On Importing Website, Skip DB Import and Enable

jeffkee

Many existing cPanel/Plesk users have already moved to using a secondary database server (RDS being a dominant one). There was a lot of requests from the cPanel user community to enable RDS support to separate the DB from the PHP/HTTP layer, and use memcache or that DB Layer cache at AWS (Elasticache?) in between.

In these scenarios, the database config file has an external hostname for the DB access (not "localhost" or "127.0.0.whatever")

Reasons why we'd want the existing RDS as-is:

Separate RDS means we can up/downscale that instance without modifying the main container.
We've already paid for a 3 yr savings plan commitment for the RDS instance, and want to keep it.
Why not? Snapshot backups at cloud level is reliable, less headache.

So in these cases, migrating over the PHP/DNS configurations is enough, and simply skip the MySQL import.

This would be a total waste anyway, as all of our PHP apps have an external RDS address configured, so the imported MySQL would not even be used/accessed unless we change the config.php file of each website.

jeffkee

I'd also like to add, I'm a very long term (20+ years) user of cPanel, with hundreds of websites.

We have a tonne of experience working with cPanel, moved from dedicated hosts (Inmotion, Rackspace) to AWS cloud, and can offer a lot of insights on what was great, what was challenging, and even some problems/issues we had with server migrations over the years.

I'm stoked to transfer all of our websites to Enhance eventually after we verify. We have a lot of Wordpress sites, but mostly our own LAMP stack CMS which is the backbone of our business, and I believe my feedback can actually dramatically improve how popular Enhance can be (and poach a LOT of cPanel/Plesk users over to you!)

I'd be happy to actually donate my time 1-on-1 with your dev team if you like to walkthrough, live troubleshoot, and give client feedback - I'm sure you can find my direct contact through my user account here.

jeffkee

I think if i disable MySQL backup as part of the backup at the cPanel level, and use those gz files, it solves this problem.