Power Options

Every VPS (Cloud, GPU Cloud, VDS) has a set of power controls in the portal: Start, Shutdown (graceful), Reboot, and Force off (hard stop). They live right on the detail page so you can poke at a stuck server without leaving the browser.

• Power controls are only enabled when the VM is in a normal state. A provisioning, suspended, or terminated VPS has its power buttons greyed out. Suspended servers have to be reactivated via Support first.
• Power actions require Write access to the VPS. Read-only project roles will see the controls but can't trigger them.

1. In the sidebar, click Cloud (or GPU Cloud / Metal depending on product type) to open the list.

2. Click the row for the server you want to control.

The detail page opens at /vps/{id} with a status pill (running / stopped / provisioning / suspended) and a power-control toolbar in the top right.

The toolbar in the top right has four icons next to Console. Hover over each to see its label as a tooltip:

1. Power: toggles between Shutdown (when running) and Start (when stopped). Shutdown sends a graceful ACPI signal to the guest OS, giving services time to exit cleanly.

2. Force off (only shown when running): hard power-off. Equivalent to pulling the plug. Use only when graceful shutdown won't finish.

3. Reboot: restarts the VM. Only available when running.

Disabled icons explain why on hover (for example, "VM is already powered on").

For the same actions in a larger, labelled grid:

1. Click the Power tab in the row of tabs near the top of the detail page.

2. You'll see four large buttons: Start [1], Force off [2], Shutdown [3], Reboot [4].

The current status appears above the grid. [5]

Force off is the only action that asks for confirmation, because it skips the guest OS shutdown and may corrupt unsaved work or filesystems.

1. Click Force off from the toolbar or the Power tab. A dialog opens explaining what's about to happen.

2. Drag the slider on the slide-to-confirm rail all the way to the right. The action only fires when the slider reaches the end.

To back out, just close the dialog - nothing fires until the slider completes.

• The status pill updates as soon as the action is accepted, and the portal polls the hypervisor every 2 seconds until the VM reaches the expected state (or a 60-second timeout).
• During polling, the spinner next to the status pill spins.
• Activity for power actions is logged on the Activity tab - you can see who triggered what and when.