Hosting

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What is hosting?

Hosting simply means putting your project on the internet so other people can visit it as a website. When you “publish” a project, Bolt takes the files you’ve created and makes them available at a live web address anyone can open in their browser. Bolt hosting lets you publish your project to a live URL in seconds, with a free .bolt.host domain included. No third-party account is required: Bolt handles everything.

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Who can use Bolt hosting?

All Bolt users, both Free and Pro, can publish their projects to a .bolt.host domain, although custom domains are only available for Pro users.

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Publish your project with Bolt hosting

Every project created in Bolt is eligible for free bolt.host hosting. No setup required! To publish your project, follow the steps below:

1. Click Publish in the top-right corner of your screen.
2. Click the second Publish button that appears.
3. Wait about a minute for Bolt to deploy your site.
4. Click the link that appears in the chat window to open your site in a new browser tab.
5. (Optional) Attach a custom domain if you’re on a Pro plan.

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Unpublish a project with Bolt hosting

Want to take down a site you’ve published with Bolt hosting? No problem, just follow these steps:

1. Click the gear icon near the top-right of your screen to open Project settings.
2. Click Domains & hosting.
3. Click the red Unpublish text.
4. Confirm by clicking Unpublish again.

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Bolt hosting plans

Bolt offers two base levels of hosting:

• Free – Up to 10 GB bandwidth + 333,333 requests per month, with a hard limit on traffic.
• Pro – Up to 30 GB bandwidth + 1 million requests per month, with the ability to pay as you go to increase traffic capacity.

Bandwidth refers to the total amount of data your site transmits to visitors. Requests are the number of times someone loads a page or visits your site. The Free plan typically supports around 10,000–15,000 monthly visits, depending on the size and complexity of your site. The Pro plan is better suited for production sites, landing pages, or growing products, and can often support 100,000+ visits per month for most use cases. These limits apply to your Bolt account as a whole, not to individual projects. If you publish multiple sites, they share the same monthly bandwidth and request allowance. Actual numbers will vary depending on page size, with image-heavy sites using more bandwidth.

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Increase hosting limits

Free plan sites stop serving content once they hit their monthly data limits. When that happens, they stay offline until usage resets at the start of the next billing cycle. As a Pro plan user, you have the option to keep your sites online by using pay-as-you-go data. This lets you automatically purchase additional bandwidth and requests beyond your monthly hosting limit, up to a spending cap you set in your dashboard. Once the cap is reached, the site will pause until your usage resets. This way, you can handle sudden traffic spikes or seasonal surges while keeping your budget in control. To change your hosting limits, follow these steps:

1. Click the gear icon in the upper-right of your screen to open Project Settings.
2. Click Cloud.
3. Click Change spending limit.
4. Enter your desired spending limit.
5. Click Save.

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Made in Bolt badge

On the Free plan, projects display a Made in Bolt badge in both preview and published sites. Upgrading to any paid plan removes the badge on your next site update and the next preview refresh. Note that changes may take a few minutes to appear due to caching.

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Analytics

Projects published to Bolt Hosting on a paid plan include built-in analytics to let you view traffic to your published site. To view your analytics, follow these steps:

1. Click the gear icon near the top-right of your screen to open Project settings.
2. Click Analytics in the left menu.

You can track unique visitors, pageviews, top pages, and bandwidth usage. You can also see top traffic sources, visitor locations, and a list of top “not found” (404) pages, which helps you know when people are trying to visit pages that don’t exist. Filtering analytic data You can view data up to the last 30 days. Use the Day, Week, or Month buttons in the top-right of the Analytics view to change the timeframe.

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Using third-party analytics

You can add extra analytics to your site with services like Google Analytics or Matomo by embedding their tracking code. In Bolt, you can either switch to Code view and paste the code in the desired location yourself or use the chatbox to prompt Bolt to add it for you. Check your analytics provider’s documentation for tips on where to place the code and best practices.

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SEO Boost

SEO Boosting creates a ready-to-go HTML version of each page ahead of time. When search engines visit your site, they get the full page instantly, making it easier to index your site and show it in search results. SEO boost means your pages will load faster for visitors and be easier for search engines to understand. To enable SEO Boost on your site, follow the steps below:

1. Click the gear icon in the upper-right of your screen.
2. Click Domains & hosting.
3. Click Enable SEO Boost.

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Publishing and managing projects on Netlify hosting

Before the introduction of Bolt hosting on August 14, 2025, all Bolt projects were published to Netlify. If your current projects are published to Netlify, or you’d like to publish new projects to Netlify, see the following resources:

• How to manage projects published to Netlify before August 14, 2025
• How to publish new projects to Netlify instead of Bolt hosting
• How to switch from Netlify to Bolt hosting
• How to unpublish a site published to Netlify

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Hosting FAQs and troubleshooting