How to Start/Stop/Restart a Service

Prerequisites

Before managing services, make sure you have:

• SSH access to your VPS
• Root or sudo privileges

Basic Service Commands

Connect to your VPS:

ssh hxroot@YOUR_SERVER_IP -p 22

Start a service:

sudo systemctl start nginx

Stop a service:

sudo systemctl stop nginx

Restart a service:

sudo systemctl restart nginx

Reload configuration (without restart):

sudo systemctl reload nginx

Check Service Status

sudo systemctl status nginx

Enable/Disable Auto-start

Enable service on boot:

sudo systemctl enable nginx

Disable service on boot:

sudo systemctl disable nginx

Common Services

• nginx - Web server
• mysql or mariadb - Database
• ssh or sshd - SSH server
• ufw - Firewall
• fail2ban - Security