Add-On Blocks: Expand Your Plan Limits and Save
Pre-pay for extra storage or monthly visits at a discount, and avoid overage charges entirely.
What Are Add-On Blocks?
Every plan comes with a set amount of storage and monthly visits. If you need more room but a bigger plan feels like overkill, add-on blocks are the middle ground.
Add-on blocks increase your storage or visitor limits in fixed increments, billed as part of your subscription. They cost less than overage charges, and you can add or remove them anytime.
Two Types of Blocks
- Storage Blocks: each block adds 10 GB of storage
- Visits Blocks: each block adds 25,000 monthly visits
Blocks attach to a specific plan and raise that plan's limits, shared across the sites on that plan. Buy as many as you need: if your plan includes 10 GB of storage and you add two storage blocks, your effective limit on that plan becomes 30 GB.
Pricing
There are two ways to pay for room beyond your plan, and they're priced differently:
| How you pay | Price per block | When you're charged |
|---|---|---|
| Overage, if you go over without a block | $10 for the month | After the month ends, only for months you went over |
| Add-on block, monthly | $9 a month | Every month with your subscription, until you remove it |
| Add-on block, yearly | $96 a year ($8 a month) | Once a year with your subscription |
The prices are the same for storage blocks (10 GB) and visits blocks (25,000 visits). Overage is charged in whole blocks, so going 2,000 visits over costs the same $10 as going 20,000 over.
Which Is Cheaper for You
A block costs less than overage for the same room: $9 or $8 instead of $10. The difference is that you pay for a block every month, whether you use the room or not, while overage only charges you in the months you actually go over.
- You go over most months: blocks are cheaper. A monthly block saves 10% and a yearly block saves 20%.
- You go over now and then: paying overage in those months is usually cheaper. Going over in two months of the year costs $20 in overage, against $96 to $108 for keeping a block all year.
Managing Your Add-On Blocks
Adding Blocks
- Go to Billing in the sidebar
- Scroll down to Add-ons
- Use the + button to increase the quantity for storage or visits, on the plan you want to raise
- Review the cost and confirm
Blocks raise your limit immediately.
Removing Blocks
Use the minus button to reduce your quantity, then confirm. You get a credit for the unused part of the billing period on your next invoice.
Checking Your Current Blocks
Your active add-on blocks and their effect on your limits show on the Billing page. You can also see your overall usage, including the add-on bonus, on your Websites page.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I mix monthly and yearly blocks?
Blocks follow the billing interval of the plan they're added to. If that plan is monthly, your blocks are billed monthly.
What happens if I remove blocks and go over my limit?
Standard overage charges apply to any usage above your new effective limit at the end of the month.
Do blocks apply to a specific site?
No, but they do apply to a specific plan. Blocks raise the limits on the plan you add them to, shared across every site on that plan.
Who can manage add-on blocks?
The account owner and anyone with Billing access can add or remove blocks. Others can see them but can't make changes.
Will I be charged immediately when adding blocks?
No. The block's cost for the rest of your current billing period, worked out to the day, is added to your next regular invoice. From then on, blocks are part of your plan's invoice.