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Take and restore snapshots, switch on daily backups, set firewall rules without locking yourself out, and rebuild a cloud server from its page.
Every cloud server has its own page under Servers. This article covers four things on that page: snapshots, automatic backups, the firewall, and rebuilding the server.
A snapshot is a copy of the server's whole disk, taken when you click Take a snapshot. Take one before anything risky, such as an operating-system upgrade or a new PHP version. Add a short note so you can tell later what it was for.
has finished, which takes a few minutes.
the disk since then is lost, and there is no undo, so take a fresh snapshot first if you might need today's state. You can only restore a snapshot taken from the same server.
Switch on Backups and a copy of the server is taken every day. Older restore points are removed automatically, and the card shows how many are kept.
brought back, so take a snapshot first if you want to keep the latest one.
The Firewall card decides which traffic may reach the server. Each rule names a direction (incoming or outgoing), a protocol, a port or range of ports, and the addresses it applies to.
address. If you lock yourself out and the server has a Console card, it still opens a terminal on the server.
and the old rules stay in place.
Rebuild this server erases the disk and installs a clean operating system of your choice. The server keeps its plan. On some servers a rebuild or a restore swaps the disk in several steps and takes a few minutes. The page shows it as in progress, and you can close the page while it runs.
If a rebuild or restore cannot run at that moment, you are told so and nothing changes. Try again shortly.
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