Kinsta C3D VMs review (2026): what Kinsta's changelog says

Kinsta has moved its managed WordPress hosting to Google Cloud C3D virtual machines in a growing list of data centres, according to changelog posts from December 2023 to November 2024. This page summarises Kinsta's changelog posts, with links.

Explainer based on public documentation, not hands-on testing. We have not used Kinsta for this page. Every statement below is taken from the public page shown in brackets. There is no rating or score. Written by Open Registry Data, 25 Oct 2026.

What changed

Kinsta says its platform previously used Google Cloud's compute-optimized C2 machines and that it is adopting the newer C3D machine type wherever it is available. [1]
In its own testing, Kinsta reports response times 20% to 50% faster on C3D-based VMs than on C2. [1]
Kinsta attributes the speed-up to AMD EPYC processors and an infrastructure processing unit (IPU) that Google developed with Intel, which offloads network and storage I/O from the CPU. [1] [2]

Where it applies

Kinsta's first post (December 2023) listed six data centres: Singapore, Belgium, Netherlands, Iowa, South Carolina and Virginia. [1]
An August 2024 post added Frankfurt and Sydney, and a November 2024 post added Taiwan, after Singapore and Mumbai in Asia, and listed Las Vegas among the other C3D locations. [2] [3]
Kinsta says C3D-powered data centres are labelled 'Boosted' when you choose a location for a new site in MyKinsta, and that it migrated existing sites in those locations to the new machines. [2] [3]

Specs Kinsta quotes

Kinsta states that C2 VMs support up to 60 virtual CPUs and 240 GB of RAM, while C3D supports up to 360 virtual CPUs and 2.88 TB of DDR5 memory. [1] [2]

What this page does not cover

We have not benchmarked Kinsta. The 20% to 50% figure is Kinsta's own test result. The list of Boosted data centres may have changed since these posts.

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Sources

[1] Kinsta changelog: Kinsta Is Adopting Google's C3D Machines (Dec 2023): https://kinsta.com/changelog/google-c3d-machines/ (read 25 Oct 2026)
[2] Kinsta changelog: Kinsta adopts faster C3D VMs in Frankfurt and Sydney (Aug 2024): https://kinsta.com/changelog/c3d-frankfurt-sydney/ (read 25 Oct 2026)
[3] Kinsta changelog: Kinsta's platform is supercharged in Taiwan with Google's C3D VMs (Nov 2024): https://kinsta.com/changelog/c3d-taiwan/ (read 25 Oct 2026)

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