Pressing CMD + K on macOS or CTRL + K on Windows and Linux invokes the new omni-search command dialog. From there, you can navigate to any page within the MyKinsta interface, assisted by search functionality that filters available options in context with your current location within the menu tree.

Within the omni-search command dialog, keyboard junkies can take control of MyKinsta without reaching for the mouse, while two-fisted navigators can combine the two approaches.

Kristóf Dombi, Kinsta’s Head of Development Architecture and the creator of the new MyKinsta feature, says he’s not a keyboard dilettante but was inspired by the “Command Palette” with similar functionality introduced by GitHub.

“I’m not typically a heavy user of keyboard navigation, but ever since GitHub released its own command menu, I’ve started using it more and more,” Kristóf says. “I recently discovered how useful it is, and it occurred to me that we should implement something similar within MyKinsta.”

“Given our new branding, the timing couldn’t be more perfect.”

MyKinsta omni-search in action

Here’s a quick video tour of the new feature:

When invoked, the omni-search interface provides a command prompt and a list of options available within the current menu context. You can use the keyboard’s arrow keys (or mouse) to choose options at that level or start typing at the command prompt to initiate a search filter.

Below, we’ve used the arrow keys to highlight the Search WordPress Sites… option and pressed the Enter key to reveal the available sites in this MyKinsta instance:

After selecting a website named Auto Shop and its Live environment, the command dialog serves up the menu options applicable to the current context:

When we begin typing at the command prompt, the menu options are filtered in real-time:

By pressing the Delete (macOS) or Backspace (Windows/Linux) keys within the command prompt, you can traverse back up the menu tree. You can use this technique to move above a company dashboard to access the Companies / Account level:

Kinsta’s Kristóf says the current incarnation of the omni-search feature is focused solely on navigation, “but there’s potential for additional features in the future.”

“We hope that this new feature proves to be valuable for our customers,” he says.

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Until now, the best fit for Kinsta’s hosting platform was GCP’s compute-optimized C2 machines, but a new machine type Google calls C3D is boosting VM performance again with improved hardware and a more efficient approach to I/O. In fact, our testing of C3D-based VMs saw response times improve by 20% to 50% when switching from already-fast C2 machines.

C3D Machines Already Available in Some Data Centers

These faster C3D machines are not yet available everywhere on GCP’s global network of data centers, but Kinsta is moving quickly to adopt them wherever possible.

C3D VMs are now the default hosts for new websites Kinsta customers create within the following six regional data centers:

• North America
  • Ashburn, Virginia, USA (us-east4)
  • Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA (us-central1)
  • Moncks Corner, South Carolina, USA (us-east1)
• Europe
  • Eemshaven, Netherlands (europe-west4)
  • St. Ghislain, Belgium (europe-west1)
• Asia
  • Jurong West, Singapore (asia-southeast1)

Kinsta has already migrated the majority of existing sites in these data centers to the C3D platform — a process that should be completed early in the new year.

Find C3D-Boosted Data Centers in MyKinsta

When creating new sites within the MyKinsta dashboard, regions with the C3D VMs enabled are labeled as Boosted” in the Data center location drop-down:

Kinsta will take advantage of C3D machines in other regions as Google makes them widely available in more of the 35 data centers used by our customers.

Serving Demanding Workloads With C3D Machines

Kinsta CTO Daniel Pataki says, “Real-life tests show that C3D machines can serve the same amount of requests with lower CPU usage, which translates to better spike handling and increased resilience.”

Making that happen, Pataki says, is the C3D’s AMD EPYC processor and an infrastructure processing unit (or IPU) that Google developed with Intel and which relieves the CPU of computation behind some networking, storage, and other cloud infrastructure chores.

“C3D machines take full advantage of this new architecture,” he says. “That results in maximized networking performance, isolation, and security.”

On the processing side, the C2 machines support a maximum of 60 virtual CPUs and 240 gigabytes of RAM. C3Ds can utilize six times those resources — up to 360 virtual CPUs and 2.88 terabytes of DDR5 memory.

“This allows us to serve significantly more demanding workloads,” Pataki says. “The C3D machine family gives Kinsta more flexibility to do what serves our customers’ needs best, and it also gives our customers room to grow faster on a strong foundation they can trust.”

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Customer feedback and extensive research have provided great insight into the most important things you look for when it comes to documentation. We’ve used this information to overhaul our Docs pages and make it easier for you to find what you need when you need it.

What’s New?

Here are some of the improvements now live on our English-language Docs site:

New Homepage

The new homepage includes links to all of our product documentation areas as well as links to our quick start guides for application and static site hosting.

New Search

Previously, when you searched anywhere on Kinsta’s website, results could come from Docs, our Knowledge Base, and our Blog. Now, when you search within Docs, you get just documentation results. That means it’s now easier to find the help you’re looking for.

We’ve also added search suggestions, showing the top 20 results for your search. You can also see all search results on one page with a description of what each document contains.

New Navigation

The new Docs navigation on the left makes it easier to see what’s included within each area of the documentation so you can find what you need for each product.

Within each Docs page, you now have access to in-page navigation on the right so that you can jump straight to a specific section of an article. This navigation is anchored in place, so no matter where you are in the document, the links are right there.

More Related Information

We’ve also now included related links within most documents so you can find more information through additional resources related to the same subject.

Documentation in Other Languages

We’re working on moving documentation in the non-English languages we support into the new Docs layout. Until then, help in those languages will continue to be updated.

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