---
title: "Suspend"
description: "To pause a box with its processes, memory and ports intact, so compute stops billing until it resumes."
term:
  id: "suspend"
  forms: ["suspend","suspends","suspended","suspending"]
  source: docs
  status: proposed
generated: scripts/generate.ts
verified:
  cli: "0.0.0-mock"
  date: "2026-10-20"
---

> **suspend**: To pause a box with its processes, memory and ports intact, so compute stops billing until it resumes.

## What waits while a box is suspended

Its processes, its memory, its open ports and its disk. Resume it and the processes carry on from the instruction they were on.

```sh
$ vakna suspend web
```

```prints
suspended web · compute not billed until it resumes 0.14s
```

## What a suspended box bills

Storage, not compute. The receipt shows the suspended time as a line of its own.