Downgrading from EDGE

[WireNine]

Is it possible?

I upgraded to EDGE on one of our beta servers for testing purposes and have noticed that cpanel 11 is a resource hog, the cpu/memory usage has increased A LOT. So I am wondering if downgrading from EDGE will break the installation, should we just do a clean cpanel install instead?

The CPU not as much but the memory usage has definitely increased.

 

[cPanelKenneth]

Once you upgrade to EDGE, the safest method of downgrading is to do a clean install. Sometimes you can safely downgrade, but it varies according to a plethora of variables that changes for every server.

 

[Nhojohl]

I've upgraded and downgraded multiple times on my CentOS 4 box... The trick is to downgrade by changing your upgrade settings to the version you want and then doing. /scripts/upcp in SSH and then doing /scripts/upcp --force immediatly after the last one.

The 1st time will downgrade most everything and the 2nd time will make sure you have all of your icons / skins / files correct.



Not a full proof plan but it's always worked for me.... Don't kill me if it doesn't work for you tho hehe.

 

[WireNine]

In this case downgrading from cpanel 11 to cpanel 10 is not possible?

 

[WireNine]

I was able to successfully downgrade using --force

 

[cPanelKenneth]

To clarify my earlier statement, one can always downgrade from any branch of cpanel to a lower branch (EDGE -> CURRENT for example). However, functionality gained at the higher level, is not always removed by a forced downgrade. This can cause unintended consequences during day-to-day usage of your server. Thus my recommendation to do a clean install when downgrading from EDGE.