At any point you can resize your server in the control panel. This process is very simple. You first select the server you wish to resize from your control panel. On the overview page for that server, there is a “resize server” link:



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Once you click the resize server link, you then pick which server you want to resize too. You can either downsize or upsize the server. WIth Rackspace Cloud Servers, your data is persistent as well as the IP. This is one of the key differences currently between Rackspace Cloud Servers vs. Amazon’s EC2 offering. The resizing process can take as little as 5 minutes and sometimes up to 30, but it all depends on how much data you have. The server is not down this entire time. Instead, its only down towards the end of the resizing process to reboot the server and complete this process.