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Transferring Accounts

A transfer brings an account from another server while that server is still running: CorePanel connects to the source, pulls the account and recreates it here, with live progress in the Transfers tab. Nothing has to be downloaded or copied by hand, and the source is not suspended — what happens to it afterwards is your decision.

Moving an archive is the other way to bring an account over: the source makes a backup, the file reaches this server, and it is restored or imported here. It works with any source that can produce an archive, and does not need this server to reach the old one.

The Transfers tab of Backup & Transfers: two choices at the top — "cPanel/WHM, with root" (your own server, or one whose root password you have; several accounts at once), selected, and "cPanel, with the account's login" (shared hosting: only the cPanel username and password of one account) — and below them the "Import account from cPanel" wizard on its first step, Connect, with fields for the server hostname or IP, the SSH port 22, the SSH username root and the SSH password, and a Connect button

Which way, from which server

Section titled “Which way, from which server”
SourceWhat you haveHowCovered in
cPanel/WHMRoot on the source serverLive, over SSH. One account or many at once, with an optional DNS cut-over at the endLive pull over SSH
cPanel, shared hostingOnly one account’s cPanel username and passwordLive, over cPanel’s own HTTPS port. One account at a time; a reseller can run it for their own customersWith the account’s own login
cPanelA cpmove-*.tar.gz or a cPanel full backupUpload it, then import itUploading an archive
Another CorePanel serverAdmin on both serversA backup of the account, restored here — through a shared destination or an uploaded fileMoving to another server

The three cPanel routes feed the same import engine, so what arrives and which passwords survive are the same whichever you use. Importing cPanel accounts covers that engine in full: its scope, how passwords are preserved, the report, and what to check after the import.

Before you start

Section titled “Before you start”
  • Review before it writes. Every route ends in a review of what it is about to create, and lets you choose what happens when an account or domain already exists on this server. Read it: a domain that is already here is the usual collision.
  • Room on this server. The account needs its full size here, on top of the free space the hosted sites already rely on.
  • DNS decides when the move is over. Until the domains point here, the source keeps receiving mail and visitors. Only the live pull from cPanel/WHM can repoint them for you; in every other case it is a change you make at the source or the registrar.
  • The reverse road exists. An account can leave CorePanel too: Exporting for cPanel.