How to reinstall your VPS using SSH?

tlhIngan · Jul 21, 2016

I want to reinstall my VPS using SSH, it is possible to rebuild a Linux VPS to original state with OS as Centos, Ubuntu or Fedora?

VirtuBox · Jul 21, 2016

No you need to reinstall it from your customer panel.

Because install a VPS mean you will loose you SSH connection.

ExpertHosters · Jul 21, 2016

Its not possible to reinstall your server via SSH. You should contact your hosting provider to help you on this or you can do it from your client area if your provider allows you to do so.

Luxin Host · Jul 21, 2016

is there a specific reason why you want to do it via SSH?

tlhIngan · Jul 22, 2016

VirtuBox said:
No you need to reinstall it from your customer panel.

Because install a VPS mean you will loose you SSH connection.

It is a great explanation and now I knew why web hosting is requiring users to reinstall their VPS on their hosting control panel.

Luxin Host said:
is there a specific reason why you want to do it via SSH?

Most of time, I used SSH to deal with things on a VPS and always feel faster than other programs.

kurokood · Aug 1, 2016

It is not easy to re-install your server via SSH. You need to speak to your host company that will help you about this or it can be done out of your client area in case your provider enables you to do this.

24x7serverman · Jun 20, 2018

If you reinstall VPS then you will need to configure everything again whereas restoring the snapshot is always the best option.

mobin · Jun 20, 2018

Like others said, its not possible to re-install OS uing SSH but you can do some cleanup....but re-install should be faster than the cleanup and provide perfect output than working with SSH. Snapshot restoration can only help if you want to restore your VPS into certain level....otherwise go with the default OS reload.

eva2000 · Jun 30, 2018

Actually it is possible to reinstall but needs to be done via headless VNC setup i.e. http://www.danpros.com/2016/02/how-to-install-centos-7-remotely-using-vnc. But if you didn't know about this, then chances you don't have the technical know-how to do it and troubleshoot any issues is very slim. So best to reinstall at web host level.

Cherin · Jun 30, 2018

If you want to reinstall the VPS, You need to have access of client panel which is provided by your hosting provider like SolusVM Control Panel. There you will be having option to reinstall the VPS with OS templates. You can choose your preferred OS template and go ahead with next process.

Nixtree · Jul 3, 2018

Reinstall is always good even if you have to do some work becuase that will get you latest OS with latest security fixes. In amazon, you can install OS in one main partition and can attach volumes to any new instance and can use. So it is good to have a new instance , Install the Softwares needed (only those which are needed and its latest) copy the configurations and fix the configurations , then attach the /home from old to new instance . In this case, time needed for copying the files and contents will be saved and you will be getting latest OS and other Latest softwares. Entire VPS snapshot will be having the same old server and old versions as far as I know

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