diff --git a/roles/service-nginx/templates/ssl_certs.cron.j2 b/roles/service-nginx/templates/ssl_certs.cron.j2
index a2c97fa..e7425c1 100644
--- a/roles/service-nginx/templates/ssl_certs.cron.j2
+++ b/roles/service-nginx/templates/ssl_certs.cron.j2
@@ -17,4 +17,4 @@ done
 chown -R www-data:admin $LOCAL_DIR
 
 #restart
-systemctl reload nginx.service
+systemctl reload nginx.service || systemctl start nginx.service