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Where can i find my droplet ID and how do I reboot

Posted on August 7, 2013

My developer is away and my server is not responding. How do I reboot please? I found a URL in the API page but need my droplet id. How do I find out what it is please?



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First go here: https://cloud.digitalocean.com/droplets

Click on the droplet.

Look in the URL of your droplet’s graph. The URL will contain: https://cloud.digitalocean.com/droplets/YOUR_DROPLET_ID_HERE/graphs

Also to find a droplet_id from the droplet you can:

curl -s http://169.254.169.254/metadata/v1/id

go into the droplet >power>power cycle >click on the big blue button <br>or just enter into ssh and sudo reboot

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