{"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":"2026-01-19T08:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T08:14:18","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 <b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/vps-hosting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VPS<\/a><\/b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/vps-hosting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><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><p class=\"no-margin\">To change the plan, open the VPS section and on the ellipsis button (&#8943;) next to the server in question, and click on <b>Upgrade<\/b>.<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/02\/a88dd37c-b30b-4ac3-bea7-8c046595fe42.jpg\"><\/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 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-PT","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----vps--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":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7412,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions\/7412"}],"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}]}}