As a dedicated server owner you have ability to reboot/shutdown your server anytime you want, as you have root access to your server so you can reboot your server as per your wish. your affordable web hosting service provider may also help you for the same but if you are planning to reboot your server at some specific time then you should be aware of managing scheduled task, with windows OS you can easily shutdown/restart your server but if you want to restart your server at some specific time then you need to have PsShutdown command line utility installed on your server.
Firstly you will have to download PsShutdown application on your server.
Now you will have to open Windows command prompt via Start > Run > cmd and enter the following command to schedule your reboot properly:
c:> at TIME c: \FolderName\psshutdown.exe –r –f –c –t 10 -accepteula
You have to specify required time frame when you want to reboot your server at “TIME”
i.e. if you wanted to reboot at 4am, you’d enter: c:> at 4:00am …
You will have to replace FolderName with the location of the directory where you have stored PsShutdown
The –codes are as follows :
-s shuts down your Windows server
-r reboots your Windows server
-f forces all applications to exit even if they are running in the background, etc
-c allows your shutdown or reboot to be canceled
-t specifies the countdown in seconds until the machine reboots or shuts down.
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This post was written by on November 27, 2009
