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Used shutdown -h now : How to restart my VPS

Posted on April 24, 2014

I used this command instead of exit : shutdown -h now . Now my site is offline and when I type my IP and try to connect to it , it does not work. What to do ? How can I bring the site online ? Please help.



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Login to the the DO control panel https://cloud.digitalocean.com/ click the droplet you want to boot and power it on from there.

Thanks Allison. Is my IP and root password the log in details ?

@dilip.cauti <br> <br>The login details are for your DigitalOcean account, not the password for the VPS itself. You should see the power menu, it looks like: <br> <br>http://i.imgur.com/Repknjn.png <br> <br>Click boot. <br> <br>In the future, you can use the command: <br> <br><pre> <br>sudo reboot <br></pre>

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