Case Study: Bookswarm boosts WordPress speed and security with Kinsta

Bookswarm ends DDoS attack risks and speeds up 230+ WordPress sites

Bookswarm, a UK-based digital agency serving publishers, authors, literary agents, and other book-related businesses, needed a more reliable way to manage its growing portfolio of 230+ WordPress sites. After moving from Plesk to Cloudways, founder Simon Appleby found himself spending too much time monitoring server loads and dealing with fire-fighting, while shared hosting setups also raised security concerns.

Kinsta provided Bookswarm with managed WordPress hosting using isolated container technology, Cloudflare integration, and free unlimited expert migrations for all of their sites. With Kinsta, Bookswarm reported fewer DDoS-style issues, stronger site isolation and security, faster page speed and back-end performance, and considerably less downtime—freeing Simon to focus more on agency growth and client work.

Bookswarm

Simon Appleby

Founder and Director