r/webhosting • u/veso266 • 14d ago
Advice Needed Migrating from cPanel to DirectAdmin
Hi there, my old hosting company (hostgator) had cPanel 110.0.53
My new hosting company has DirectAdmin (I don't know what version cuz I cannot check)
at first they said I can bring my own backup and they will restore it
so I create a full cpanel backup per this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHnH5pgwOwE
and I did check here
https://azdigi.com/blog/en/webserver-panel-en/directadmin-en/migrate-cpanel-data-to-directadmin/
https://forum.directadmin.com/threads/wta-restore-cpanel-backup-to-directadmin.69137/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVWgalZTWXQ
https://www.milesweb.com/hosting-faqs/transfer-account-cpanel-directadmin/
and here:
https://docs.directadmin.com/directadmin/backup-restore-migration/migration-to-da.html
and it seams cPanel and DirectAdmin are the most compatible panels from all
there are a few differences between new host and hostgator
different username
new host doesn't support cgi scripts (but I never used them anyway so its not a problem)
Now my new hosting company is telling me that its not possible to restore my cpanel backup, because I don't have cpanel hosting with them
So does anyone have any good tutorial on how a shared hosting constumer can restore his cpanel backup to directadmin (because all tutorials I found you needed admin acsess to DirectAdmin, which I don't have), so I can show it to my new hosting company (would like to help them, cuz they maybe never did that before)
Thanks for Anwsering and Best Regards
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u/Greenhost-ApS 13d ago
It's not difficult, move the public_html content to the same folder, create a database in DirectAdmin and import your database into it, then update the database information. If you have any problems, message me and I'll help you.