VPS

Upgrades and extras

Give your VPS more room when it needs it: move it to a bigger plan, or add vCores, RAM, disk or IP addresses on top of the plan it is on. You can pick extras when you order, or add them later from the VPS's page in the Portal.

What you can add #

The price of each is shown next to it when you order and on the Plan & extras tab. Each is added to your monthly price.

Add more, or move to a bigger plan #

1. Open your VPS in the Portal and go to the Plan & extras tab.
2. Pick a bigger plan, or more of any extra. The page shows what it costs before you confirm.
3. You pay now for the rest of the month you have already paid for. From your next renewal, the new monthly price applies.
4. Once the payment arrives, your VPS shuts down, gets its new size and starts again. This takes a minute or two.

Nothing on your disk is erased. A bigger disk is ready to use once the VPS has started again.

Take something off, or move back down #

You can take off extra vCores, RAM and IPs, or move back down to the plan you first ordered. The change is made at the end of the month you have paid for, and your next invoice is at the lower price. The rest of this month is not refunded.

A disk cannot be made smaller, so:

• Extra disk cannot be taken off once it is added.
• If you move back down from a bigger plan, you keep its disk. The space beyond your first plan's disk becomes extra disk, at the extra disk price.

Changed your mind? On the Plan & extras tab, press Keep it as it is before the change date. Once your renewal is paid at the lower price, the change is final, and you can change your VPS again after the change date.

Use an extra IP #

Each extra IP is added to your VPS as a network card of its own (eth1, eth2 and so on), with the address already on it. Your main address on eth0 keeps the way out to the internet. For replies to traffic on the extra IP to go back out the same card, add a small routing rule once.

On Ubuntu or Debian, make a file called /etc/netplan/60-extra-ip.yaml. Use your extra IP in place of 203.0.113.10:

network:
  version: 2
  ethernets:
    eth1:
      routes:
        - to: 0.0.0.0/0
          via: 100.64.0.1
          on-link: true
          table: 101
      routing-policy:
        - from: 203.0.113.10
          table: 101

Then apply it:

sudo netplan apply

For a second extra IP, add eth2 the same way with table 102. Your extra IPs are listed on the VPS's Overview tab.