Before you start
Save running job output and download important files. Stopping, restarting, and destroying have different effects.
Steps
- Open the GPU instance and inspect its status and costs.
- Stop the instance when you want to pause compute while retaining supported rental storage. Confirm that the provider supports stop/start for the rental.
- Start the existing rental to resume it. Check that models and workspace files remain and that the application is ready.
- Use restart only after saving work; it interrupts the application even when storage remains.
- To end the rental permanently, back up required files and choose Destroy or the equivalent termination action. Confirm the displayed deletion warning.
- Verify the terminated state and review wallet usage. Destroying a rental removes its storage; keep long-term backups outside it.
Check the result
The intended state is reflected in the instance page. A stopped rental can still incur disk charges; a destroyed rental is not a recovery point.
Troubleshooting
Provider capacity can affect restarting a stopped rental. Never assume a stopped disk is a backup or that terminating compute cancels unrelated subscriptions.