Thinking on migrating from Cpanel

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Hey everyone, I have a Cpanel based reseller account, I'm thinking on migrating it to a DirectAdmin account of the same capacity.

I've been using Cpanel for the last 15 years and don't have any experience with DirectAdmin, that's why I'm a bit scared about I can find some limitation or missing feature that can break functionalities in my web sites.

For instance,

What web servers are supported?
Will I be able to select php version and install modules of my election as in Cpanel?
Does it have LetsEncrypt integration?
I guess migration is not possible without root access, is it?

Anything else you think I would need to be aware of?

That's what comes to my mind right now.
Thanks in advance for any input.
 
RR600 said:
What web servers are supported?
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Apache, Nginx, Litespeed, OpenLiteSpeed

RR600 said:
Will I be able to select php version and install modules of my election as in Cpanel?
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Selecting PHP version is easy with DirectAdmin. PHP modules can be installed with CustomBuild or CLI.

RR600 said:
Does it have LetsEncrypt integration?
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Yes, very easy to use.

RR600 said:
I guess migration is not possible without root access, is it?
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Correct. You need your own server to install DirectAdmin onto unless you purchase DirectAdmin web hosting.
 
Thanks for your answers.

jayw1 said:
Selecting PHP version is easy with DirectAdmin. PHP modules can be installed with CustomBuild or CLI.
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I don't know what CustomBuild is, but with CLI I assume you mean as super user, right? Remember, I won't have root access, it's a reseller account.
I ask because Cpanel allows custom PHP builds for regular users.
 
If you don't have root access then your php versions depends on the one your administrator/root has install this on the server.
I'm not sure that you can install php versions as reseller and for Custombuild you must be admin to use
 
RR600 said:
I'm thinking on migrating it to a DirectAdmin account of the same capacity.
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If you are migrating to another Hosts reseller platform you should ask them what all they support. They should be able to answer your specific questions.

If you are thinking of not being a reseller and owning it all yourself on DA. It appears you are not but hey never hurts to have more info.

Then I would read
https://forum.directadmin.com/threads/faq-for-directadmin-new-customers.58062/

and

How-to: cPanel to DA migration

As we're getting more and more questions on how to use https://forum.directadmin.com/showthread.php?t=52792&p=280613#post280613, I've decided to write this article to make it clear :) See the 2nd post if you'd just like to try it for a single or couple accounts. FAQ for new customers...
forum.directadmin.com forum.directadmin.com

The system basically has 3 levels in general
Admin
Reseller
User
The site help files might be helpful as well

DirectAdmin

DirectAdmin Web Control Panel Site-Helper. Helping you get the most out of DirectAdmin and your web site!
www.site-helper.com

I would look through both Reseller and User for you.
 
A little addition:
Will I be able to select php version and install modules of my election as in Cpanel?
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Not completely. In cPanel it's possible to have 1 php version with mod_php and mod_ruid2 next to other php versions with php-fpm.
In directadmin this is not possible. When using mod_ruid2 you can't have a multi-php selection.
If you want to use php-fpm it's no problem.
If you are no server admin c.q. you don't have root access, then it's what active8 already answered for you.

Does it have LetsEncrypt integration?
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Yes, but unless it's changed very recently, there is still no autossl functionality like cPanel has. But it is easy to setup Letsencrypt for domains.
 
RR600 said:
I ask because Cpanel allows custom PHP builds for regular users.
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cPanel never allow regullar user to build PHP. regular user only allow to change PHP version and add any php extension as need (Cloud Linux features). if you use Cloud Linux OS in directadmin, all Cloudlinux features are available too in your directadmin, as you see in cPanel
 
I successfully migrated all my sites this weekend.
Fortunately the DA panel had exactly the same PHP selector than Cpanel, that was my main concern.
Thank you all.
 
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