Power Cycle is an option used to immediately disconnect power from your server to power it up again. This is mostly done when you lose access to rebooting options on your server.

Before performing a power cycle you should know that it does not shut down your server applications gracefully and thus could result in data loss.

If you are a Dedicated Server owner, and you want to turn it off and then restart it forcefully, just follow these steps:

1. Login to your SANGKRIT.net account
2. Visit your My Products page
3. Click the Servers option
4. Click Manage next to the server you want to restart
5. Select Server Actions > Power Cycle from the upper-right corner of the page
6. Click the Request Power Cycle option

Now the power cycle begins and this may take some time, a couple of minutes. Next, when it is finally done the cycle is added to the history list of your server.

The VPS owners need to follow a different set of steps:

1. Login to your SANGKRIT.net account
2. Visit your My Products page
3. Click the Servers option
4. Click Manage next to the server you want to restart
5. Select Server Actions > Restart Server

That’s it. These options are useful especially when you are not able to boot your server via SSH. These don’t cause any loss to saved content but you may lose any unsaved files or temporary settings on your server after enforcing a power cycle.