surabayacandle
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Following. We are still on cPanel at my ISP and the licensing cost is becoming a problem for small clients. Hestia looks promising but I need to test mail relay reliability first.
Guía rápida: migrar de cPanel a Hestia sin morir en el intento
Debian 12 here too, migrated from cPanel at a UK host I will not name. The dovecot dsync method Fritz48 mentioned worked for 23 mailboxes with zero client-side reconfiguration. Took six hours for 14 GB of mail. Worth it.
Thread split request noted and denied. The billing tangent is three posts, contained, and relevant to migration decisions. If it grows we will revisit. @kat_fold keep the leash loose but ready.
Back on topic: has anyone here tried the Hestia API for bulk account creation? The web UI works but does not scale.
No logs, no proof. I have logs.
Hashes. cPanel uses MD5-based crypt, Hestia uses SHA-512. You cannot port the hashes, you must expire them. I sent users a forced-reset link via the panel's bulk mail tool. Painful but correct.
danfra said:
Known race on first start with systemd
That explains why my Debian box had no issue and a colleague's Ubuntu staging did. Good catch.
Neuland. Aber schnell.
API is documented at https://hestiacp.com/docs/server-administration/api.html but the examples are all bash curl. I wrapped it in a 40-line Python script for our last migration, can share if wanted. @cleardmitri
@arjundirect how did the second attempt go?
~be kind or be gone~
arjundirect
Member
Basically it worked basically I just ran the official install script without adding extra repos basically
Now I am at phase 3 basically my mysql databases imported fine but basically one wordpress site shows database connection error basically I checked wp-config.php and the password looks encrypted or hashed basically not the actual password basically what do
nate_pad
Member
That is not encrypted, that is base64 with extra characters from a bad export. Happened to me. Open the cPanel backup archive, find the mysql file in
mysql/user.sqlSame here on the zombie charges. Two years of "site backup daily" at 4.99 when I had my own rsync to Hetzner. Never noticed because it was below the auto-pay threshold I checked manually.
This.
arjundirect said:
One wordpress site shows database connection error
Check if the database user was created with the old hostname prefix. cPanel uses
cpuser_dbuseradmin_dbuserNeuland. Aber schnell.