Finally I created my website and I had some issues and now it working perfectly and I will post a post for all the problems that I face in the coming days. What I want to ask, is how to resize my droplet without losing anything. My website does not having traffic. 0 traffic a day. my visitors come to a time I know it. I need to make my website 2 or 4 gb of ram. for example for 5 hours. and after that back to the 1 ram or 0.50… Thank you for help. I need to resize my droplet from low to high and back to the low.
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Hello there,
You can check our article on How to Resize Droplets
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/how-to/resize/
In certain cases, a disk resize fails to resize the Droplet’s partition or filesystem. If you rerun df -h after a disk resize and the output is unchanged, this usually indicates a problem. Use
gdisk
to get more information:The output looks like this:
Some operating systems, like CentOS, don’t come with gdisk by default. You can either install
gdisk
using the package manager (e.g. sudo yum install gdisk) or use fdisk:The output looks like this:
In both of the above cases, the partition is still 25 GB even though the disk is 50 GB.To resize the partition, use the
growpart
command. In this command, /dev/vda is the name of the disk, separated by a space, and followed by the number of the partition to resize, 1.The command to resize the filesystem depends on the filesystem type. If you don’t know what filesystem you’re using, check with df:
You can see the filesystem type in the second column of the output. The following example output shows the filesystem type is ext4.
For ext3/4 filesystems, use
resize2fs
to resize the filesystem.For XFS, use
xfs_growfs
to resize the filesystem.Hope that this helps!
@Abdo
As of right now, the only way you can automate this would be to use DigitalOcean’s API using either a programming language (your choice) or a combination of bash scripting and
doctl
, a CLI-based interface for the API.API
https://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/v2/
doctl
https://github.com/digitalocean/doctl
For automation to work, you’d have to code your own solution that would check X, Y, Z and then do an action based on the results of said check.
Otherwise, the only solution would be to manually do this from the DigitalOcean Control Panel.