Starts the server mentioned on serviceid.
Request Parameters
| Parameter |
Type |
Description |
Required |
| action |
string |
“StartVM” |
Required |
| serviceid |
string |
The service id code as per your Sive.Host client area. When you login to Sive.Host client area, you click on the active services, a list of all will appear, then click on the word "Active" next to the service, then the service page will appear, on the url of the page, you will see the number at the end of it. eg. if URL is https://sive.host/clientarea.php?action=productdetails&id=2633 , then the service id is 2633 in this case. |
Required |
| api_key |
string |
API key credentials as per Authentication instructions |
Required |
| api_secret |
string |
API secret credentials as per Authentication instructions |
Required |
Response Parameters
| Parameter |
Type |
Description |
| result |
string |
The result of the operation: success or error |
| status |
string |
The status of the invoice generated for the additional capacity. |
| serviceid |
string |
The Service ID created by the succesful purchase. |
| invoiceid |
int |
The Invoice ID created by the succesful purchase. |
| message |
string |
Additional information regarding the resize operation |
Example Request (CURL)
<?php
$apiUrl = 'https://sive.host/includes/sivehost-api.php'; // Change to your API endpoint
$username = 'Ikhaka'; // required
$password = 'Mph#th9mi$'; // required
$postfields = array(
'api_key' => 'G2dskdXb7BlDwlvbrD1zVEe5ZKQIybXn', // required
'api_secret' => 'CtIJVZf8OM1p4iLxwiKFjlU4bPVmEycS', // required
'action' => 'StartVM',
'serviceid' => '2639',
);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $apiUrl);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($postfields));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password"); // Basic Authentication
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); // Use true in production with a valid SSL
$response = curl_exec($ch);
// Check for cURL errors
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
echo 'cURL Error: ' . curl_error($ch);
}
curl_close($ch);
// Output response
echo $response;
?>
Example Response JSON
{
"result":"success",
"status":"Unpaid",
"serviceid":"2639",
"invoiceid":13784,
"message":{"data":"UPID:ekhaya101:001D4AEA:17CB6F38:67B498A3:resize:112:africanlab@pve:"}
}
Error Responses
| Error Message |
Cause |
| Unauthorized access! |
Request from unauthorized IP |
| Invalid API Key or secret. |
Incorrect API credentials |
| Invalid Product or Operating System. |
Unknown product or Operating System for that product |
| Missing action parameter. |
action not specified eg. BuyNow |
| Insufficient credit to place the order. |
Not enough account balance. Load credit on Sive.Host client area. |
| Invalid Payment Method. Valid options include |
Payment method not specified on payload. |
| Invalid disk format. |
Incorrect disk format eg. putting rootfs for VPS instead of scsi0, or scsi0 for LXC instead of rootfs |
Version History
| Version |
Changelog |
| 1.0 |
Initial Version |
