How long does it take to move cPanel to new hosting?

Someone asked me earlier about how long on average it takes to move a cPanel account to a new web hosting provider on average? I have never moved a cPanel account from one host to another so I couldn't give him an answer so I thought some of the experts here can give a little input as to what kind of time frame this usually takes.

So, How long does it take to move cPanel to new hosting?

This is for a shared web hosting service.

Hi, It depends on number of factors.
1) size
2) complexity & compatibility
3) Method of backup and restoration!
4) Network speed at both ends
5) How co-operative and responsive the staff is.

As you will find out that, time varies case by case basis, few minute to few hours; sometimes a whole day!

He has either 2 or 3 small WordPress websites that are not too big. If I had to make an educated guess I would say that they are in the neighborhood of 1-1.5 GB total. I'm not a hundred percent sure but they should be close to that.

The backup would be afull backup through cPanel.

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If you are using cpanel migration tools, It should not take more than 5 minutes. Again, it depends on data transit speed*
Take a look at this tutorial.

About 10 minutes If you have full cPanel backups.
The longest part of it will be how long the host takes to restore the account.

I have same question with @Gecko but they are on a VPS with 50GB of storage.
with this amount, how long does it take to move all data to a new hosting that also using cPanel.
What steps do I need to follow for a complete move?

I have same question with @Gecko but they are on a VPS with 50GB of storage.
with this amount, how long does it take to move all data to a new hosting that also using cPanel.
What steps do I need to follow for a complete move?

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consideration, migration from one cpanel VPS to another cpanel VPS.

1. Before starting migration, make sure new VPS is production ready.
2. Make full backup of accounts[No need to download them].
3. Visit Transfer Tools section in New VPS now.
4. Follow instruction and move single / multiple accounts at a time.

Migration and restoration time differs as per size and transit speed.

Its depend on your internet speed and hosting provider speed. Once you download file to your PC and transfer file to your new host then it can take few minute.

- Size of website (2GB to 3GB is not to much but If server is slow then it can take hours and If you host it on healthy and good server then it will take only 5 minute to 10 minute)

Gecko said:

Someone asked me earlier about how long on average it takes to move a cPanel account to a new web hosting provider on average? I have never moved a cPanel account from one host to another so I couldn't give him an answer so I thought some of the experts here can give a little input as to what kind of time frame this usually takes.

So, How long does it take to move cPanel to new hosting?

This is for a shared web hosting service.

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Propagation takes 24 hours but as for the initial transfer id say an hour.

cloudean said:

If you are using cpanel migration tools, It should not take more than 5 minutes. Again, it depends on data transit speed*

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Wow, only 5 minutes! The data transit speeds should be pretty fast though, correct?

LJSHost said:

The longest part of it will be how long the host takes to restore the account.

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That should't take long though should it? A few minutes maybe?

Dewlance said:

Size of website (2GB to 3GB is not to much but If server is slow then it can take hours)

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Hours, that long? Do the server resources that are allocated to the account have any kind of impact at all on transfers?

R Langley said:

the initial transfer id say an hour.

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Are you meaning from when you first start the transfer or from when you submit a ticket/contact support?

The other thing to look for is do the old host side has enough space to create a tar file while we create a back.
regarding backup in such case we normally suggest our client it can take from 20 minutes to couple of hours time depending on data size , network speed at old host name from the time we get all the necessary details ( login details) from the client.

Wow, only 5 minutes! The data transit speeds should be pretty fast though, correct?

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It's not just about speed, connectivity also does matters.

Hours, that long? Do the server resources that are allocated to the account have any kind of impact at all on transfers?

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Transfer tools are not much resource extensive; consumes servers available resources!
It has nothing to do with resources, bandwidth limits assigned to your shared account.

Most important is, how quick support staff responds to your requests at both providers end.

Depending on a number of factors as stated above. Could take anywhere from 5 minutes to 2-3 hours.

There are 2 methods you can do.
1- get a full cpanel backup and restore it via WHM
2- Use WHM and use the account transfer with there details and get WHM to drag the files over.

If you are migrating from WHM Transfer Tool it will complete within 10 minutes.

webhostuk said:

The other thing to look for is do the old host side has enough space to create a tar file while we create a back.

