{"id":958,"date":"2022-04-06T09:51:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T09:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2022\/04\/06\/6121051-how-to-boost-your-hosting-plan-in-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T09:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T09:33:16","slug":"6121051-how-to-boost-your-hosting-plan-in-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/6121051-how-to-boost-your-hosting-plan-in-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to boost your hosting plan in Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"207\" data-end=\"288\">Boost your hosting plan in Hostinger to get the performance of a higher plan for 24 hours, free once per month, from the <strong>Resources Usage<\/strong> section of Hostinger dashboard. Common reasons to boost your hosting plan include:<\/p><ul>\n<li data-start=\"207\" data-end=\"288\">A temporary increase in website traffic<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"207\" data-end=\"288\">Importing large amounts of data<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"207\" data-end=\"288\">Performing a full website update<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"207\" data-end=\"288\">Testing a higher hosting plan without committing to an upgrade<\/li>\n<\/ul><p>In these cases, you can use the <strong data-start=\"507\" data-end=\"516\">boost<\/strong> option. Boosting temporarily increases your plan&rsquo;s capacity for 24 hours, giving you the performance of a higher plan. This helps you complete tasks faster and reduces the risk of errors caused by <a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-resource-limits\" href=\"\/support\/3417446-how-to-fix-the-503-error-at-hostinger\/\">resource limits<\/a>.<\/p><h2 data-start=\"475\" data-end=\"732\" id=\"h-how-to-activate-a-free-boost\">How to activate a free boost<\/h2><p data-start=\"772\" data-end=\"802\">Go to <a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-websites\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hpanel.hostinger.com\/websites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Websites<\/a> &rarr; <strong>Manage site <\/strong>and open <strong data-start=\"832\" data-end=\"850\">Resources Usage <\/strong>in the left sidebar.<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2022\/04\/9638a5be-d782-434e-9e84-31f0aef1f168.jpg\/public\" alt=\"Hosting sidebar with Resources Usage highlighted under Hosting menu\" data-media-id=\"3879\"><\/div><p data-start=\"857\" data-end=\"906\">At the top of the section, click <strong data-start=\"890\" data-end=\"903\">Boost resources<\/strong>.<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2022\/04\/c728654c-6267-4931-ace9-daff6e0526ad.jpg\/public\" alt=\"Business Web Hosting dashboard with Boost resources button highlighted\" data-media-id=\"3883\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">The details of your current hosting plan and the boosted plan will be displayed. Click <strong>Boost<\/strong> to activate.<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2022\/04\/b00e2094-3817-496c-b14b-30cbe8899442.jpg\/public\" alt=\"Boost button in Hostinger hosting plan boost dialog\" data-media-id=\"3884\"><\/div><p data-start=\"1012\" data-end=\"1108\">Once active, the <strong>Resource boosting is on<\/strong> will appear in the <strong data-start=\"1082\" data-end=\"1097\">Order usage<\/strong> section.<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24570\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/11\/2026-11-04_16-32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1149\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/11\/2026-11-04_16-32.png 1149w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/11\/2026-11-04_16-32-300x82.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/11\/2026-11-04_16-32-1024x281.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/11\/2026-11-04_16-32-768x211.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1149px) 100vw, 1149px\" \/><\/div><p data-start=\"1110\" data-end=\"1275\">You can now carry out the required tasks or prepare for increased traffic. If your website consistently needs more resources, consider <a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-upgrading-your-hosting-plan\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/1583459-how-to-upgrade-a-hosting-plan-at-hostinger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">upgrading your hosting plan<\/a>, or lower its resource usage by following <a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-how-to-optimize-your-website-to-make-it-load-faster-at-hosti\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583325-how-to-optimize-your-website-to-make-it-load-faster-at-hostinger\/\">How to optimize your website to make it load faster at Hostinger<\/a>.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>NOTES<\/b><\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Free boosting can be activated once per month. The option will be enabled again after one month has passed since the last boost<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Free boosting is not available for Cloud Enterprise Plus plans<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boost your Hostinger hosting plan for free once a month to get a higher plan\u2019s performance for 24 hours during traffic spikes or large updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_content_updated_date":"","include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-website-optimization"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/6121051-how-to-boost-your-hosting-plan-in-hostinger","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/6121051-como-aumentar-la-potencia-del-plan-de-hosting-en-hostinger","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/6121051-comment-booster-votre-hebergement-chez-hostinger","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/6121051-bagaimana-cara-boost-hosting-di-hostinger","default":0},{"locale":"pt-BR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/6121051-como-turbinar-seu-plano-de-hospedagem-na-hostinger","default":0},{"locale":"uk-UA","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ua\/support\/6121051-\u044f\u043a-\u043f\u0456\u0434\u0441\u0438\u043b\u0438\u0442\u0438-\u0441\u0432\u0456\u0439-\u0445\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438\u043d\u0433-\u0442\u0430\u0440\u0438\u0444-\u043d\u0430-hostinger","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","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=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24571,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions\/24571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}