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Are you sure you want to power cycle?

There should be an "are you sure" prompt for anything which involves the immediate shutdown/reset of a droplet.

Somehow I have actually managed to accidentally power cycle a droplet in a production environment at a peak time.

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  • Sep 11 2018
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  • Chris Mebs commented
    12 Sep, 2019 09:02pm

    Can I suggest for a name change on this feature request to be more in line with the current control panel UI? There is no "power cycle", it's simply "Turn off".

    I agree with  the idea though. The placement of the "Turn Off" button so close to the account switcher and enabling of floating IPs is terrible. Way too easy to power down a droplet in a single click. There needs to be a confirmation prompt.

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  • Guest commented
    11 Sep, 2018 05:32pm

    I can see this happening to me...
    It can be done with one line of Javascript and has the potential to save a lot of trouble.

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  • Guest commented
    11 Sep, 2018 05:32pm

    It comes very often to me.
    The problem is when I click to "Access", all the text change to th console access istantly, but the key still stay to "power cycles" for some seconds before shows "console access"

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  • Guest commented
    11 Sep, 2018 05:32pm

    It just happened to me 10 minutes ago.

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  • Guest commented
    11 Sep, 2018 05:32pm

    Yeah, this should not be something you "suggest," potentially destructive actions should always have a prompt.

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  • Guest commented
    11 Sep, 2018 05:32pm

    I'm disappointed that we actually have to request and have this voted on....

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