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05-10-2004, 10:09 AM #1Web Hosting Evangelist
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What are Hard Boot and Soft Boot of Server?
Hi,
This is surely a very stupid questions. However, I need to clarify what is "Soft" boot and what is "Hard" boot of server?
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05-10-2004, 10:18 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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I may have the clarification totally wrong way round but:
SoftBoot: This is where you reboot the computer/server your self through software, for eample: # shutdown -r now
HardBoot: This is where the system cannot be shutdown through software, for example it has crashed, so you have to reboot it manually through the power button
hope this clears some things up for you
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05-10-2004, 10:52 AM #3Junior Guru
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I think a "shutdown" would shutdown your server. To soft reboot your server use the following.
# /sbin/reboot
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05-10-2004, 02:25 PM #4Web Hosting Master
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There is also such a thing as a "graceful" reboot. :-)
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05-10-2004, 03:21 PM #5Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by mcraft
I think a "shutdown" would shutdown your server. To soft reboot your server use the following.Game Servers are the next hot market!
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05-11-2004, 09:38 AM #6Problem Solver
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Originally posted by mcraft
I think a "shutdown" would shutdown your server. To soft reboot your server use the following.
# /sbin/reboot
shutdown -r now
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05-11-2004, 10:00 AM #7Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by Imago
There is also such a thing as a "graceful" reboot. :-)
Soft Boot is of 2 types:
- graceful: send a signal to all services to shutdown, all programs with opened files, etc. wait them and then reboot
- forceful: just reboot
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05-11-2004, 10:20 AM #8Web Hosting Guru
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then do we need datacenter to reboot for us anymore?
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05-11-2004, 10:24 AM #9Web Hosting Evangelist
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yes you need your dc to reboot the server for you if you don't have reboot port.
you can't login to your control panel or ssh to execute "reboot" command if your server is down.Dixiy.com - Professional Web Hosting Provider since 2002
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05-11-2004, 10:41 AM #10Web Hosting Master
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Basically for a remote server, a soft reboot is one which you can do it remotely via software or OS.
A hard reboot would be one which requires them to physically go to your machine and hit the reset button. Or if you have a remote reboot switch, you could do that too.
Basically, a hard reboot would create a small short circuit on the motherboard which causes it to restart itself. A soft reboot is done graciously via software or even by using the Ctrl-Alt-Del buttons.http://www.batchimage.com - Offering Batch Image Processing and TIFF/PDF Software Solutions
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05-11-2004, 06:02 PM #11Web Hosting Guru
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This thread begs the question:
Do you like your reboots soft, hard or graceful?
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05-11-2004, 06:33 PM #12Junior Guru
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its like
"hard reset" (pressing your server's reset button) or "soft reset" (pressing CTRL-Alt-del on your server's keyboard