{"id":2479,"date":"2021-03-04T21:20:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T21:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/?post_type=encyclopedia&#038;p=2479"},"modified":"2021-03-04T21:20:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T21:20:41","slug":"reboot","status":"publish","type":"encyclopedia","link":"https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/encyclopedia\/reboot\/","title":{"rendered":"reboot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2369 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Doctor_1200-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Doctor_1200-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Doctor_1200-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Doctor_1200-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Doctor_1200-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Doctor_1200-850x850.png 850w, https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Doctor_1200.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\">A reboot is a power cycling of a dedicated server or <a href=\"https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/encyclopedia\/vps\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"VPS is a web hosting related term that refers to a Virtual Private Server. A virtual private server is a unique partitioning of resources of a dedicated server for each user. \u00a0 VPS can be given root access, as each VPS hosted on a single dedicated server will be running a unique copy of an\u2026\" class=\"encyclopedia\">VPS<\/a>, it is essentially the same thing as \u201cturning it off and then turning it back on again\u201d. Often a reboot is needed after operating sy<a href=\"https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/encyclopedia\/stem\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"STEM is a term that refers to the broad study area of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.\" class=\"encyclopedia\">stem<\/a> updates have been downloaded, in order to completely install them. It is generally recommended to occasionally do a restart and\/or power cycle of your dedicated server or <a href=\"https:\/\/pingyour.com\/blog\/encyclopedia\/vps\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"VPS is a web hosting related term that refers to a Virtual Private Server. 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