Restart or regenerate

The two buttons sit next to each other in your server’s detail and do very different things. One is harmless. The other has no way back.

The difference in one table

	Restart	Regenerate
What it does	Shuts your server down and brings it back up	Deletes the server and creates a new one from scratch
Scenes	Kept	Lost
OBS settings	Kept	Lost
Uploaded assets	Kept	Lost
Overlays and scene switching	Kept	Back to factory values
If you’re live	The broadcast is cut	The broadcast is cut
Can it be undone?	No need	No
How long it takes	Not long	Like creating a new server: a few minutes

What about changing plan?

Changing plan is neither of the two: your scenes, your settings and your files are kept. The server restarts to apply the new plan, like a Restart, and that’s it. → Change plan

Restart

Hit Restart. It warns you: “Restart the server? The current session will be interrupted.” The status goes to Restarting… and comes back to Online.

It’s the equivalent of closing OBS and opening it again. Use it when:

• The dashboard can’t connect to your server even though it’s Online.
• OBS has got stuck: it doesn’t respond to scene changes, the audio doesn’t show up.
• The stats are frozen.
• Something’s off and you don’t know what. Try this first, always.

Don’t restart while live

Restarting cuts the broadcast. If you’re on air, stop the stream first with Stop stream.

Regenerate

This cannot be undone

Regenerating completely deletes the current server and creates a new one from scratch. You lose your scenes, your settings and the files you’ve uploaded. There’s no backup and no undo button.

Hit Regenerate and the dashboard says exactly that before asking you to Confirm. The status goes to Regenerating… and, when it’s done, you have a brand new server with the factory scenes and overlays (Scenes and overlays).

Only use it when:

• You’ve messed with the OBS configuration so much that you no longer know what you broke and you’d rather start clean.
• The server says Error and restarting doesn’t fix it.
• Support asks you to.

Before regenerating

1. Download or get back to hand everything you uploaded to assets: it gets deleted.
2. Write down anything you customised by hand in OBS.
3. Copy the URLs of your own overlays if you had them set.

If the server was off

It stays off. The dashboard warns you: “Your server is off. The changes will be applied but the server will stay off — turn it on whenever you want to use it.”

Regenerating doesn’t turn it on, so it doesn’t burn resources until you hit Turn on (It turns off on its own).

Which one do I pick

What’s happening to you	What you do
The server doesn’t respond or is behaving oddly	Restart
Scenes don’t switch from the dashboard	Restart
It was off and I want to use it	Turn on, neither of the two
You changed your streaming channel and want it applied now	Regenerate, knowing you lose the rest
You’ve destroyed the OBS configuration	Regenerate
Status Error and restarting doesn’t fix it	Regenerate
Status Suspended	Neither: check Billing
You’re outgrowing the quality, the keys or the space	Change plan, which wipes nothing

Next step

• The Cloud OBS won’t start — before regenerating, check whether it’s something else.
• It turns off on its own and you turn it on whenever you want — why you sometimes find it Stopped without having touched it.