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Ability to restart servers
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Kai Marshland
Sometimes (particularly in the development stage) my server has gotten stuck on something and I want to be able to restart it. While I can manually deploy, this retriggers the build process, making it take longer than a simple restart.
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Robb Shecter
Yes, so the request is really to have an API endpoint to restart a service without a build but
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Would also love to have this for CRON jobs. Currently I have to change the type to restart the server. Clicking a button would be much better.
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Michael Hellein
As noted in the community forum, it's possible to use
kill
within an SSH session to restart a service, but it is rather clumsy and triggers spurious emails about the service failing. https://community.render.com/t/a-dump-question-how-to-reboot-a-server-on-render/1651/10A
Alec Larson
I would love if there were runtime-only environment variables that only restart the server, instead of triggering a build.
For example, I might set DEBUG to enable more logs in my Node.js web service, and the development cycle is faster when I can avoid the unwanted rebuild.
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Austin Turner
I agree, this would be a great feature.
- I should be able to manually restart without triggering a full build
- If I change an env var, my app should restart without a full build (I am coming from Heroku, and I liked that they handled it without requiring a full build and if I needed a full build I could easily trigger one, but often env vars are just runtime concerns)
Anurag Goel
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Oleg Komarov
How are changes to environment variables treated? For example Heroku automatically restarts the dyno on env variable change
Anurag Goel
Oleg Komarov: We automatically build and restart the service on env vars changes.