# Any issue setting VPN server replication count to 4 but only attaching 2 hosts?

**URL:** <https://forum.pritunl.com/t/any-issue-setting-vpn-server-replication-count-to-4-but-only-attaching-2-hosts/2947>\
**Category:** Pritunl VPN\
**Tags:** pritunl\
**Created:** [January 7, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.pritunl.com/t/any-issue-setting-vpn-server-replication-count-to-4-but-only-attaching-2-hosts/2947 "2025-01-07T19:00:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![ksquires](https://forum.pritunl.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@ksquires](https://forum.pritunl.com/u/ksquires)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.pritunl.com/t/any-issue-setting-vpn-server-replication-count-to-4-but-only-attaching-2-hosts/2947/1 "2025-01-07T19:00:27Z")

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We’d like to make adding additional hosts in the future as seamless as possible. Would there be any issues setting the VPN Server’s replication count to 4 but only having 2 pritunl hosts attached? My thought is in the future if we needed to expand our host count it would be as simple as attaching an additional host to the VPN server and not take an outage stopping the server to bump up the replication count.

thanks

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**Author:** ![zach](https://forum.pritunl.com/user_avatar/forum.pritunl.com/zach/32/1105_2.png) [@zach](https://forum.pritunl.com/u/zach)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 8:55pm UTC](https://forum.pritunl.com/t/any-issue-setting-vpn-server-replication-count-to-4-but-only-attaching-2-hosts/2947/2 "2025-01-07T20:55:58Z")

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Yes the replication count can be set to a higher number to allow adding replicas without restarting the server.

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**Author:** ![ctrlv7887](https://forum.pritunl.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/e47c2d/32.png) [@ctrlv7887](https://forum.pritunl.com/u/ctrlv7887)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2026, 5:59pm UTC](https://forum.pritunl.com/t/any-issue-setting-vpn-server-replication-count-to-4-but-only-attaching-2-hosts/2947/3 "2026-09-25T17:59:26Z")

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Is this still true? I would love to increase count to add a node without restarting the Server with 4.5yrs of uptime lol. Need to avoid any amount of downtime.

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**Author:** ![zach](https://forum.pritunl.com/user_avatar/forum.pritunl.com/zach/32/1105_2.png) [@zach](https://forum.pritunl.com/u/zach)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2026, 2:43am UTC](https://forum.pritunl.com/t/any-issue-setting-vpn-server-replication-count-to-4-but-only-attaching-2-hosts/2947/4 "2026-09-26T02:43:18Z")

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Changing the replication count and adding or removing hosts in newer versions can now be done without restarting server.