Service Plan Scaling

You can scale a service from one supported plan to another.

Scaling Up

Scaling to a larger plan is always supported:

• within the same plan category: for example, from business-8 to business-16
• from one plan category to another: for example, from startup-8 to business-16

You can trigger the scale operation with the update command:

exo dbaas update -z de-fra-1 test-pg --plan startup-4

Updating Database Service "test-pg"...

Scaling Down

Scaling down a service is generally supported on all service types, provided the storage requirements of the lower plan will fit the space currently used within your service.

From one plan category to another, scaling down is generally supported for non-distributed services like pg or mysql, as it will remove one replica from the replica set. For example, scaling down from premium-32 to business-32 will remove one replica only.