'Backwards' account migration from sPanel > cPanel

I agree, backwards compatibility should be seamless.

Is a must. If this happens, it will just make SPanel stronger

We needed this feature. Sometimes, when the client wants to use some additional features that do not exist inside the SPanel, like multiple languages, Arabic, Spanish, etc., they want to switch to a Cpanel to use these features; in that case, we are in trouble by manually moving the website toward them. We need a connection between the SPanel and Cpanel Via FTP to make this process easy to automate the migration of required files, MySQL, and emails. So there will be no chance to waste most of our time just for this migration. I have gone into details to make sure what we needed. Rest it's up to you @Vlad.

Hi Ali. We now support all those languages so this shouldn't be an issue anymore however I agree with you that it will be nice to have an option to move to cPanel if needed. The priority here is not high though as we rarely see someone moving back to cPanel these days, maybe 1 out of 1000+ websites, and we want to focus on building more exciting features so you have everything you need in SPanel. Is there anything specific you are currently missing except this backwards account migration?

No I don't see this need anymore because SPanel support all the required languages now. 

Agree, but it needs improvement like when you export from SPanel to CPanel it does not have the same clean impact as doing it from Cpanel to Spanel.

SPanel behaves incredibly well, at least for me, no need to move to CPanel, but what if one of your projects needs to move to a CPanel, that's extra work and this is why it will make things easier. Freedom to move to whatever my choice will be. That will make SPanel greater and competitive outside ScalaHosting

Hard agree with Jorge. The reason my client didn't choose Spanel despite the favourable Spanel pricing was to avoid building themselves into a corner if for some reason they ever wanted to migrate back to Cpanel. Allow users/stakeholders the freedom to come or go and many more will come.

That would be fantastic and SPanel would be an elite management panel at a very affordable price. It would displace cPanel’s hegemony.

This and generic S3 backups would go a long way to make spanel real alternative to cpanel 

There is really no demand for such functionality yet. 99.9% of people who switched to SPanel never looked back.

Im new in spanel, using a VPS to host 20 accounts. I´ve used cpanel for the last 10 years, and I feel spanel is really good for final user, but it´s lacking tons of features in my VPS managemente / previous WHM. I see a lot of topics out there, but most of them, are for regular users. I don´t see Scala giving real importance to users that host multiple accounts as myself.

Hello, Agustin!

We do our best to develop the features with the most demand first.

I think we are doing good as I see positive feedback from the many thousands of people using SPanel including hosting companies.

I encourage you to post your suggestions (each suggestion in a separate request) and we will gladly develop each of them if the demand is there.

Adding this will demonstrate the sPanel team’s confidence in their own product and allow many skeptical customers to give the product a try, as it creates zero risk. This feature will elevate sPanel to a whole new category.

There is really no demand in real life for such migrations. Whoever goes from cPanel to SPanel never looks back.

At the same time people need new features in SPanel and we are working on those where our time is better invested as more people will be positively affected and will get what they need.

Vlad - I'm ecstatic that you are confident in your product, but technically you're not really giving people a choice now, are you?

While I agree that investing development time is better spent improving and adding features to sPanel, I agree with Joel E that "zero risk" would instill trust. Trust that your product is superior and that it's not a "trap."

And that's really the point. The fact that someone can leave doesn't mean they will leave. In fact, knowing that they can leave is what makes many people comfortable making the move in the first place.

It's the same reason companies offer free trials, money-back guarantees, or easy cancellation. The goal isn't to encourage people to leave - it's to remove the fear of being stuck.

If sPanel is truly as good as you believe it is, then giving customers an easy path back to cPanel should actually work in sPanel's favor. It says, "We're so confident you'll prefer sPanel that we're willing to let you try it with nothing to lose."

And if, as you say, "whoever goes from cPanel to sPanel never looks back," then providing a migration-back option shouldn't create much additional demand for migrations anyway. It simply removes one of the biggest psychological barriers to switching.

That's not wasted development. That's a powerful statement of confidence in your own product.

I don't call it wasted development. We'll certainly get it done once we get to it. Right now we are focused on completing the Docker integration/support plus a feature called Smart Deploy which will allow people to deploy applications with a single click with SPanel automatically detecting the application and the steps necessary to deploy it. That brings Vercel-like functionality in SPanel built-in.

We are also working on building SkAI which will deliver MCP/API communication between SPanel and your favourite AI tool (Claude, Gemini, Grok, ChatGPT or your own model running on your infrastructure) plus hundreds of advantages and features which today cost you either hours of time or money, so once SkAI is launched "sky is the limit".

All of the above will be available in SPanel at no extra cost.

SPanel now supports the generation of backups that are compatible with the cPanel's backups and if you need such a backup generated for one or multiple accounts, please reach out to our technical support department.