# Drainstop/Graceful stop? **URL:** \ **Category:** NGINX\ **Created:** [September 23, 2013, 11:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/drainstop-graceful-stop/236661 "2013-09-23T23:15:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alcina](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a587f6/32.png) [@alcina](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alcina)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 11:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/drainstop-graceful-stop/236661/1 "2013-09-23T23:15:47Z")
Hi, Sorry if this is a but of a bumb question, but we’re moving from NLB to using Nginx as a load balancer. Whats the best way to do an equivelient of a drain-stop to one upstram server? Would it be a graceful stop, then a quick service restart with a new .conf that don’t have the server in question in it, or is there a nicer way of doing it? Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Drainstop/Graceful stop?](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,243077,243077#msg-243077)** > > Hi, Sorry if this is a but of a bumb question, but we're moving from NLB to using Nginx as a load balancer. Whats the best way to do an equivelient of a drain-stop to one upstram server? Would it be a graceful stop, then a quick service restart with... ---
**Author:** ![Sapherz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Sapherz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sapherz)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 6:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/drainstop-graceful-stop/236661/2 "2013-09-24T06:13:09Z")
On Sep 24, 2013, at 1:15 , Sapherz wrote: > Hi, > Sorry if this is a but of a bumb question, but we’re moving from NLB to > using Nginx as a load balancer. Whats the best way to do an equivelient of a > drain-stop to one upstram server? Would it be a graceful stop, then a quick > service restart with a new .conf that don’t have the server in question in > it, or is there a nicer way of doing it? [http://nginx.org/en/docs/control.html#reconfiguration](http://nginx.org/en/docs/control.html#reconfiguration)