How to restart services on a VPS

You can restart services on your VPS using WHM panel or SSH.

To restart services with WHM

• Login to WHM.
• Navigate to Restart Services.

• Click on the service which you want to restart.
• Click yes when prompted.

 

To restart services with SSH

Login to your VPS as root user in the syntax:

ssh -l root IP_address -p port_number

Run the following command to restart services in Redhat/CentOS, run:

service service_name restart

For example:

service httpd restart

For Ubuntu/Debian based, run:

/etc/init.d/service_name restart

For example:

/etc/init.d/httpd restart

This will restart the service.