Upgrading to Centos 6 from 5

[tdivito]

I'm working on how I am going to upgrade my hosted VPS running cpanel and Centos 5 to 6. The hosting company I have has told me they would do this by erasing my current server entirely, and installing Centos 6 from scratch. They said I will need to back everything up, and restore all of my user accounts at that time. The problem is that I have a bunch of large client folders (many GB each) and don't have enough bandwidth where I live to download and upload all the clients in a timely manor. I was thinking about purchasing a second VPS for a month from the same company, so that I have access to the files locally on their servers so once Centos6 is done, I can just move everything back quickly. My question is 1. does anyone have a better way of doing this? and 2. if not, does anyone see any problems with using cpanel's transfer tools to move the accounts to and from temporary server?

Thanks!

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello

Your web hosting provider is correct that it's recommended to install CentOS 6 on a clean server. Upgrading directly to CentOS 6 from a previous version can cause conflicts with the system packages. Transferring the accounts to a temporary server is a good idea as it makes it easier to simply move them back the original server when CentOS/cPanel are reinstalled.

Thank you.