Migration to Plesk

Applicable to:

Plesk

Question

How to migrate to Plesk?

Answer

It is possible to migrate directly to Plesk 12.5 or Plesk Onyx from

any older Plesk versions
other control panels
any other hosting environment

Migration to older Plesk versions is not recommended, as the Plesk Migrator extension introduced in Plesk 12.5 has many benefits and extended functionality compared to previous versions of migrator tools (PMM)

Migration options depending on Plesk versions are listed in the below table:

From:	To: Older Plesk versions	To: Plesk 12.5	To: Plesk Onyx
Plesk < 8.6	Not recommended, plan moving to Plesk 12.5 or Onyx	Migration with assistance	Migration with assistance
Plesk 8.6, 9.x	Not recommended, plan moving to Plesk 12.5 or Onyx	Migration via Plesk Migrator extension	Migration via Plesk Migrator extension
Plesk 10.4	Not recommended, plan moving to Plesk 12.5 or Onyx	In-place upgrade if OS is supported, otherwise - Migration via Plesk Migrator extension	Migration via Plesk Migrator extension
Plesk 11.x	Not recommended, plan moving to Plesk 12.5 or Onyx	In-place upgrade if OS is supported, otherwise - Migration via Plesk Migrator extension	In-place upgrade if OS is supported , otherwise - Migration via Plesk Migrator extension
Plesk 12.x	Not recommended, plan moving to Plesk 12.5 or Onyx	In-place upgrade if OS is supported, otherwise - Migration via Plesk Migrator extension	In-place upgrade if OS is supported , otherwise - Migration via Plesk Migrator extension
Other panel supported for migration from: For 12.5, For Onyx	Not recommended, plan moving to Plesk 12.5 or Onyx	Migration via Plesk Migrator extension	Migration via Plesk Migrator extension
Any other Panel or any hosting environment	Not recommended, plan moving to Plesk 12.5 or Onyx	Migration with assistance	Migration with assistance

If your control panel is the list of supported Panels for migration for 12.5, or for Plesk Onyx , the migration can be initiated from Plesk GUI after installing the Plesk Migrator extension.

The list of supported for migration from panels is:

• cPanel 11.5

• Confixx 3.3

• Helm 3

• Expand 2.3.2 (migration via CLI)

• Pro Control Panel 10.3.6

• DirectAdmin 1.51

If your control panel is not in the list above, the migration option is not shown in Plesk GUI. In such case, the migration is also possible but it should be done using a script that generates description of the source server’s hosting objects in YAML/JSON format ( for Linux and for Windows ). For these types of migrations, migration with assistance is recommended. Any migration to Plesk process can be represented with 7 steps: