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# VULTR Instance Upgrade Notes

<p>The performance of my VULTR server has improved without me even noticing.</p>

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<p>The $5 plan has upgraded from 768MB of memory to 1GB, and from 15GB of SSD to 25GB. That's quite an improvement.</p>

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<p>Just to try it out, I upgraded my plan through the Change Plan option, and it was updated with only about 1 minute of downtime, without changing the IP address.</p>

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<p>Note: You cannot downgrade to a lower plan.</p>

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