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title: "Adding and Removing Services in Private Networks | Hostman Docs"
description: "Let's see how you can master VPC service management by learning how to add and remove services with Hostman’s step-by-step guide."
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There are several ways to add a service to a private network.

## Adding Services to VPC

You can add a cloud service to an existing private network:

-   In the **Networks** → **Private Networks** section
-   In a server’s settings
-   When creating a new service

### In "Private Networks"

1.  In the **Networks** → **Private Networks** section click on the network.
    
2.  Click **Add** in the **Services** block.
    
3.  Select **New** or **Existing** depending on whether the service already exists in the dashboard.
    

-   **New**: Select the service type: server, database, or load balancer.
    

![Image16](https://content.hostman.com/assets/f842cd78-331d-44b1-9614-726f15f89108?width=1492&height=842)

You will be redirected to the service creation page, where the required network will already be selected in the **Network** step. 

Complete creating the service. The IP address for the service will be issued automatically.

1.  -   **Existing**: Select the service you want to add to VPC and click **Add**.
        

> [!NOTE]
> Please note that the cloud server's public IP address may be changed.

![Image10](https://content.hostman.com/assets/9672e294-890a-46e1-bc21-8922a33ff97f?width=1494&height=838)

Hostman will start transferring the service to this VPC. Usually, it takes about one minute to transfer 10 GB. After the transfer is completed, the service will be restarted, with the total downtime of 5-10 minutes.

### In Server’s Settings

> [!NOTE]
> The server's public IP address may be changed.

To add a server to a private network: 

1.  Go to **Cloud Servers** and click on the server.
    
2.  Go to the **Network** tab.
    
3.  Click **Enable** next to the **Private network**.
    

![Image4](https://content.hostman.com/assets/a68b1d5c-d239-46d3-bdc8-2ca3f8bba991?width=1487&height=972)

3.  Select an existing network or click **Add Network** to create a new one.
    

-   **New network**: leave the default address range or specify your own. 
    

![Image2](https://content.hostman.com/assets/e9dd32d8-6f83-48ef-8926-f8c05026949c?width=1485&height=842)

-   -   **Existing network**: the server will be issued a private address automatically.
        

![Image14](https://content.hostman.com/assets/b8d25f5d-5192-4fa7-aaf1-69cc343c93d0?width=1489&height=845)

4.  Click **Connect**.
    

Hostman will start transferring the server to the private network. Usually it takes about one minute to transfer 10 GB. 

The server will be on during the transfer. After the transfer is completed, the server will be rebooted with the downtime of 5-10 minutes.

### When Creating a Service

1.  Start creating a new [cloud server](https://hostman.com/cloud-server/), database, load balancer or a Kubernetes cluster.
2.  In the **Network** step, select the private network from the drop-down list.

![Image11](https://content.hostman.com/assets/11120c26-2a80-4c99-9a7f-b312b953428c?width=779&height=500)

3.  Finish creating the service.

The service will be automatically added to this network when created. The private IP address for the service will be issued automatically.

## Removing Services from VPC

> [!NOTE]
> You can only remove **cloud servers** from VPC.
>
> Cloud databases or load balancers cannot be removed from VPC, but can be transferred to another private network.

To remove a server from a private network:

1.  Go to **Cloud Servers** and click on the server.
    
2.  In the **Network** tab, click **Configure** next to **Private network**.
    
3.  Click **Exclude from the network**.
    
4.  Click **Exclude and reboot**.
    

Hostman will start removing the server from this network. Usually it takes about one minute for each 10 GB of disk size.

After the process is completed, the server will be rebooted with downtime of 5-10 minutes. The network interface will be assigned a public IP address.