VPS Management

Power Cycle or Reboot a VPS

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How to power-cyle your VPS

You trigger a power-cycle or reboot of your VPS in the KVM management portal.

How it works

1

Login to your VPS Management Portal

2

Locate your VPS in the Services tab

3

and then click "Shutdown" or "Reboot".  After a shutdown, you can "power on" your VPS again.

What it does

Both the Shutdown and Reboot actions terminate the hypervisor process managing your VPS, while a Reboot initiates a fresh start of your virtual machine with a new hypervisor process right after the process has ended.

Alternative Solution (clean & safe)

Alternatively, you can trigger a "shutdown -h now" or "halt" at the command prompt of your OS, followed by a "power on" through the KVM management portal. This should be the preferred way to cleanly shutdown/reboot your system.





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KVM Power cycle, Reboot




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Updated 04 Oct 2024
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