How to Restart a Vultr Cloud Compute Instance

How to Restart a Vultr Cloud Compute Instance

Learn how to restart your Vultr Cloud Compute instance through the Customer Portal or API.


Restarting an instance performs a hard reboot, stopping all running processes before starting them again. It does not affect the instance’s data or file system and allows application updates or configuration changes that require a reboot to take effect.

Follow this guide to restart a Vultr Cloud Compute instance using the Vultr Customer Portal, API, or CLI.

Vultr Customer Portal

  1. Navigate to Products and click Compute.
  2. Click your target Vultr Cloud Compute instance to open its management page.
  3. Click Server Restart on the top-right navigation menu to restart your server.
  4. Click Restart Server in the confirmation prompt to apply changes.

Vultr API

  1. Send a GET request to the List Instances endpoint and note your target instance’s ID.
    console
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/instances" \
      -X GET \
      -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"
    
  2. Send a POST request to the Reboot Instances endpoint to restart the instance.
    console
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/instances/reboot" \
      -X POST \
      -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}" \
      -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
      --data '{
        "instance_ids" : [
          "instance_id"
        ]
      }'

Vultr CLI

  1. List all available instances and note your target instance’s ID.
    console
    $ vultr-cli instance list
    
  2. Restart the instance.
    console
    $ vultr-cli instance restart <instance_id>

How to Restart a Vultr Cloud Compute Instance Learn how to restart your Vultr Cloud Compute instance through the Customer Portal or API. Restarting an instance performs a hard reboot, stopping all running processes before starting them again. It does not affect the instance’s data or file system and allows…

How to Restart a Vultr Cloud Compute Instance Learn how to restart your Vultr Cloud Compute instance through the Customer Portal or API. Restarting an instance performs a hard reboot, stopping all running processes before starting them again. It does not affect the instance’s data or file system and allows…

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