up_the_irons: So should I just go ahead and reassign my IP now or should I wait until you've shrunk it back to a /30? is it possible to upgrade VPS nodes online, or does that require a manual dump of files from your existing VPS to a new one? upgrade. like more mem, more cpu, more disk? typically they require arpnetworks charging your card, changing some settings, and you doing a full poweroff and startup in that order ;-) ah ok thanks, was hoping disk volumes could dynamically grow as that tends to be the first bottleneck i hit :) but that process ain't too bad - cheers! make sure you know how to handle disk size growth in your os of choice will most likely be using zfs+freebsd - so i should have that aspect covered it's just for a personal mail/web/shell box - so a reboot is def not the end of the world