One benefit of Vultr's cloud infrastructure is the ability to migrate to a more powerful server as your data and server loads increase. This Quickstart guide explains how to do in-place upgrades and server migration to a new host.
In many cases, the physical host has enough available capacity for you to expand your server instance in-place. In other cases, you may need to do a server migration. This article describes both options.
To perform an in-place upgrade, please follow these steps:
Select the Change Plan menu.
Select the new plan, then click Upgrade.
Your server will restart with the new plan.
The server's IP address will remain the same after an in-place upgrade.
You may need to perform a server migration in some situations:
To perform a server migration:
After completing this process, the new server will receive a new IP address. If your server is configured with a static IP address, please see this guide to return your server to DHCP configuration.