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During a traffic spike, we scaled up our database to higher plan. Now that traffic has slowed we would like to scale this back.
Is it possible to scale back managed database cluster from the higher plan size to lower plan size?
What is the process for doing so?
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Hi,
At the moment we do not support scaling down of a database cluster from the UI, You can read about limitations here: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/mysql/#limits https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/postgresql/#limits
but you can resize the database cluster to the size of your choice using our API. Please check the below documentation: https://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/v2/#resize-a-database-cluster Also, you could take a backup of your database and import the data into a smaller database. I am including documentation for your review.
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/mysql/how-to/import-databases/ https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/postgresql/how-to/import-databases/
Regards Priyanka
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