You can now fully restart your server directly from within the RunCloud dashboard.

This gives you a fast, controlled way to apply system-level updates, recover from instability, or resolve deep system issues without leaving your RunCloud dashboard.

How to Restart Your Server

In your RunCloud dashboard, navigate to the server you want to restart: 

From here, you can either:

Open the Quick Actions menu, as shown below,

Or, alternatively, navigate to the server’s Settings area and click Restart Server.

And then, click Restart Server.

Upon doing so, you'll be prompted to confirm that you wish to proceed in the modal. 

Once confirmed, your server will begin the restart process.

Restart vs. Reload – What’s the Difference?

Before performing a full server reboot, consider whether a service reload is sufficient.

From the Services tab, you can choose to Reload or Restart individual services, such as:

• NGINX
• OpenLiteSpeed
• PHP-FPM versions
• MariaDB

Reloading a service tells it to re-read its configuration files without terminating the main process or dropping active connections. This is the preferred approach when applying configuration changes.

Restarting a service stops and starts that specific service, which may cause brief downtime for that component.

A full server restart should only be used when necessary, such as:

• Kernel or operating system updates
• A completely unresponsive server
• Deep memory leaks are not resolved by restarting individual services

⚠️ Restarting your server will temporarily take all hosted websites offline.