{"id":1581,"date":"2019-02-08T10:35:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T10:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2019\/02\/08\/1583229-how-to-upgrade-a-vps-server-at-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T06:25:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T06:25:42","slug":"1583229-how-to-upgrade-a-vps-server-at-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583229-how-to-upgrade-a-vps-server-at-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to upgrade a VPS server at Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">Here at Hostinger, we offer a variety of <a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-vps-plans\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583582-how-and-why-to-purchase-vps-hosting-at-hostinger\/\"><b>VPS<\/b><strong> plans<\/strong><\/a>. As your project grows, you might want to increase the resources your server has &#8210; and it can be easily done with an upgrade.<\/p><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">Individual resources (such as disk space or RAM) can&rsquo;t be upgraded separately &mdash; upgrading the entire VPS plan is required &#128161;<\/div><h2 id=\"h-upgrade-your-vps-plan\">Upgrade your VPS plan<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">To change the plan, open the VPS section and on the more action button (&#8942;) next to the server in question, and click on <b>Upgrade<\/b>.<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12165 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-30_13-40-1024x468.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-30_13-40-1024x468.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-30_13-40-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-30_13-40-768x351.png 768w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-30_13-40-1536x702.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-30_13-40.png 1986w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Select your <b>new plan and duration<\/b>, and proceed with the payment. That&rsquo;s it! Enjoy increased resources and productivity &#128522;<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>NOTES<\/b><\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">The upgrade can take up to 10 minutes to complete.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">All your files and configurations will remain unchanged during the upgrade<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">KVM 8 plans can&rsquo;t be upgraded, as they are the highest tier available. If you need more resources, you can purchase additional VPS plans and set them up to share the load manually.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Upgrades are not available for OpenVZ VPS plans. To upgrade, a <a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-migration-from-openvz-to-kvm\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/10469992-how-to-migrate-your-vps-from-openvz-to-kvm-at-hostinger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">migration from OpenVZ to KVM<\/a> is required.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upgrading your VPS to a more powerful one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vps-management"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583229-how-to-upgrade-a-vps-server-at-hostinger","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/1583229-como-mejorar-tu-servidor-vps-en-hostinger","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/1583229-comment-mettre-a-niveau-votre-serveur-vps-chez-hostinger","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/1583229-cara-upgrade-server-vps-di-hostinger","default":0},{"locale":"pt-BR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/1583229-como-fazer-o-upgrade-do-seu-servidor-vps-na-hostinger","default":0},{"locale":"uk-UA","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ua\/support\/1583229-\u044f\u043a-\u0437\u043c\u0456\u043d\u0438\u0442\u0438-\u0442\u0430\u0440\u0438\u0444-vps-\u0445\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438\u043d\u0433\u0443-hostinger","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14655,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions\/14655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}