Downgrade Plan - From 10$ back to 5$ a month plan, can this be done?

I recently wrote a tutorial with instructions on how to downgrade/downsize droplets. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-downgrade-digitalocean-droplets

Because developers can’t develop everything in the world all at once. The voting gives the developers an insight as to what their customers want/need and subsequently are able to give the project a priority.

It’s a nightmare on Digital Ocean. But easy thing on RamNode. That’s why I’m switching to them.

Nightmare of downgrading Digitalocean droplet: http://www.joe0.com/2014/09/11/nightmare-of-downgrading-digitalocean-droplet/

Was there ever an answer to the above question? “Cannot create a droplet with a smaller disk (20GB) than the image (40GB).”

I am trying to downgrade a server to a smaller instance and I am receiving the same message… The image I have is only using 4GB of the instances space.

@matthew: You can downgrade you droplet size. Unfortunately, it is slightly more involved than using the “Fast Upgrade” feature. If you take a snapshot of your droplet, you can restore it using any size plan.

Downgrading should be an option a long as the used hard drive storage is small enough to make downgrading possible. It’s possible to resize partitions so why not allow this on DigitalOcean droplets. This is a must needed feature.

why must we vote for that ?

Unfortunately, that option is not available “yet.” You can help bring it to fruition by voting for it on DigitalOcean’s Customer Feedback Forum: <a href=“http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-ocean/suggestions/4074700-downgrade-option-not-just-upgrade”>downgrade option, not just upgrade</a>.

You would need to create a snapshot of the droplet, then destroy it and create a new $5 droplet based off the snapshot you just took.