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Wouldn't all hosts have enough space for that?

cloudean said:

Transfer tools are not much resource extensive;

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So the main thing is just the transfer speeds at the host, correct?

Dewlance said:

If server load is heavy then it will be take long time to transfer regardless of allocated resource to the account because of when you transfer/restore a account then it use main server resource instead of account resource.

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Then if it's a shared hosting account and the server has a lot of accounts on it using up resources then that would dictate how fast a transfer can be done?

HostYourNet-DR said:

There are 2 methods you can do.
1- get a full cpanel backup and restore it via WHM
2- Use WHM and use the account transfer with there details and get WHM to drag the files over.

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Si there one method that is better or faster than the other method?

hoangrapsoul said:

Its depend on your internet speed and hosting provider speed. Once you download file to your PC and transfer file to your new host then it can take few minute.

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Doesn't it also depend on the load of the server where the account is being moved to?

liveinhost said:

If you are migrating from WHM Transfer Tool it will complete within 10 minutes.

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Are you meaning where the new host deals directly with the old hosting account without the client needing to upload anything?

So the main thing is just the transfer speeds at the host, correct?

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Nope. It does matters how many resources are free at the time.
data transit speed and connectivity only take care of download of backup from one server to another.
backup restoration do require little resources. time differs case by case basis.

1) manual : you will create full / partial backup and download > upload to new server file manager > restore backup by yourself or raise ticket if wish for restoration done by hosting provider.
This is time consuming process and required time depends on responsiveness of support staff(If want it to done by provider). [provider will use only backup restoration tools]

2) Auto (shared hosting) : In this process you create full backup and keep in old hosting provider > raise ticket at new hosting provider requesting full backup restoration. you will require to provide your cpanel login details of old hosting account. [provide will use transfer tools]

3) Auto (VPS) : If you have whm panel access on both hosting provider, Yes. this can be done within few minutes by using transfer tools by yourself.

Timeframe : case 1, 2 : An hour minimum
case 3 : Few minutes

Wouldn't all hosts have enough space for that?

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Its not about the server space I am talking about, its about the account that needs to be transferred, the space allocated to that account needs to be enough to get the tar file generated if thats not enough space then backup process wont complete and delay the transfer.

The transfer of cPanel from old hosting provider to new hosting provider depends on multiple factors.
The hosting plan that one has chosen, compatibility of the network between the new hosting provider and previous web host, the support staff and implementation of transfer process by the hosting providers. Once the cPanel data transfer is completely over then, one can cancel the old cPanel hosting plan.

New as well as old server should have enough space to create extra tar file and restore that on new server.

Gecko said:

Someone asked me earlier about how long on average it takes to move a cPanel account to a new web hosting provider on average? I have never moved a cPanel account from one host to another so I couldn't give him an answer so I thought some of the experts here can give a little input as to what kind of time frame this usually takes.

So, How long does it take to move cPanel to new hosting?

This is for a shared web hosting service.

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Basically, its depend on the size of the cpanel or you can say size of the backup of cpanel. There are plenty of ways to transfer cpanel to another hosting provider:
1. manually transfer by using backup wizard - very time consuming process
2. Transfer through shell - Little quicker (drawback : some hosting doesn't provide access to shell for security reason)
3. Transfer through WHM - Easy and simple way and not take much time.
4. rsync ( I believe this is the best and quickest method to transfer anything from one server to another)

So I always prefer rsync for any kind of transfer, because rsync providing maximum transfer speed as per your network connection speed. For example if you have data of 10gb then it will take 30-45mins on 500mbps connection.

HosterDaddy said:

Basically, its depend on the size of the cpanel or you can say size of the backup of cpanel. There are plenty of ways to transfer cpanel to another hosting provider:
1. manually transfer by using backup wizard - very time consuming process
2. Transfer through shell - Little quicker (drawback : some hosting doesn't provide access to shell for security reason)
3. Transfer through WHM - Easy and simple way and not take much time.
4. rsync ( I believe this is the best and quickest method to transfer anything from one server to another)

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Does the old/losing hosting provider have any input on how the transfer is done?

HostYourNet-DR said:

I have a client with a back up file of 80gb compressed this takes about 12 hours to restore.

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Wow, that's longer than I thought. Is the process a set-it and forget-it so you just have to start the process and let it complete or do you need to do anything along the way?