Migrating from cPanel to CyberPanel: A System Admin's Guide

The cPanel Price Hike Problem

In recent years, cPanel moved from a per-server pricing model to a per-account pricing model. For agencies hosting hundreds of small WordPress sites on a single VPS, their monthly licensing fees quadrupled overnight.

CyberPanel is completely free (open-source) and integrates natively with OpenLiteSpeed. This makes it the absolute best alternative for WordPress agencies looking to maximize ROI.

Migration Overview

While there is no "Magic Wand" 1-click migration that perfectly converts everything without human intervention, CyberPanel provides an excellent command-line utility to pull cPanel accounts via SSH.

Step 1: Prepare the Source (cPanel) Server

Generate a full backup of the accounts you wish to migrate on your cPanel server.

1. Log into WHM.
2. Ensure you know the root password for the server.
3. Keep the server online.

Step 2: Prepare the Destination (CyberPanel) Server

Deploy a fresh AmanaFlow VPS running Ubuntu 22.04 and install CyberPanel.

sh <(curl https://cyberpanel.net/install.sh || wget -O - https://cyberpanel.net/install.sh)

Follow the interactive prompts to install OpenLiteSpeed, Memcached, and Redis.

Step 3: Pushing Accounts Automatically

CyberPanel provides an internal tool specifically designed to fetch cPanel accounts. Log into your new CyberPanel VPS via SSH as root:

cyberpanel cPanelImport

The script will prompt you for:

• The IP address of the cPanel server.
• The root password of the cPanel server.
• Which specific cPanel usernames to import.

Step 4: Post-Migration DNS Fixes

The biggest issue when migrating panels is DNS.

1. The tool will parse the cpmove.tar.gz files and extract databases, public_html, and email accounts.
2. You must log into your Domain Registrar (or Cloudflare) and point the domain's A-Record to the new CyberPanel IP address.

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Validating LiteSpeed Cache

Once the DNS propagates, log into the WordPress dashboard of the migrated site.

1. Uninstall whatever older caching plugin was used (WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache).
2. Install the free LiteSpeed Cache plug-in from the repository.
3. Enable object caching via the Redis instance you installed in Step 2.

FAQs

Q: Will CyberPanel migrate my emails perfectly?
A: Usually, yes. CyberPanel extracts the Maildir directories from the cPanel archive. However, email passwords sometimes require resetting due to different hashing algorithms.