Will resizing disk space on a droplet without changing the IP be possible soon?

December 13, 2013 5.5k views
marcel
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marcel
I know that I can resize using snapshot. But I read a lot of comments such as: 'server in a`dam not available', or users getting another IP. For ram, there is already a resize functionality. Does this guarantee same IP? And is there functionality scheduled to have this same functionality for disk space? For now, I am testing with a site, but will need to expand this soon. I do certainly not want to change the IP adress, since I am using FTP, virtualmin, etc.
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kamaln7 MOD December 13, 2013
For ram, there is already a resize functionality. Does this guarantee same IP?

Yes. It will simply power down your droplet and edit its config on the hypervisor to assign more RAM to it and power it back on.

And is there functionality scheduled to have this same functionality for disk space?

It is on the roadmap however we do not have an ETA yet.
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pablo December 13, 2013
"... since I am using FTP..."

If you care about security, you do not want to be using FTP. See How To Use Filezilla to Transfer and Manage Files Securely on your VPS; or, simply Google the search term ftp security risks.
How To Use Filezilla to Transfer and Manage Files Securely on your VPS
by Pablo Carranza
This article will teach you how to use Filezilla to transfer and manage files securely on your VPS.
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marcel December 18, 2013
Thanks!
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marcel December 18, 2013
One more question: how will a resize be charged, since only my ram has upgraded, what plan will I pay for?

For now I won`t need additional diskspace, so I just used resize to upgrade ram.

Thanks!
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kamaln7 MOD December 19, 2013
You'll be charged the price of the plan you have resized your droplet to, regardless of whether the disk was resized or not.
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daniellekwint March 15, 2014
That is a little bit unfair, you pay for the same plan but you will not get the Disk space that belongs to the plan

I resize from 512 mb ram to 1 GB ram, I pay 10 dollar but not get the 10GB disk extra that belongs to that plan.
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alax89 April 29, 2014
I just did the fast-resize and noticed that I was not allocated the extra space. How do I claim the space that I rightfully pay for?
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asb MOD April 30, 2014
@alax89: The fast resize option increases your RAM and CPU, but doesn't increase the disk size. It is provided as an option for users who want to quickly scale up memory and processing power with extremely minimal down time. If you need to increase disk size as well, take a snapshot of the droplet and create a new one based on it:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-resize-droplets-using-snapshots
How To Resize Droplets Using Snapshots
by Etel Sverdlov
This tutorial covers how to manually migrate droplets between hypervisors by taking a snapshot of the droplet and then spinning it up in a large or smaller size.
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