How to Restart a Vultr Cloud Compute Instance

1 min readUpdated 4 November 2026

Hard reboot a Vultr Cloud Compute instance to apply updates. Running processes stop, but data stays intact.

Restarting an instance performs a hard reboot, stopping all running processes before starting them again. It does not affect the instance's data or file system and allows application updates or configuration changes that require a reboot to take effect.

Follow this guide to restart a Vultr Cloud Compute instance using the Vultr Console, API, or CLI.

Navigate to Compute and click Instances.
Click your target Vultr Cloud Compute instance to open its management page.
Click the Server Restart icon in the top-right corner of the management page.
Click Restart Server in the confirmation prompt to restart the instance.

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