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How to Manage Change the Hostname on a Vultr Bare Metal Instance

Updated on 11 September, 2025

Learn how to change the hostname on your Vultr Bare Metal server to improve system identification and network management.

Changing the default hostname on an instance modifies the default server configuration and reinstalls the operating system.

Follow this guide to change the hostname on a Vultr Bare Metal instance using the Vultr Customer Portal, or Terraform.

  • Vultr Customer Portal
  • Terraform
  1. Navigate to Products and click Compute.
  2. Click your target Bare Metal instance name to open its management page.
  3. Navigate to the Settings tab.
  4. Click Change Hostname on the left navigation menu.
  5. Replace the existing value with your new hostname.
  6. Check the confirmation prompt and click Change Hostname to apply your new hostname changes.

  1. Open your Terraform configuration for the existing Bare Metal instance.

  2. Update the hostname value in the instance resource to the new hostname.

    terraform 
    resource "vultr_bare_metal_server" "bm1" {
    # ...existing fields (region, plan, label, os_id, etc.)

    hostname = "new-hostname"
}

  3. Apply the configuration and observe the following output:

    Apply complete! Resources: 1 added, 0 changed, 1 destroyed.

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