How to Schedule Automatic Server Restarts

Regular restarts keep a server running smoothly, especially with mods or many plugins.

Create a restart schedule

1. Open your server and click Schedules in the sidebar.
2. Create a schedule and give it a Schedule Name, such as "Daily restart".
3. Choose when it runs:
   • Use Preset: pick one such as Daily or Every 6 hours; or
   • Custom Cron: enter a cron expression, for example 0 5 * * * for 05:00 every day (times are UTC).
4. Turn on Only when online if it should only run while the server is running.
5. Make sure it's Enabled and save.

Add the tasks

Open the schedule and add each step with New Task:

1. Send Command: say Restarting in 1 minute!
2. Power Action: Restart, with a Time Offset of 60 seconds.

Tasks run in order; the offset is the wait after the task before it.

Restart only when empty

Schedules can't check how many players are online. Pick a quiet time instead, and warn players with a say command first.