How to Reboot a VPS on Schedule?

[Jovani]

Hi there,

I want to know any ways How to Reboot a VPS on Schedule? it should do or not?
for example, I want to reboot my VPS automatically on 12 AM after every 3 using days

is it possible to do that?

 

[ElixantTechnology]

Why would you want to reboot your VPS at all? Not only does this create downtime for the websites that you are hosting (which shows unreliability to your users/customers), but it is completely un-necessary. You could setup a crontab to execute the reboot command, but that brings me back to my initial question... Why?

Hi there,

I want to know any ways How to Reboot a VPS on Schedule? it should do or not?
for example, I want to reboot my VPS automatically on 12 AM after every 3 using days

is it possible to do that?

 

[Hassan]

for this you need read man shutdown and man crontab.

 

[Hostname.club]

Some application like Java will eaten RAM part-by-part, so reboot VPS is something we must do it from a backend.
One of my customer has same request like that.

 

[ElixantTechnology]

ElixantTechnology

Interesting. Are you sure the customer has configured things accurately? It shouldn't be necessary to reboot your server nightly, unless something is going horribly wrong.

 

[Jovani]

Jovani

You said right as my thought
I would like to know how to reboot it automatically daily or weekly on schedule

 

[Hostname.club]

Hostname.club

Our current virtualization is onApp, so we can schedule it by using a custom script from Development Team.
However if you are using OpenVZ/KVM with SolusVM, we must set it another way.
I will try to research how to do it tonight.

 

[Jovani]

Jovani

I am looking forward to see your script how to do that, I'm using both directadmin and cpanel/whm (vps)

 

[ElixantTechnology]

This is very simple -- don't know why you'd have to complicate things.
In SSH type the following command:

sudo crontab -e

Once the file is open, add the following line to it:

@daily root /sbin/shutdown -r now

 

[Jovani]

Jovani

It will work with my Operating System: CentOS 6 64-bit ??

also I want auto reboot VPS every 3 days 1 time at 12:00 AM

 

[Hostname.club]

But if this is a Windows OS?

 

[ElixantTechnology]

Good question, I'm sure this link might help:

[URLnf=https://askleo.com/how-do-i-schedule-a-nightly-reboot-in-windows-8-1/]https://askleo.com/how-do-i-schedule-a-nightly-reboot-in-windows-8-1/[/URLnf]

 

[ElixantTechnology]

I am looking forward to see your script how to do that, I'm using both directadmin and cpanel/whm (vps)

This is very simple -- don't know why you'd have to complicate things.
In SSH type the following command:

sudo crontab -e

Once the file is open, add the following line to it:

@daily root /sbin/shutdown -r now

Jovani, then the above will work for you.

 

[ElixantTechnology]

0 0 */3 * * root /sbin/shutdown -r now

This will be for every 3 days. And this will work on any linux distro.