Rescale your Hetzner VPS and save money
I've been using a Hetzner VPS for a few years now, and it's a great service. It is the server this website runs on.
I was on the Hetzner CPX21 plan. Meaning I got 4GB RAM, 80GB storage and 3 available cores.
But the time had come where I needed a bit more RAM and I noticed there were new plans, cheaper and with more RAM.
But spinning up a new VPS and rebuilding everything was not something I had time for.
But Hetzner makes it super-easy to switch plans.
It's called rescalingand it's perfectly well explained in your customer portal. That is, if you know what to look for. I had never bothered to check this tab:
Rescale tab from Hetzner customer portal
By switching from CPX21 to the CX33 plan I got double the RAM, one extra core for ~3 EUR less per month.
How?
So:
- Make a backup (you never know)
- Shut down your VPS
- Go to the Rescale tab and pick and new plan
- Rescale
- That's it
It only took a few minutes!
Referrral code
If you feel inclined you can use my referral code, you get 20 EUR and I get 10 EUR. Great!
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