minukube/kubernetes error: The connection to the server ***:8443 was refused - did you specify the right host or port?

Question

linux

Deployed minikube on "cloud hosting" (read VPS). Ubuntu, docker, minikube.
When the server itself crashes, an error occurs:

The connection to the server 199.66.111.8:8443 was refused - did you specify the right host or port?

Answer 1

1) Check if docker is running? If not, then run.

service docker status
service docker restart

2) Check if kubelet is running? If not, we start.

service kubelet status
service kubelet restart

3) Disable swap:
swapoff -a