VPS shutdown ?

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fischermx

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How is a shutdown or reboot handled in VPSes?

In a normal windows shutdown, windows shut all services first, is it the same on a VPS, i.e. does it shutdown all the services on all VPses first, or is it just like a kill/halt?
 
shuts down services, this is why if you have less than 5% free ram at time of reboot it may not be able to shutdown and hang for many hours on shutdown.
The process to START a shutdown actually takes some RAM, then frees it rather quickly, but it needs some free ram to get going as well
 
Stephen,

What's your recommendation as far as restarting services are concerned: is it best done via virtuozzo, via plesk, or via the msc interface?

Since our enfant terrible plesk likes to control everything and do things in its own special way i'd be tempted to say via plesk, but if the service in question (e.g. IIS) is hanging precisely because plesk has somehow choked on a byte or two, it often doesn't seem to do the trick.
 
iis, do start, run, cmd, iisreset :)

As for others, to free ram restart from Power Panel or if you can get into the server use services.msc and restart using the MMC.
 
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