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I will migrate directadmin to cpanel or any panel to cloudways or runcloud
Ahtsham Jutt
About this gig
You are going the direction nobody sells. DirectAdmin back to cPanel. A cPanel account onto Cloudways. Off RunCloud and back onto a server you control.
One thing about the platform moves. Cloudways and RunCloud run your application stack. Neither runs a mail server. Point the whole domain at the new host and incoming mail stops arriving, not bounced with a useful error, just delivered to a server nobody is listening on. Handling that is part of the job here, not an upsell you discover later.
How I stand behind it: domains, mailboxes and messages per folder counted on the source, counted again on the destination, both lists sent to you. Anything that does not match gets fixed before I deliver. The old server is left intact, so going back is a DNS change.
Included: files, databases with configs rewritten, mailboxes with folders and read status, forwarders and filters, DNS compared record by record, cron, SSL, PHP matched. Addon domains and subdomains are never billed as extra sites.
Not included: buying servers, licences or mail hosting, code rewrites, repairing sites broken before the move.
15 years, 5,000+ Linux servers, every panel in this title.
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Get to know Ahtsham Jutt
Ahtsham Jutt
I move hosting between servers and panels without losing your email
- FromPakistan
- Member sinceOct 2025
- Avg. response time1 hour
Languages
Urdu, Punjabi, English
I started in a hosting support queue in 2011, on the tickets nobody else wanted. The site is down, the backup is a week old, and whoever last touched the server has left.
Then seven years running my own hosting company, where there was nobody else to catch a mistake. Five more running the technical side of another one. Since 2023 I have been inside the migration team of a large US host, where a thousand accounts move overnight and the window does not move.
5,000+ Linux servers. 10,000+ clients. Mostly I move hosting between servers now, email included.
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FAQ
Do Cloudways and RunCloud host my email?
No. Both manage the application stack and neither runs a mail server. Cloudways sells mail as a paid third-party add-on. RunCloud leaves mail alone entirely. Your mailboxes need somewhere to go before you move, and sorting that is part of this.
Can you move me back off a managed platform?
Yes, and I do it often. There are no control panel accounts to restore, so the file layout, the database export and the mail all get handled separately. Back onto your own cPanel or DirectAdmin box, with the mail rebuilt on the new side.
DirectAdmin to cPanel, is that harder than the other way?
Different, not harder. Databases and users have to be renamed back off the DirectAdmin prefix, mail formats get converted before export, and DNS zones are rewritten rather than copied. It is routine once you have done a few hundred.
Will my sites go offline?
Not in a way visitors notice. Everything copies while the old server is still serving, DNS TTL comes down a day beforehand, and mail delivered to the old server during the switch is synced across afterwards. The real gap is minutes, not hours.
What if I do not have root on the old server?
Then the method changes and the price does not. A control panel backup plus manual restoration of files, databases, mail and DNS. It takes longer and needs more checking afterwards. Tell me what access you have in the order form.
Can you take a whole server, not one account?
Yes, up to five accounts on Premium. Past that, use my bulk migration gig, which is priced per account and drops as the count grows. Message me and I will point you at the right one.
What about Plesk, ServerPilot or GridPane?
All handled, in both directions. Plesk's migrator has predictable trouble with MySQL over sockets, SSH keys and MariaDB 11.4, so I usually let it do files and config and move the databases by hand instead of fighting it.
