Restart a VPS

How to Restart a VPS Using WHM, SSH, and DirectAdmin

Many users don’t know how to restart a VPS? So today we discuss how you can restart a VPS easily while you are using WHM, SSH, or DirectAdmin. Below step by step, we declare how to restart a VPS.

Restart VPS Using WHM

WHM routines are designed to make server administration tasks quick and easy, so why not use them to restart servers?

  1. Sign in to WHM.
  2. Find the search bar under the WHM logo, then search for the reboot.
  3. Click on Graceful Server Reboot, Graceful Restart.
  4. Press the button Proceed.

Restart VPS Using DirectAdmin

If you are a DirectAdmin control panel user, restarting the server can be done directly from DirectAdmin.

  1. Sign in to DirectAdmin.
  2. Select Admin Tools then Service Monitor.
  3. Press on REBOOT.
  4. Give your password and press again REBOOT.
  5. Look at the Server was Successfully Rebooted the message.

Restart VPS Using SSH

Possibly faster and easier than using a control panel, a VPS or dedicated server can be restarted by connecting to the box via SSH and issuing a one-line command!

First Step: Sign in to the server using SSH (as root).

Second Step: Write The Command: REBOOT (for a graceful restart).

Third Step: To force a restart, change the command to REBOOT   -F. Similar alternative Command: SHUTDOWN   -R.

There have some differences between the shutdown & reboot commands. The shutdown is a run level 0 event versus reboot which is run level 6. Signal differences in hardware may mean that events logged for the two methods will appear differently, but in the real world, most users will see that either/both boxes are restarting, which is the desired effect.

Conclusion

Hopefully, after reading this article we are clear on how to restart a VPS Server. It’s a very simple and easiest system. Thanks for reading this article. If you want to know anything about VPS Restart then please comment below. If you want to know the difference between Linux VPS and Windows VPS then you can read this article.

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