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In 2016, our team set out to scale Kinsta’s already high- performance WordPress offering . That process culminated in moving and consolidating our entire multi-vendor infrastructure onto Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Looking back, that choice played a big role in allowing us to build the fastest WordPress hosting platform in the world.

In this article, we’ll dive into Kinsta’s vision and why we chose Google Cloud Platform as our infrastructure provider. Specifically, you’ll learn how Kinsta uses compute-optimized virtual machines (C2D and C3D), premium traffic routing, and a custom containerized hosting stack to take WordPress performance to the next level.

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Google Cloud Platform and Virtual Machines
Google's cloud platform offers a variety of virtual machines (VMs). Think of a VM as a computer in a data center that is fully equipped with a CPU, RAM, SSD storage , and a fast internet connection.

Just like regular computers, VMs come in different configurations. In cyprus phone number data GCP, VMs are categorized into different families.

Specifically:

N1, N2, and E2 VMs are general-purpose machines suitable for a variety of workloads, but are not optimized for a single task. They are popular for web servers, business applications, and smaller databases.
The M1 and M2 machines are loaded with RAM for memory-intensive use cases like large in-memory SQL and NoSQL databases and in-memory data analytics.
C2 machines are “compute-optimized” VMs designed for electronic design automation, high-performance gaming, and other CPU-intensive workloads like WordPress . These are the fastest servers on Google’s cloud platform and what we deploy here at Kinsta.