With the addition of bandwidth-based pricing for Kinsta’s WordPress hosting plans, we’ve updated the MyKinsta dashboard so that you can choose how you want us to measure activity on your existing websites.
Customers establishing new accounts will select server bandwidth usage or visitor counts as their preferred method for sizing hosting plans. But existing customers are most likely to have plans based on our long-standing visit-based approach.
Now you can easily switch between visit-based and bandwidth-based pricing for your hosting plan within MyKinsta.
Here’s how:
A new look for the Update Plan tool
A hosting plan at Kinsta might support just one website or many. Traffic across all websites within a plan is consolidated for billing purposes, so the location for resource usage reports and plan details is under Company settings.
To find the details of your current plan, navigate to username > Company settings > My Plan. The Plans & subscriptions page will display the plan type, cost, and renewal date. Additional add-ons you have purchased will also be listed here:
Above, a WP 5 plan based on visits is shown, along with a Kinsta Automatic Updates add-on. The hosting plan renews annually on Aug. 22.
To change this plan, click the Update plan button.
On the Update WordPress Hosting plan dialog below, the current WP 5 plan is highlighted in green. The plan’s features include support for up to 125,000 visits a month:
To change this visit-based plan to bandwidth metering without changing other features (including the price), click on the dropdown that currently displays Visits pricing and select Bandwidth pricing.
Below, the same WP 5 plan with bandwidth pricing enabled reports a server limit of 65 GB:
To accept this new measure for the plan, click the Continue button. MyKinsta asks you to review what will happen next:
Note that updating the WordPress hosting plan will start a new billing cycle from the current date. However, you will be credited for any unused portion of the existing plan.
If you are satisfied with these next steps, click the Update plan and pay button.
Switching from bandwidth pricing to visits pricing
A hosting plan configured for bandwidth-based billing can also be converted to visit-based measurement, beginning with the steps outlined above.
When you select Update plan from the Plans & subscriptions page. The following dialog will show bandwidth-based plans with the option to choose Visits pricing:
Again, switching between Bandwidth pricing and Visits pricing will generate a new start date for the billing cycle.
Summary
Kinsta’s WordPress hosting customers can choose between server bandwidth requirements or visitor counts when sizing new hosting plans.
Those with legacy visit-based plans can easily switch to bandwidth-based pricing right in their MyKinsta dashboards. Our standard visit-based hosting plans have equivalent bandwidth-based versions so that customers can change the approach to plan limits without changing plan prices.
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