How to Destroy a Vultr Bare Metal Instance

1 min readUpdated 4 November 2026

Permanently delete a Vultr Bare Metal server and its public IP. Keep a backup or snapshot, since this cannot be undone.

Destroying an instance removes the public IP address and deletes the server from your Vultr account. You cannot reverse this action, and you cannot recover the instance data. Back up all important files from the server before you destroy it.

Follow this guide to destroy a Vultr Bare Metal instance using the Vultr Console, API, CLI, or Terraform.

Navigate to Compute and click Instances.
Click your target Bare Metal instance to open its management page.
Click the Server Destroy icon in the top-right corner of the management page.
Select Yes, destroy this server in the confirmation prompt and click Destroy Server to destroy the instance.

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