My Droplet running Ubuntu 20.04 and Apache/Wordpress Memory went to 100 (4Gb MEM droplet 2 CPU) followed shortly by the CPU - i tried a sudo reboot but it wont come back up… Also tried from DO Console to reboot or switch droplet off but it replies with error cannot shut down droplet
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Hello there,
Have you tried to Power Cycle the droplet via your DigitalOcean account? If this does not help you can reach out to our support team and they will help you to regain access to your droplet.
Regards
Hey @logicaldynamix,
Indeed as already mentioned, I would also suggest trying to power cycle the Droplet.
If this still does not help, please reach out to our amazing support team who will be more than happy to assist you with your issue! :)
Hope that helps!
- Bobby.
In order to reboot the droplet using the command line you can use these two options:
sudo reboot
and
sudo shutdown -r now
They basically do the exact same thing so using any of them will complete the task.
Generally speaking, the shutdown command is more preferable because you have the option to specify the reason for the system reboot, e.g a maintenance. An additional feature is that you can schedule when the system needs to be powered down.
sudo shutdown -r now 'System maintenance'
Hope that this helps!
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