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Migrate from Plesk

From Plesk to SWPanel, in five steps

You give SWPanel your Plesk server's IP and the root password. It logs in, shows you the hosting plans there and brings the ones you select, with their domains, accounts, databases and configuration. Without you having to copy anything by hand.

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  • The IP and the root password
  • You choose which plans to bring
  • Nothing is launched until the end
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SWPanel wizard: access details for your Plesk, with the IP and the root password

Before you start

What you need and what is brought over

That's how the wizard itself explains it: “SWPanel logs in as root, reads the server's hosting plans and brings the ones you choose to one of your Clouds.”

What you need

  • The Plesk server's IP.
  • The root user's password. The wizard always logs in as root.
  • A SWPanel Cloud to put the services on: you choose it in the first step.
  • Port 3306 open on the Plesk server and remote access to the databases enabled, to copy them.
  • That the destination Cloud doesn't already have a service with the same name as one of those you're bringing.

What is brought over

  • The hosting plans you select, one by one or all at once.
  • Their domains and accounts.
  • Their databases.
  • Their configuration.

More detail in the How to migrate my Plesk server to SWPanel manual.

Step by step

This is how you migrate from Plesk, in five steps

Real screenshots of the SWPanel 2027 wizard. We have blurred the Clouds' IPs and the email.

Step 1

Choose the destination Cloud

All your SWPanel Clouds in a list, with their plan and data center. You mark which one you want to put what comes from Plesk on. At the top, a search by name, domain or IP.

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Step 1: list of SWPanel Clouds to choose the destination of the migration from Plesk

Step 2

Enter the access details for your Plesk

The server's IP and the root password. With “Verify Plesk content”, SWPanel logs in to the server to read its domains.

  • The user is always root
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Step 2: Plesk server IP, root user and password

Step 3

Select the hosting plans you want to bring

Once SWPanel has read the server, the hosting plans you have created in Plesk appear here. You select the ones you want to migrate, or all of them.

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Step 3: selection of the Plesk hosting plans

Step 4

Tell us where to notify you

The email we write to when it finishes or if the migration stops. It comes pre-filled with your account's: change it if you want the notice to go to someone else.

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Step 4: email for the notice when the migration finishes

Step 5

Review and start

Everything you've chosen in a list, each line with its “Change”. Nothing is launched until you click “Start migration”.

  • You see at a glance what's missing
  • Nothing is deleted from the source
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Step 5: review of the migration from Plesk before starting it

While it migrates and after

From migration to DNS

  1. Follow it in SWPanel

    In Tools › to migrate Websites › Manage migrations you see each migration and what stage it's at. It takes more or less time depending on the size of what you're bringing.

  2. We'll notify you when it finishes

    To the email you put in “Notify when finished”. You don't need to leave the screen open.

  3. Test it before touching the DNS

    Nothing is deleted from the source. Point the domain to the new IP only on your computer, using the “hosts” file, and review the website in SWPanel while your visitors stay on the usual server.

  4. Change the DNS when it's right

    When everything works, you point the domain to SWPanel. Afterwards, remove the line from the “hosts” file.

If something doesn't work as on the source server, check that the PHP and web server of the hosting in SWPanel have the same version and configuration as there. That's what the wizard itself advises, in “While migrating”.

Don't have the root password?

Use the migration from “Any hosting”: with the website's FTP or SSH (in Plesk it's usually in /httpdocs), its database details and, if you want, the mailboxes.

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Frequently asked questions

About migrating from Plesk

Yes. After verifying access, the wizard lists the hosting plans on the Plesk server and you tick the ones you want, or all of them at once.

The wizard does not ask for a specific version: it needs the IP, the root password and that SWPanel can connect to the server and its databases. If you have doubts about an old Plesk, ask support first through Immediate Help.

It depends on the size of what you bring over. You follow it in Manage migrations and we email you when it finishes.

While it migrates, the website stays on your Plesk server: visitors do not reach SWPanel until you change the DNS. That is why it is worth testing it first with the “hosts” file.

If something does not behave as it did on the source server, check that the PHP and web server of the hosting in SWPanel have the same version and configuration as there. This is what the wizard itself advises, under “While it migrates”.
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