A higher hosting tier does not necessarily make checkout faster.
Personalized checkout responses should not be cached. CDN delivery and edge caching help serve content efficiently, but they do not settle whether your hosting configuration fits dynamic checkout demand. PHP processing and memory belong in that assessment too.
That is where I would start. Not with installation count. Not with someone else’s speed result.
I like a tidy comparison table as much as anyone. Unfortunately, “one WordPress site” is not enough information to size a workload.
For me, Kinsta is worth considering when its managed services replace work I would otherwise need to handle, and the selected configuration fits the site. Here is how I would check both.
Separate delivery, diagnosis, and recovery
These are different jobs.…