
Performance
With CodingCatDev we have LearnDash LMS as well as Buddy Boss, both of these use heavy transactional data, would it be possible to use something faster for the database?
What is MariaDB https://mariadb.org/?
Why Kinsta?
What is the real difference between Kinsta and someone else?
Picks
Alex Patterson: Mac Pro
Brian Li: Cloudflare Pages