Help CenterThe scheduling tab can be used to restart your server automatically whenever you require it to do so. This guide covers how to do just that!
🚧 NOTE: It is recommended to restart your server every now and again to help prevent certain issues, as well as to clear up some resources for the server so that it lessens the chance of a crash!
👋 New to Schedules? Check out this guide for a basic rundown of them!
Step 1: Log In to your Game Panel
To get started, login to the SimpleGameHosting panel and select your server.
Step 2: Navigate to the Schedules Tab and Create a Schedule
The timing of your restart is solely up to you, but I recommend having it restart whenever there are few or no people on the server, typically late at night or very early in the morning for most players. Remember that the times you set here are in Eastern Time! The setup below restarts the server at 3AM Eastern Time:
Press Create Schedule. You can then click on your new schedule to modify the tasks within. In this case, press the "New Task" button.
Though not required, it is advised to add a text warning of an incoming restart so that players can have a chance to get to a safe area or finish up anything they're doing before the server goes offline. You can do this by adding a "Send Command" action:
Afterward, we can add our restart command with a 300-second Time Offset like so:
Now that we have it set up, your screen should look something like this:
The schedule defines the following steps: At 3:00 AM Eastern Time, the server will:
> Send a message to all players saying "FIVE MINUTES TILL RESTART"
> Wait 5 minutes
> Restart the server
With that, your server is now set up to restart automatically!