{"id":20663,"date":"2017-03-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kitty.in.th\/?p=20663"},"modified":"2025-01-01T12:01:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T05:01:29","slug":"vultrs-2-5-month-server-instance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kitty.in.th\/index.php\/2017\/03\/10\/vultrs-2-5-month-server-instance\/","title":{"rendered":"Vultr\u2019s $2.5 \/ month server instance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240412133721\/https:\/\/www.vultr.com\/news\/The-Vultr-Cloud-Is-More-Powerful-Than-Ever\/\">Vultr has recently upgrade all instances<\/a>&nbsp;. While $5\/month has been upgraded from 1 CPU \/ 768 MB \/ 15 GB &nbsp;to 1 CPU \/ 1 GB \/ 25 GB, Vultr also introduced the new smallest server instance \u2013 1 CPU \/ 512 MB \/ 20 GB at $2.5\/month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I have choices: &nbsp;keep paying $5\/month and get an upgraded&nbsp;instance for free, or migrate to the $2.5\/month to cut cost in half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I chose the latter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, Vultr does not allow to downgrade the instance (because disks can only be enlarged). So, I needed to migrate the server. I created a snapshot from the existing 15 GB disk, and&nbsp;deployed an $2.5\/month instance from the snapshot. It took me about 10 minutes to create the&nbsp;snapshot (free), and few more minutes to deploy new instance. Then, I updated DNS record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Things went well. So, finally, I destroyed the $5\/month instance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The result ? &nbsp;You are seeing it right now. This web is running on single&nbsp;$2.5\/month instance :D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vultr has recently upgrade all instances&nbsp;. While $5\/month has been upgraded from 1 CPU \/ 768 MB \/ 15 GB &nbsp;to 1 CPU \/ 1 GB \/ 25 GB, Vultr also introduced the new smallest server instance \u2013 1 CPU \/ 512 MB \/ 20 GB at $2.5\/month. So, I have choices: &nbsp;keep paying $5\/month &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kitty.in.th\/index.php\/2017\/03\/10\/vultrs-2-5-month-server-instance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vultr\u2019s $2.5 \/ month server instance<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[126,335,5],"class_list":["post-20663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-admin","tag-cloud","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitty.in.th\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitty.in.th\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitty.in.th\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitty.in.th\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitty.in.th\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kitty.in.th\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20664,"href":"https:\/\/kitty.in.th\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20663\/revisions\/20664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitty.in.th\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitty.in.th\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitty.in.th\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}