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How to Restart a Vultr VX1™ Cloud Compute Instance

Updated on 21 November, 2025

Restart your Vultr VX1™ Cloud Compute instance through the Customer Portal or API to reinitialize the system without affecting stored data.

Restarting an instance performs a hard reboot that stops all running processes and reinitializes the operating system. This action does not affect the instance’s data or file system. Restarting is useful for applying system updates, configuration changes, or recovering from temporary service issues.

Follow this guide to restart a Vultr VX1™ Cloud Compute instance using the Vultr Customer Portal, or API.

  • Vultr Customer Portal
  • Vultr API
  1. Navigate to Products and click Compute.
  2. Click your target Vultr VX1™ Cloud Compute instance to open its management page.
  3. Click Server Restart on the top-right navigation menu to restart your server.
  4. Click Restart Server in the confirmation prompt to apply changes.

  1. Send a GET request to the List Instances endpoint and note your target instance's ID.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/instances" \
  -X GET \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"

  2. Send a POST request to the Reboot Instances endpoint to restart the instance.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/instances/reboot" \
  -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{
    "instance_ids" : [
      "instance_id"
    ]
  }'

    If successful, you receive a 200 HTTP response.

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