Move your VPS to a larger plan
Move your VPS to a plan with more CPU, memory and disk from the client area, without reinstalling and keeping your IP and data.
You can move your VPS to a larger plan yourself from the client area. No reinstall is needed: the server keeps its IP address, operating system and data.
VPS plans
Every plan includes 1 IPv4 address and a 150 Mbps connection.
| Plan | vCPU | RAM | SSD disk |
|---|---|---|---|
| CR Tiny | 1 | 1 GB | 15 GB |
| CR Small | 2 | 2 GB | 30 GB |
| CR Medium | 4 | 4 GB | 45 GB |
| CR Large | 6 | 8 GB | 80 GB |
| CR XLarge | 8 | 12 GB | 120 GB |
| CR XXLarge | 12 | 16 GB | 180 GB |
Current prices and the quarterly, semi-annual and annual discounts are on Virtual Private Servers. Prices exclude tax; if VAT (13%) applies to your account, the summary shows it before you confirm.
Change your plan
- Sign in at clients.crservers.com.
- In the side menu, under Your services, click Virtual Private Servers, then Manage next to your VPS.
- In Server Details, open the ⋮ button and choose Upgrade. The Upgrade / Downgrade page opens.
- Under Upgrade package, pick the new plan in Upgrade / Downgrade to: and the billing cycle. The list only shows plans larger than yours. Click Continue. If you already have CR XXLarge, the list is empty: you can add disk or IP addresses under Resource upgrades, or message us to look at a dedicated server.
- Check the Change plan summary: it shows your current plan, the new plan with its monthly price, and what You pay today.
- Choose the payment method and click Submit. The client area creates the invoice and emails it to you. Pay it online or with the method you chose.
Once the invoice is paid, the new plan is applied. If you don't see the new resources in Server Details by the end of the business day, message us.
What to expect
- You only pay the difference. You pay today is the proportional difference for the days left until your next renewal. From that date you pay the new plan's price. If you have an unpaid renewal invoice, pay it too: the amount assumes your current cycle is paid.
- The VPS restarts on its own. When the change is applied, the disk grows and the VPS restarts automatically. Connections drop while the server boots again.
- Your IP and data stay the same. There is no migration and no reinstall.
Add disk or IP addresses
The same page has Resource upgrades, to add to any plan:
- Additional IPv4 Addresses: up to 3 extra IPv4 addresses, at $7.50 a month each.
- Additional SSD Storage: up to 100 GB of extra SSD, in 10 GB steps, at $0.50 per GB a month. It is added to the VPS disk.
Prices exclude tax. As with a plan change, you see the amount before you confirm, an invoice is created and, when a disk change is applied, the VPS restarts and you then need to extend the partition.
Extra disk can only go up: the control doesn't go below the value you already have. To move to less disk, see Move to a smaller plan.
Extend the partition after the change
The virtual disk grows, but the operating system may keep seeing the old size until you extend the partition. Check over SSH with:
lsblk
df -h /
If lsblk shows the larger disk but df -h / shows the old size, extend the partition and the file system. Take a backup before you change partitions. In the examples, replace /dev/sda and the partition number with what lsblk shows.
Plain partition with ext4 (Ubuntu or Debian):
sudo apt install cloud-guest-utils
sudo growpart /dev/sda 1
sudo resize2fs /dev/sda1
Plain partition with XFS (Rocky Linux or AlmaLinux, for example): after growpart, use sudo xfs_growfs / instead of resize2fs.
With LVM (when lsblk shows the system inside an lvm volume): grow the partition with growpart, then the physical and logical volumes:
sudo growpart /dev/sda 3
sudo pvresize /dev/sda3
sudo lvextend -r -l +100%FREE /dev/mapper/VOLUME-NAME
If you would rather have us review it with you, open a ticket.
Move to a smaller plan
A VPS disk cannot be shrunk without risking data loss. Moving to a plan with less disk needs a new VPS and moving your data. Open a ticket and we will help you plan it.
Need help?
If you aren't sure which plan to pick or would rather have us place the order for you, message us on WhatsApp, call us or open a ticket with your VPS hostname or IP.