I recently restored a full cpanel backup to an AWS EC2 instance unsuccessfully. This backup was created not by myself, but someone who hacked my VPS and locked out everyone including Bluehost and wrecked my home network for two months. Recently I found a cpmove file on an FTP account I did not place there. The backup worked, kind of, bc it was for a domain that i never really owned in the first place- Bluehost automatically issued this example.net as the primary. The domain I still own example.com had to be created as a subdomain. I see in phpmyadmin and dns records that example.com was migrated. However, I cannot access my site. The nameservers were updated properly, though it has not yet been 48 hours...So Im hoping that maybe it will just take more time for the NS to transition for my site to work.
Either way, what Im trying to figure out is what I need to do to isolate the example.com-associated databases or other files in cpanel and then have a cpanel instance of that domain only. I have very limited experience with site restoration and Im dealing with a potentially malicious data set. During my hack I was left only one wordpress backup later found to have infected code in it. I've been burned once and don't want a repeat.
I realize this is more of a basic stackexchange.com question but I was just hoping to accomplish all this within cpanel rather than setting up a VM and learning the steps and software necessary to do what I wish from the cpmove backup file. I dont even know if thats possible. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Ive been without this site for almost a year now and am ready to have it back. Thanks.
Either way, what Im trying to figure out is what I need to do to isolate the example.com-associated databases or other files in cpanel and then have a cpanel instance of that domain only. I have very limited experience with site restoration and Im dealing with a potentially malicious data set. During my hack I was left only one wordpress backup later found to have infected code in it. I've been burned once and don't want a repeat.
I realize this is more of a basic stackexchange.com question but I was just hoping to accomplish all this within cpanel rather than setting up a VM and learning the steps and software necessary to do what I wish from the cpmove backup file. I dont even know if thats possible. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Ive been without this site for almost a year now and am ready to have it back. Thanks.
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