Kinsta

Founded in 2013 and launched in 2014 on a narrow thesis: managed WordPress only, built entirely on top of Google Cloud Platform rather than its own data centers. That buys geographic reach and automatic scaling without Kinsta owning any hardware — but also a price point well above the mass-market hosts. No shared plans, no teaser rates; the audience is agencies and companies that would rather pay to stop thinking about the server. Application and database hosting were later added alongside WordPress.