Scheduling a Server Shutdown (Windows)

For Dedicated Servers

Before a planned maintenance (e.g. when replacing a defective hard disk) or server relocation, we recommend shutting down your server at a scheduled time to prevent data loss.

Please Note

If you shut down a Managed Dedicated Server in the Server Administration in a time-controlled manner, it can only be switched on again by the IONOS Customer Support. This also applies to servers that you purchase as part of a Server Power Deal and are managed in Server Management.

To schedule a server shutdown, proceed as follows:

Log in as administrator or user with administrator rights.
Check the current time on your server and change or update it if necessary.
Open the command prompt.
To set the time at which your server should shut down, type the command below. The time until the automatic shutdown of your server must be specified in seconds.
shutdown -s -t [number of seconds]
Example:
shutdown -s -t 86400

Your server will shut down at that scheduled time (in this example: after 24h).