Resize

Open the machine → Resize tab.

What you can move to

The list shows every plan available for this machine's location and instance family — a General Purpose machine is offered other General Purpose plans, a High Frequency one gets High Frequency plans. Each row shows vCPU, RAM, storage and bandwidth, the monthly and hourly price, and the difference against what you pay today.

Your current plan is greyed out and labelled Current Plan. Plans with more resources are marked Upgrade and can be selected.

Note

Only upgrades can be applied from the panel. Downgrade plans are shown for reference but aren't selectable, because shrinking a disk can't be done safely without knowing what's on it. If you need to move to a smaller plan, open a ticket and support will handle the migration.

Resize the machine

Select the target plan and click Resize, then confirm.

Warning

The machine is automatically restarted during the resize. Expect a few minutes of downtime, and make sure your services are set to start on boot.

While it runs, the machine's status reads Resizing. It returns to Running on the new plan when it's done.

After the resize

• Storage grows on disk, but some operating systems need the filesystem extended to actually use the new space. Check with df -h after the reboot.
• Billing switches to the new hourly rate from the moment the resize completes; the change appears on your next invoice as prorated usage.
• The event is recorded in Activity.

Tip

Before resizing for performance, check Metrics to confirm which resource is actually the bottleneck. A machine that's swapping needs RAM, not vCPUs, and buying the wrong axis costs money without fixing anything.