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It turns off on its own and you turn it on whenever you want

Your Cloud OBS isn’t on 24 hours a day. It turns off when you’re not using it and you turn it back on when you need it.

When it turns off

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After about 30 minutes without broadcasting and without the desktop open. The status then goes to Stopped and the notice appears: “Your server is turned off to save resources.”

While you’re Live it doesn’t turn off. With the remote desktop open it doesn’t either. It only turns off when you’re genuinely not using it.

You don’t have to turn it off yourself: there’s no button for that, it does it on its own. When you’re done, just leave it: it switches off by itself.

We warn you before turning it off

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It doesn’t go off behind your back. About 5 minutes before, a notice reaches the bell in the dashboard: “Your Cloud OBS is about to switch off.”

To stop it, open the server’s desktop: the notice itself carries the button Open the desktop to keep it awake. With the desktop open the countdown is cancelled and the server stays on for as long as you’re there.

If it does switch off anyway, a second notice arrives, “We switched off your Cloud OBS (inactivity)”, with the action Go to my server to turn it back on.

On OBS Basic there’s no Desktop tab, so you can’t cancel the countdown there: either you’re broadcasting, or it will end up turning off. Turn it on again when you need it.

Why it’s a good thing

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A Cloud OBS that’s on takes up GPU even if it’s showing a black screen. Turning it off when you’re not using it is what lets the plan cost what it costs and what keeps servers free when you ask for one. And it costs you nothing: turning it on is one button.

What you do NOT lose when it turns off

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Nothing of yours. When you turn it on, everything is where you left it:

The only thing that doesn’t survive is the session in progress, and by definition there wasn’t one: if you’d been broadcasting, it wouldn’t have turned off.

How to turn it on

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  1. Go into OBS Servers, or open your server’s detail.
  2. Hit Turn on.
  3. The status goes to Turning on… and then to Online.

It takes a few minutes. That’s the time it needs to start up and load your scenes.

Don’t be left waiting right before a stream

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It’s the classic mistake: you open the dashboard at start time, the server is off, and you eat the wait with people already watching.

  1. Turn it on before start time, not at start time.
  2. While it boots, get your phone or your encoder ready (Your first stream).
  3. When it says Online, go to OBS control, set the Starting scene and check the feed is reaching you before you hit Start stream.

Not starting?

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Next step

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