For the past day or two I have been using the built-in cpanel-to-da tools on the latest RC. I think, literally just this morning there was another update. It's slowly getting better and better!
So, for most of my accounts I have been able to migrate my cpmove with these latest built-in DirectAdmin tools, and then I go back and assign the user an existing package that matches their old one because it was showing up as blank package. I don't think I've yet "fixed" the account owner/creator name (if I recall.. where it leaves the old cPanel value for reseller/owners..), but nearly all my sites now migrate 100% with no issues. Even complex WordPress sites move flawless as long as you have the required stuff compiled and you're using similar setup (like LiteSpeed cPanel to LiteSpeed DirectAdmin, etc.)
Many of my users are WordPress, and it's really nice having a little extra security option for scanning logs regarding WP security. Sure, there's plenty of plugins that exist for WordPress to protect itself, but it's really nice that DirectAdmin acknowledges what a PITA it is to keep a zillion WordPress sites free of hacks, and I trust anything scanned on the server-software level than a third party plugin running on the thing you want to protect in the first place! Really excited to see it in action and help make improvements and suggestions to it.
Making sure my various users WordPress plugins work (permissions correct, all required modules installed, etc.) are very important and so far it's been a breeze.
I'm also taking this time to jump another ship -- not only leaving cPanel, but we're leaving Softaculous behind (RIP Fantastico? What happened to them??), so instead of cPanel + Soft we're going full DirectAdmin + Installatron. They have maybe fewer apps, but they're more quality.
What I mean by this is, I know not all my users are going to want a full-blown WHMCS installation, or another copy of Roundcube (what the hell Soft? hehe). They're more basic, they want USER SCRIPTS not developer or enterprise scripts. Like a WordPress blog, or an online poll, or more file sharing, or a message board. They don't need to ever install Roundcube again, or need Postfix Admin, or unpopular "slim" blog apps (Sorry b2, egg, Dotclear, Leaf, FlatPress, LifeType... my clients barely keep up with WordPress!). Why do I need 70% of Softaculous to be idle and unused on all my servers because my clients don't use more than half of their products.
Not to get too off-topic, but speaking of Soft VS. Installatron, Softaculous base price direct from their website is $24/Year per dedicated ($12/Year VPS). Installatron base price is $50/Year per dedicated ($25/Year VPS). I think I'm done buying "lifetime" licenses. It's not really about saving money -- I want the support, and I want to support good developers. I can't imagine anyone running DirectAdmin from 3 years ago without seeing any new features just to save a few bucks. Pay these guys so you don't have to go back to Webmin like it's 1999. It's rare that a closed source company listens so closely to their user base. If I can run DirectAdmin for another 16 years like I previously ran cPanel/WHM, I'm going to be one really happy guy.
Where do I send bottles of champagne to? We're all going to need to celebrate: See Ya cPanel
It fully supports MySQL format, but not sqlite (which is likely the default now in cPanel?). We'll be working on it and inform you when a bugfix is available for that.
