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Used shutdown -h now : How to restart my VPS

Posted April 24, 2014 13.8k views
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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jt April 25, 2014
Login to the the DO control panel https://cloud.digitalocean.com/ click the droplet you want to boot and power it on from there.
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dilip.cauti April 25, 2014
Thanks Allison. Is my IP and root password the log in details ?
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asb April 25, 2014
@dilip.cauti

The login details are for your DigitalOcean account, not the password for the VPS itself. You should see the power menu, it looks like:

http://i.imgur.com/Repknjn.png

Click boot.

In the future, you can use the command: 


sudo reboot
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