A larger package and more disk space

Has your VPS become too small? Then choose a larger package. Your data and your IP addresses stay as they are.

Choosing a larger package

You change your package via My Products, just as with other products. You can read how in Changing your package (upgrade or downgrade). To find out which package suits you, see Which VPS package suits me?.

After the change, your VPS gets the new processor cores and the new memory, and the virtual disk becomes larger. If your VPS is running, it restarts once automatically for this. You'll see the change in the Log tab as Change package.

Please note: A disk cannot be made smaller. So you cannot move to a package with less storage.

Is the extra space already there?

If you installed your VPS via the VPS screen, the system (cloud-init) automatically enlarges the partition and the file system when it starts up. Check it:

anna@web1:~$ df -h /
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1        79G  6.1G   70G   9% /

If you don't see the new size yet, restart once more. If that doesn't help, or if you installed the system yourself (with LVM), follow the steps with growpart and resize2fs or xfs_growfs in Increasing the disk space of your VPS. Make a snapshot first.

First check where the space is going

If your disk is full, first check what is taking up so much space. It's often log files, old Docker images or backups on the server itself. See Disk full, memory full or slow.