The advantage to having the service name last is that you can easily list multiple services. On a default Ubuntu installation, this is now possible with systemd

The advantage to having the service name last is that you can easily list multiple services. On a default Ubuntu installation, this is now possible with systemd, another opinionated piece of software: sudo systemctl restart php7.0-fpm I tend to prefer this syntax because I can perform an action on multiple services with a single command.