Transferring Reseller Account Between CPanel Servers
Feb 5, 2007
I have 2 cPanel servers with root access and I want to move a reseller account (and about 100 very small domain accounts under it) to the other server. What is the best way to do this and how would be the process ? I guess there is an easier way to migrate it rather than by moving individual domain accounts.
I am trying to transfer someone from Plesk 8.2.1 to cPanel/WHM 11.23. The client that is on Plesk does not seem to have root access because I tried the WHM built in transfer from another server feature and it wasnt working. It said password was incorrect but it was the main password.
So any thoughts on how i can transfer everything safely?
I am trying to transfer a customer account from a remote server (both servers run Cpanel) and I get this error message
Logged to my server I got this message
Packaging the account... The password you provided is not correct.
Trace Output: (bmilatco@66.29.76.xx's password: Last login: Fri Oct 5 21:06:50 2007 from 64.22.69.xx
-jailshell-3.00$ export LANG=C ; setenv LANG C ; echo ${LANG}_SSH_CLIENT=${SS
Done Transfer Error Unable to package account
<<< The account password is correct as I can login to Cpanel.
I am also able to login via ssh and trying to package the account I got this message
-jailshell-3.00$ ./pkgacct bmilatco pkgacct started. pkgacct version 6.0 - running with uid 32092 using time::hires for speedups Fri Oct 5 21:12:42 2007 die [cPScript::Config]: Unable to create /etc/wwwacct.conf at cPScript/Logger.pm line 35 cPScript::Logger::cplog('Unable to create /etc/wwwacct.conf', 'die', 'cPScript::Config') called at cPScript/Config.pm line 262 cPScript::Config::loadwwwacctconf() called at ./pkgacct line 1046 main::getmntpoint() called at ./pkgacct line 160 [cPScript::Config]: Unable to create /etc/wwwacct.conf
how can I transfer this account, I jsut have the customer password and Cpanel backups are not availables?
I was just wondering if someone has made a new tool/script yet that will allow yo to transfer CPanel accounts in bulk (not the old way of doing them one by one) to another server (VPS/Dedicated) without having root access?
Like I know in order to use the WHM's transfer from server to server you need root access on both servers, but I'm asking, if you have a Reseller account, and a VPS/Dedicated server, I know last time I checked the only way to transfer accounts over was by making a Backup file for each account and then transfering it over which can take a while if you are doing a lot of accounts.
I have 2 domains under the SAME vps, and just want to copy all the folders under one domain to the other. I don't want to download them and re-upload them as there are way too many. Is there an easy way to copy a select amount of folders in another way from one account to another? (I don't want to copy the entire account, just certain folders).
I'm curious, how do you all Cpanel server owners setup reseller accounts for clients? I find myself doing it this way (providing 2 static IP's, for ns1/ns2)
1. create reseller account 2. ssh > edit nameserverips and manually add ns1/ns2 to the two select IP's of choice 3. change account IP to first main static IP, in whm
Any one else do it this way, or another method? I use WHMCS also, which creates the account automatically, but I have to edit nameserverips and appy ns1/ns2 manually in whm (A dns zone) manually.
Also, I'm wanting to upgrade some of the PHP 4 / MYSQL 4 boxes to PHP 5 / MYSQL 5. Is it worth it, or not? If yes, what methods could I use to assure no side effects for some clients' scripts, or at least some method to help them should an issue arise?
I have a reseller account and one of my customers overloads server. How do hosting providers act in such situations? Will only this customer or all customers within my reseller package be suspended in this case?
still newbie question, if I use whmcs for my billing system, I see the client always start with typing in a domain, if they choose a new domain, what will I do with it? do I have to get a domain reseller account to deal with it?
I know how to make backups and to transfer each client account separately, but I am just wondering if it is possible to transfer all customer accounts in WHM at once. You see, if for example I have more than 200 customers (hosting accounts) and wish to switch to another hosting company it will be difficult for me to transfer each account separately, that’s why I am asking this question. Has anyone had reseller account transfer experience?
I didn't know where to put this question so please forgive me if it is the wrong section.
I received an email yesterday from the abuse department of my reseller hosting saying I was overusing the resources. I asked what was causing this as my sites are small and built with cubecart.
I got a reply today asking me about something called mode.exe which is causing load and increasing limits at Average usage stats.
I have no idea what this is so can any of you tell me what it is and how I can resolve this issue as the abuse person recommended a VPS package to me which will cost me a fortune and is something I really shouldn't need for such small sites.
I currently have a series of websites hosted with HostGator. The thing is, having a series of shared hosting plans starts to add up after a while. What I was considering was purchasing a reseller account (which will save us about $15/month) and then just hosting all our websites from there, obviously, not reselling the plans, just using them internally. For the savings, it seems like a logical thing to do. When we purchased shared plans, I bought bigger plans than we need, expecting the sites to grow (which some have, others have not).
Has anyone done this? Do you suggest it? Would there be a better way than buying a reseller account (We can't afford a dedicated server quite yet)?