How to Shutdown Your VPS Forcefully or Gracefully Using SolusVM

How to Shutdown Your VPS Forcefully or Gracefully Using SolusVM

By: ZebraHost

You can shutdown your VPS in two ways - forcefully or gracefully, using SolusVM.

How to Gracefully Shutdown Your VPS via SolusVM

  1. Login to your SolusVM Control Panel.

  2. If you have multiple VPS, select the appropriate one.

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  3. Scroll down and you will see a Shutdown option. Click it.

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  4. It will show a confirmation window. Click on Yes.

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It may take a few seconds to a minute to shutdown. if the VPS shuts down, you will receive a message notifying you.

for forceful shutdown, you can click the Power Off option in SolusVM.

How to Shutdown Your VPS via the Command Line

(This option is similar to pulling the power cord from your computer and there is a chance of data loss as a result.)

  1. Login to your SSH client.
  2. Enter the command poweroff.

Once you execute this command, your VPS will shut down quickly.