diff --git a/pingora-core/src/server/mod.rs b/pingora-core/src/server/mod.rs
index ed8e762c9..1e1eb7dc3 100644
--- a/pingora-core/src/server/mod.rs
+++ b/pingora-core/src/server/mod.rs
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ impl Server {
 
     /// Start the server
     ///
-    /// This function will block forever until the server needs to quit. So this would be the last
+    /// This function will block forever until the server needs to quit or reload. So this would be the last
     /// function to call for this object.
     ///
     /// Note: this function may fork the process for daemonization, so any additional threads created
diff --git a/pingora/examples/server_reload.rs b/pingora/examples/server_reload.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..352448fc8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pingora/examples/server_reload.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+use log::{error, info};
+use pingora::protocols::TcpKeepalive;
+use pingora::server::configuration::Opt;
+use pingora::server::Server;
+use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicBool, Ordering};
+use std::sync::Arc;
+use std::time::Duration;
+use tokio::signal::unix;
+
+mod app;
+mod service;
+
+pub fn main() {
+    env_logger::Builder::new()
+        .filter_level(log::LevelFilter::Info)
+        .init();
+
+    let rt = tokio::runtime::Builder::new_multi_thread()
+        .worker_threads(1)
+        .enable_all()
+        .build()
+        .unwrap();
+
+    let args_opt = Opt::parse_args();
+
+    rt.block_on(async move {
+        let mut reload_signal = unix::signal(unix::SignalKind::hangup()).unwrap();
+        let upgrade = Arc::new(AtomicBool::new(args_opt.upgrade));
+        let conf_filename = args_opt.conf;
+
+        loop {
+            let conf_filename = conf_filename.clone();
+            let upgrade = upgrade.clone();
+            let task = tokio::spawn(async move {
+                let opt = Opt {
+                    conf: conf_filename,
+                    upgrade: upgrade.load(Ordering::SeqCst),
+                    ..Opt::default()
+                };
+                let opt = Some(opt);
+                let mut my_server = Server::new(opt).unwrap();
+                my_server.try_bootstrap().unwrap();
+
+                let mut echo_service_http = service::echo::echo_service_http();
+
+                let mut options = pingora::listeners::TcpSocketOptions::default();
+                options.tcp_fastopen = Some(10);
+                options.tcp_keepalive = Some(TcpKeepalive {
+                    idle: Duration::from_secs(60),
+                    interval: Duration::from_secs(5),
+                    count: 5,
+                });
+
+                echo_service_http.add_tcp_with_settings("0.0.0.0:6145", options);
+                my_server.add_service(echo_service_http);
+
+                let server_task =
+                    tokio::task::spawn_blocking(move || match my_server.run_server(false) {
+                        Ok(reload) => {
+                            info!("Reload: {}", reload);
+                        }
+                        Err(e) => {
+                            error!("Failed to run server: {}", e);
+                        }
+                    });
+                server_task.await.unwrap();
+            });
+
+            tokio::select! {
+                _ = reload_signal.recv() => {
+                    #[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
+                    {
+                        upgrade.store(true, Ordering::SeqCst);
+                    }
+                    #[cfg(not(target_os = "linux"))]
+                    {
+                        info!("Upgrade is only supported on Linux");
+                    }
+                }
+                _ = task => {
+                    info!("Server task finished");
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    });
+    rt.shutdown_background();
+}