Migration to Plesk

Question

How to migrate to Plesk?

Answer

It is possible to migrate directly to 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:

If your control panel is the list of supported Panels for migration 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:

Details of each step can be found in Migration Process Guide that is available for download from Professional Services page.

Additional information

Plesk Migration Process Guide

What is Plesk Migrator

Plesk Migration Documentation

Limitations of the Plesk migrator extension

Plesk for Linux: Migration Best Practices and Use Cases

Plesk for Windows: Migration Best Practices and Use Cases