Migration guides
Moving panels, moving hosts, moving operating systems — without losing accounts.
14 articles in this category
Articles in migration guides
7 min
Migrate from R1Soft to JetBackup on cPanel servers
A parallel-run plan to move a cPanel fleet off R1Soft and onto JetBackup 5 — what transfers, what you rebuild from scratch, and how to cut over without a coverage gap.
2026-06-29
8 min
Migrate cPanel accounts between servers with JetBackup 5
Two ways to move cPanel accounts server-to-server with JetBackup 5 — live Clone Jobs over SSH and shared-destination restores — plus IP, package, and DNS gotchas.
2026-06-23
12 min
Migrate from CentOS Web Panel (CWP) to cPanel: full playbook
A field-tested migration off CentOS Web Panel onto cPanel & WHM — inventory the source, convert Postfix mail layouts, restore databases without prefix conflicts, cut DNS without breaking AutoSSL.
2026-05-21
13 min
Migrate from Virtualmin to cPanel: a practical playbook
A field-tested migration off Virtualmin (GPL or Pro) onto cPanel & WHM — inventory the source, prep the destination, move sites, mail, databases, and DNS without losing customer state.
2026-05-18
10 min
How to migrate from Plesk to cPanel without losing mail
A production playbook for moving Plesk subscriptions onto cPanel using WHM's Transfer Tool — pre-flight, batch runs, mail-filter rebuilds, DNS cutover, and the edge cases that bite real migrations.
2026-05-17
11 min
Migrate from HestiaCP to cPanel: a step-by-step playbook
A field-tested migration off HestiaCP onto cPanel & WHM — inventory the source, prep the destination, move sites, mail, and DNS without losing customer state.
2026-05-17
9 min
Migrate from CyberPanel to cPanel: a step-by-step playbook
A field-tested migration off CyberPanel onto cPanel — inventory the source, prep the destination, move sites, mail, and DNS with a 30-minute cutover window per site.
2026-05-17
8 min
WHM Transfer Tool: move cPanel accounts between servers
Use WHM's built-in Transfer Tool to move single accounts or an entire server's worth of users between cPanel boxes — SSH setup, Express Transfer, DNS cutover, and the failures you'll actually hit.
2026-05-16
5 min
Migrate WHMCS to Blesta: end-to-end checklist
End-to-end WHMCS-to-Blesta migration checklist covering fresh install, UTF8 collation fix, Import Manager run, and the auth_legacy_passwords cutover.
2026-05-16
5 min
Migrate from Nginx or Apache to LiteSpeed Web Server
Drop-in LSWS migration from Apache plus rewriting Nginx vhosts to LiteSpeed config, with cache validation and rollback steps.
2026-05-16
6 min
Migrating from DirectAdmin to cPanel without an importer
cPanel has no official DirectAdmin importer. Here is a tested sequence using DA admin backups, rsync, and whmapi1 to move accounts, mail, and DNS cleanly.
2026-05-16
5 min
Migrate cPanel accounts to InterWorx with mass transfer
How to import cPanel accounts into InterWorx with the mass transfer tool, plus what doesn't migrate (resellers, Softaculous data) and how to handle it.
2026-05-16
8 min
How to migrate from cPanel to Plesk without downtime
A production playbook for moving cPanel accounts to Plesk using the Plesk Migrator — pre-flight checks, sync mode, DNS cutover, and the gotchas that stall real migrations.
2026-05-15
7 min
Migrate a cPanel server from CentOS 7 to AlmaLinux 8
CentOS 7 has been past EOL since June 2024. Two paths to move a running cPanel server to AlmaLinux — in-place ELevate or fresh-install plus WHM transfer — with the trade-offs and the gotchas.
2026-05-15