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Power off a Server

Cuts power to the Server. This forcefully stops it without giving the Server operating system time to gracefully stop. May lead to data loss, equivalent to pulling the power cord. Power off should only be used when shutdown does not work.

post/servers/{id}/actions/poweroff

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.hetzner.cloud/v1
  • URL: https://api.hetzner.cloud/v1/servers/{id}/actions/poweroff
  • Auth: HTTP bearer

Path parameters

idinteger required

ID of the Server.

Example:42

ID of the Server.

Response

Request succeeded.

Example response

{
  "action": {
    "id": 42,
    "command": "start_resource",
    "started": "2016-01-30T23:55:00Z",
    "finished": "2016-01-30T23:55:00Z",
    "progress": 100,
    "resources": [
      {
        "id": 42,
        "type": "server"
      }
    ],
    "error": {
      "code": "action_failed",
      "message": "Action failed"
    }
  }
}

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.