Mini-guide: moving from cPanel to HestiaCP

Moving from cPanel to HestiaCP

So I did this at 3am last month because Contabo jacked their cpanel pricing again. Anyway here's what actually mattered.

the good:
- v-add-web-domain works fine once you stop typing cpanel commands out of muscle memory
- letsencrypt is automatic, idk why I do this but I scripted it anyway
- backups are just tarballs you can actually read

the gotchas:
- mail dns is WEIRD. Dkim keys live in /usr/local/hestia/data/users/ and you will forget this
- php-fpm pools default to ondemand which breaks some wordpress cron stuff
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v-rebuild-user

Migrated 6 sites, broke 2, fixed 1, the other is still redirecting to localhost somehow.

Will update if I survive the month.

Thanks for guide tallinnying! I moved two server from cpanel already. I think hestia is good for small project. But I never get mail working proper. Always some dns missing.

You use some migration script or manual copy? I tried rsync but broke all permission.