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Resized droplet, Can I get the storage I am paying for?

Posted March 15, 2013 12.4k views
I resized my droplet yesterday from the $5 to $10 plan. The $10 plan comes with 30GB of storage. Is there a way I can extend my droplets drive to 30GB (without purposefully wiping it, of course)?
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alax89 July 3, 2014

Love paying for things that I don’t get. It’s been almost a year and a half and no progress on what seems like a simple feature. One of the primary reasons I signed up with Digital Ocean is that I could upgrade my droplet as I needed resources. Meanwhile, I’ll be looking for a better host.

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  • kamaln7 July 3, 2014

    You can snapshot your droplet, destroy it, and re-create it so your disk is correctly resized. This way you will get what you are paying for :)

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  • david479228 January 6, 2015

    People on this thread are not stupid. We all know that’s an “option,” but you can’t seriously think that’s a legitimate option for a truly serious company. Pretty much every other hosting solution has this “feature.”

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Christopherhaag November 28, 2014

I’ve migrated to www.linode.com . they offer this feature! recommend taking a look for anyone disappointed with Digitaloceans progress and their obvious lack of customer support (You can snapshot your droplet, destroy it, and re-create it so your disk is correctly resized. This way you will get what you are paying for :))

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moisey March 15, 2013
The migrate resize feature which resizes the drive should be available next week which will extend the drive and update your available space.
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micah March 20, 2013
you can also make a snapshot, destroy your current droplet, and rebuild it with the image at the larger size. It only takes a few minutes and it should keep the same IP address. I've done it successfully several times to deal with this until DO gets the new feature in place.
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TheClarkster March 31, 2013
Raiyu, you mentioned the migrate resize feature should be available by now. Do you have any updates on the progress of that feature?

Thanks!
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richardmarkj June 13, 2013
I'd also like to hear about this.

Thanks.
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kamaln7 June 14, 2013
Migrate-resize will be enabled soon but there are a few things on the roadmap of higher priority than migrate-resize. Meanwhile, you can take a snapshot of your droplet and spin up a larger droplet off of that snapshot.
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gyorgy.chityil July 5, 2013
"you can also make a snapshot, destroy your current droplet"
A snapshot is tied to a droplet it seems. I am unable to import a snapshot into another droplet.
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kamaln7 July 5, 2013
@gyorgy.chityil: Snapshots aren't tied to droplets, your snapshots can be found under the 'Images' tab while creating a new droplet.
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gyorgy.chityil July 5, 2013
Thx, yep just found another thread on this :) https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/restore-snapshot-after-destroying-a-droplet
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