I have never needed it, but the hosting provider which I use actually has an API that you can use to reboot servers into different OS images, or trigger hardwar

I have never needed it, but the hosting provider which I use actually has an API that you can use to reboot servers into different OS images, or trigger hardware resets, or do an kvm access. https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Robot_Webservice/en https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Robot_Webservice/en But honestly, if you have only one server, what do you need an API for? It'll be much faster to just configure things by hand. It's not like you'll switch servers very often. Or at least the original article says that they committed to monthly cancelation terms.