By johnbent
Is it possible to reduce the size/cost of your managed database once you’ve scaled up to a larger size? We recently increased the size of a managed database and we’re finding we don’t need the level of resources we resized to. Thanks!
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Hi @johnbent,
Alternatively, you can resize the database cluster to the size of your choice using DO API/DOCTL CLI apart from backing up and migrating your data to smaller nodes.
Check the below Community question link that was answered on how to downgrade DB cluster :
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-can-i-downgrade-my-db-cluster
I hope this helps!
Regards, Rajkishore
Hello,
You cannot resize cluster nodes to smaller sizes. To move from a bigger node to a smaller node, create a new cluster with the desired node size and import your data. Refer to below link under limits section:
https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/databases/mysql/#managed-database-cluster-limits
Hope this helps!
Cheers, Sri Charan
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