How to Relocate Database Clusters

PostgreSQL is an open source, object-relational database built with a focus on extensibility, data integrity, and speed. Its concurrency support makes it fully ACID compliant, and it supports dynamic loading and catalog-driven operations to let users customize its data types, functions, and more.

Relocating a database cluster changes which DigitalOcean datacenter hosts it. We recommend hosting your DigitalOcean resources in the same datacenter. This minimizes the latency in connections between them and helps improve performance.

To relocate a database cluster from the control panel, select your database cluster from the Databases page. Click the name of the cluster to go to its Overview page, then click the Settings tab.

On the Settings page, in the Cluster datacenter section, click Edit. Select the region and datacenter to which you want to relocate your cluster.

Click Save to begin the relocation process. The time to complete the relocation varies depending on the size of the cluster and its data.