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The “fast resize” option is limited by the amount of space available on the hypervisor that your droplet is currently on. Unfortunately if there is not enough room, you can not take advantage of that feature. If that is the case, you’ll have to resize via a snapshot.
Got it. This limitation really makes it difficult to create a SAAS solution on DO. We want to give our end user of our SAAS solution individual DO droplets.
I wanted to allow my end users to resize their droplet from the control panel we built around the DO API.
During testing we ran into this fast resizing limitation issue identified above.
The snapshot alternative is even more complex and seems to result in more downtime. As well, there is the minor risk that we could lose the IP address.
I am thinking we may have to make our SAAS upgrade something the end user schedules and maybe we do it manually.
Any recommendations?