Migrate CyberPanel with everything to a new CyberPanel on different VPS

General
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I have a website running using CyberPanel on Google Cloud. I want to transfer it to Alibaba Cloud. It took a lot of effort to setup and get running the existing CyberPanel so I don’t want to do it again.

Is there any way to transfer my CyberPanel to Alibaba Cloud with all configurations and websites and everything?

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Absolutely! Here’s the simple and straightforward way to move your entire CyberPanel setup (with all websites and configurations) from Google Cloud to Alibaba Cloud without reinstalling everything:

Step 1: Prepare your Alibaba Cloud server

  • Create a new VPS/instance on Alibaba Cloud with a compatible OS (same or similar to Google Cloud server)
  • Make sure you can SSH into it

Step 2: Backup your entire CyberPanel server on Google Cloud

  • SSH into your Google Cloud server
  • Create a full backup of CyberPanel including websites, databases, and configs

Run:

# Create a full archive of /home, /etc, /usr/local/CyberPanel and MySQL databases
tar czvf cyberpanel_backup_$(date +%F).tar.gz /home /etc /usr/local/CyberPanel

# Backup MySQL databases separately
mysqldump -u root -p --all-databases > alldb_backup.sql

Step 3: Transfer backups to Alibaba Cloud server

From your Alibaba Cloud server, run:

scp user@google-cloud-server:/path/to/cyberpanel_backup_YYYY-MM-DD.tar.gz /root/
scp user@google-cloud-server:/path/to/alldb_backup.sql /root/

Or use rsync or any other file transfer method you prefer.

Step 4: Restore backups on Alibaba Cloud server

  • SSH into Alibaba Cloud server

Run:

# Extract CyberPanel files
tar xzvf cyberpanel_backup_YYYY-MM-DD.tar.gz -C /

# Restore MySQL databases
mysql -u root -p < alldb_backup.sql

Step 5: Adjust server-specific configs and services

  • Check and update network settings, IP addresses, and hostnames if needed
  • Restart CyberPanel and related services:
systemctl restart lsws
systemctl restart mysql
systemctl restart cyberpanel

Step 6: Update DNS

  • Point your domain DNS records to the new Alibaba Cloud server IP

Notes:

  • Make sure Alibaba Cloud server has same software versions (PHP, MySQL, CyberPanel) or compatible ones
  • This method basically clones your server onto the new one
  • If CyberPanel is heavily customized, this will keep all configs and sites intact