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SITESHIFT VS DEVKINSTA

SiteShift vs DevKinsta: no Docker, no single host.

DevKinsta is Kinsta's free local environment: Docker underneath, a one-click push to Kinsta on top. SiteShift skips Docker and pushes to any SSH host. If your clients are at Kinsta, DevKinsta is hard to beat there; if they aren't, it can't help you.

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Checked September 2026 · DevKinsta requires Docker Desktop; details on kinsta.com

SiteShift vs DevKinsta

SiteShift DevKinsta
Price €9/mo Free
Docker required No Yes
Deploys to Any SSH host Kinsta
PHP per site 8.2–8.5 Several versions
Pull a live site Any SSH host Kinsta
Review before push File diff —
Runs on macOS (Apple Silicon), Windows macOS, Windows, Ubuntu
WHICH ONE

Pick by what you're actually doing

Choose DevKinsta when
  • Your clients host at Kinsta and you want the first-party push
  • You're already running Docker Desktop for other projects
  • You need Linux, or an Intel Mac
Choose SiteShift when
  • Your clients are on Hostinger, SiteGround, a VPS or shared hosting
  • You'd rather not run a Docker daemon for WordPress
  • You want to pull a live site from wherever it is, not just one host

Questions

Kinsta gives you a normal SSH login, so yes — as a manual SSH connection. There's no Kinsta API integration in SiteShift; DevKinsta's push is more convenient for Kinsta-hosted sites.

Static PHP and MySQL binaries start faster, need no daemon and don't compete with your other containers for memory. The trade-off is fewer knobs than a Dockerfile; for WordPress that's rarely the constraint.

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