Bandwidth -based plans add flexibility to hosting at Kinsta

Kinsta acknowledges that different websites have different traffic patterns. So now, in addition to our visitors -based plans, we are introducing a bandwidth -based options; We want to offer customers more flexibility in how their hosting is measured, so that they can choose the model that best suits their needs.

Kinsta customers can give up or bandwidth-based plans when creating new hosting accounts and even changing the way in which existing plans are measured. With this update from Kinsta’s WordPress -Hosting -Service, users can choose the approach that offers the best value for the types of websites they serve.

To keep things simple, we have created a bandwidth-based range on equivalent format for every standard plan that was previously only measured by visits. The options make it easy to see what you get for the same price.

Let’s look:

Visiting versus bandwidth: What is the difference?

Now that you can choose a hosting plan that has passed by total visits or the amount of server band width that your plan requires every month, it might be more important than ever to understand the difference between the two.

The Number is the sum of the unique IP addresses that are seen every 24-hour period. The measurement includes visits to your WordPress sites hosted on Kinsta’s servers, as well as those who have access to your content via the Kinsta CDN and Edge Cache, which are part of our CloudFlare integration.

We follow visits to all the creation environments and report them through analysis within the Mykinsta dashboard. However, only visits to your live environments are counted for billing purposes. We also do our best to eliminate from visiting counts known “bone” user agents.

Total Serverband width Is the amount of data (measured in Bytes) that your WordPress sites send in response to requests. It is important that this song does not contain any content that is operated by CDN or Edge Cache.

The data sent by your WordPress sites include HTML and usually CSS -Stylehets, JavaScript files and media such as images. Kinsta’s edge cache can intervene to operate the HTML, and a CDN can handle most of the work when it comes to static assets such as the style sheets, JavaScript files and images.

As with visits, we do not count bandwidth that is used by collecting sites and we try to filter the reactions to well -known bots.

Regardless of the hosting plan that you have selected, you can view website visits and bandwidth use in Mykinnsta.

For billing purposes, visits and bandwidth are aggregated for all sites within a hosting plan, so the most important usage given username > Business institutions > Analysis > Sources:

So what’s wrong with counting website -visits?

There is nothing wrong with the use of visits as a size for website activity. For many website operators, visit much more about the success of their websites than the rough bandwidth that is used.

However, website owners who are hosted in Kinsta and elsewhere are increasingly reporting, however, growth in visiting numbers that do not seem to be balanced due to similar increase in bandwidth. Some experts have suggested that a dramatic increase in bots that scrape the web to nourish the large language models (LLMS) of artificial intelligence services, partly the fault.

In 2025 Bad bone reportImperva noted that automated activities were good for more than half (51%) of all web traffic in 2024. This growth, the company said, was partly due to the requirements of LLMS. In addition, the report said, 37% of the web traffic can be attributed to ‘bad bots’. And to make it even worse, bad bots are increasingly being driven by AI itself, according to Imperva.

In some cases, this bone traffic can explain a lot of ‘visits’ while they consume relatively small bandwidth.

Visit versus bandwidth: what is the best for you?

The vast majority of Kinsta’s customers has never surpassed the visit limit of their current hosting plans. Many have seen little evidence of the ‘bad bone’ activity described above.

However, customers who have surpassed their visitor quotas for hosting plans at Kinsta have received notifications such as those in this e -mail:

We send notifications with 80% and 100% use, and again when you exceed the use of your plan by 10% (as shown above above). After the limit of the visit has been reached, we will keep your site running, but we will charge an overrun of 50 cents per 1,000 visits.