Hibernate Operations

Hibernation saves your instance's complete state - including memory, running processes, and open files - to disk. When restored, the instance resumes exactly where you left off.

Hibernate Instance

Save instance state to disk and stop billing.

How to Hibernate:

Navigate to Dashboard and select the instance

Click Hibernate VM in VM Actions section

Confirm in the modal

Duration: 3-7 minutes (longer for large RAM instances, up to 15 minutes for 512GB+ RAM)

Status flow: RUNNING → HIBERNATING → HIBERNATED

Restore Instance

Resume a hibernated instance to continue from saved state.

How to Restore:

Navigate to Dashboard and select the hibernated instance

Click Restore VM in VM Controls section

Confirm in the modal

Duration: 4-8 minutes (longer for large RAM instances)

Status flow: HIBERNATED → STARTING → RUNNING

Hibernate vs Stop

Feature	Hibernate	Stop
Preserves RAM & processes	Yes	No
Resume time	4-8 minutes	2-5 minutes
Shutdown time	3-15 minutes	1-3 minutes
Billing while inactive	Stopped	Stopped
Restore available	CANADA-1 only	All regions

Use Hibernate: When you need to preserve running state and resume work without restarting applications.

Use Stop: When starting fresh next time or don't need to preserve running processes.

Troubleshooting

Cannot hibernate - already hibernated

Cannot hibernate - transitional state

Cannot restore - not hibernated

Restore not available

Support

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Technical assistance for hibernate operations

Instance Lifecycle

Start, stop, reboot, and delete operations

Hibernation

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