GoDaddy VPS Memory Upgrade

Here is a recent conversation with the GoDaddy Support team. My questions was asking how I would be able to upgrade memory on my machine, since currently I am running 256MB, and when I run a memory bash script on my server, it is telling me that my VPS is using 560 MB of ram, which is 215% of my quota. Unfortunately, if I would like to upgrade memory, I am going to have to move to an entirely new server, and pay $15 a month for an upgrade of 256MB. Thats not the greatest deal I've ever heard of, since it was a pain in the first place setting up the server and getting all software like PHP and MySQL upgraded, and then getting all the domain names and name servers set up correctly. Plus if I run into the same problem of memory load, and want to upgrade in the future, I will be experted to do the same. I am thinking about getting a dedicated server just so I won't have to worry about CPU problems for a while, but the price is pretty steep at $80, which is alow more than my economical VPS which is only costing me $25.

Here is my conversation with the GoDaddy support team, which took about 2 hours to respond, so if you find this post by Google, hopefully it saved you some time instead of having to talk to the Godaddy Support team.

Customer Inquiry

I need to upgrade my memory for the VPS machine. Please inform me on the necessary steps I need to take to get this done.

Thanks,

Tom
TMWilson1@wisc.edu

Dear Tom,

Thank you for contacting Online Support. Unfortunately, you cannot upgrade the memory on your existing virtual dedicated server. You will have to purchase a new virtual dedicated server with RAM accelerator, and cancel the existing server after you have a backup.

Please let us know if we can help you in any other way.

Sincerely,
Server Support

What does the crowd say about that? BOOOOO

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