{"id":395,"date":"2025-02-24T11:57:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T11:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2025\/02\/24\/10627422-how-to-increase-your-mailbox-storage-with-hostinger-email-storage-add-on\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T16:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:15:14","slug":"10627422-how-to-increase-your-mailbox-storage-with-hostinger-email-storage-add-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/10627422-how-to-increase-your-mailbox-storage-with-hostinger-email-storage-add-on\/","title":{"rendered":"How to increase your Hostinger Business Email mailbox storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"335\" data-end=\"553\">When you upgrade a Hostinger Business Email plan, the storage of all mailboxes is increased at once.<br data-start=\"800\" data-end=\"803\">If you only need additional storage for one or a few mailboxes, you can use the <strong data-start=\"883\" data-end=\"910\">Hostinger Email Storage Add-on<\/strong> instead.<\/p><p data-start=\"555\" data-end=\"672\">The add-on allows you to purchase extra storage and assign it to specific mailboxes under the same domain.<\/p><h2 data-start=\"674\" data-end=\"693\" id=\"h-how-the-hostinger-email-storage-add-on-works\">How the Hostinger Email Storage Add-on works<\/h2><p>The Flexible Storage Add-on is available for the following email plans:<\/p><ul>\n<li>Business Starter<\/li>\n<li>Business Premium<\/li>\n<\/ul><p>It can be purchased once per domain and follows the same renewal cycle as your email plan. Payment is made upfront.<\/p><p>You can distribute the additional storage across your mailboxes as needed.<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\">\n<div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\">The Flexible Storage Add-on is not available for Free Email plans. To increase storage for Free Email, you need to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5505897-how-to-upgrade-a-hostinger-email-plan\/\">upgrade<\/a> all mailboxes to a Business Email plan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><h2 id=\"h_c84781e20c\">How to get the Hostinger Email Storage Add-on<\/h2><p data-start=\"1800\" data-end=\"1834\">To buy additional mailbox storage:<\/p><ol>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/hpanel.hostinger.com\/emails\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Email<\/a> section of hPanel and click on <strong>Manage<\/strong> next to the email service you want to expand<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">From the left-hand menu, select <strong>Mailboxes<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">In the <strong>Get extra mailbox storage<\/strong> section, select the preferred package: 30GB or 50GB<strong><br>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7636\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/01\/email-addon-storage.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/01\/email-addon-storage.png 980w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/01\/email-addon-storage-300x74.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/01\/email-addon-storage-768x189.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Complete the payment<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol><p>Once the payment is completed, the add-on becomes available for allocation.<\/p><h2 id=\"h_16831a1622\">How to manage add-on storage<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">After purchasing the Flexible Storage Add-on, the available storage and current usage are shown on the <strong>Mailboxes<\/strong> page.<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7638\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/01\/extra-storage-usage.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"542\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/01\/extra-storage-usage.png 542w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/01\/extra-storage-usage-300x133.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">To assign extra storage to a mailbox:<\/p><ol>\n<li>Open Email <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&rarr; <\/span><strong>Mailboxes<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Locate the mailbox you want to modify<\/li>\n<li>Select options (<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8942;)<\/span>&nbsp;<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&rarr; <strong>Manage storage<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Use the <strong>&ndash;<\/strong> and <strong>+<\/strong> buttons to change the allocated storage in 1GB increments and click on <strong>Update storage<\/strong> to confirm<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7637\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/01\/manage-mailbox-storage.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/01\/manage-mailbox-storage.png 620w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/01\/manage-mailbox-storage-300x250.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ol><p>You can use the same steps to reduce the allocated storage. Any freed add-on storage can be reassigned to another mailbox under the same domain.<\/p><p id=\"h_c8b46f58d6\"><strong>Notes<\/strong><\/p><ul>\n<li>A mailbox cannot have reduced storage below the base storage from the plan or have a total size greater than 100GB<\/li>\n<li>Storage can only be allocated within the domain where the add-on was purchased<\/li>\n<li>Additional storage is non-refundable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expand your mailbox storage with a flexible email storage add-on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hostinger-email-management"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/10627422-how-to-increase-your-mailbox-storage-with-hostinger-email-storage-add-on\/","default":1}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7643,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/7643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}