How much to do a managed upgrade from centos7 to almalinux?

borgqueenx

For me, a linux VPS is a means to a end, i run some stuff like game websites and other public things like discord bots.
I have not much knowledge about the background workings of linux. I tried to do a elevate script to upgrade from centos7 to almalinux, but it failed.

So what i'm wondering is, how much it would cost to do a upgrade from centos7 to almalinux 9? I would only deal with someone with a reputation here obviously, because they would have full access to my VPS.

Things to be kept alive are scripts running in root(that run together with systemd lot of times), the home directory (websites and teamspeak) and of course dependancy's that are needed to make the sites and scripts work. a reset of the firewall on the new system is welcome, as it seems to be buggy for me right now. (And UFW can weirdly only work for me by allowing ALL ports, then manually blocking ports, instead of opening ports and having default all ports closed)

Some advice, links or offers are welcomed

Thanks for reading and for advice!

plumberg

https://almalinux.org/elevate/

I have used this and it worked for my setup. If you have a test system with your setup... test it.

I am not a professional but can help if you feel stuck somewhere

Good luck!

borgqueenx

@plumberg said:
https://almalinux.org/elevate/

I have used this and it worked for my setup. If you have a test system with your setup... test it.

I am not a professional but can help if you feel stuck somewhere

Good luck!

yeah already tried that (twice actually) as i've written in the top post. Some thing(s) probably prevent the upgrade from working.

plumberg

@borgqueenx said:

@plumberg said:
https://almalinux.org/elevate/

I have used this and it worked for my setup. If you have a test system with your setup... test it.

I am not a professional but can help if you feel stuck somewhere

Good luck!

yeah already tried that (twice actually) as i've written in the top post. Some thing(s) probably prevent the upgrade from working.

I guess I am going blind 🙃
Good luck. For me elevate worked on over 30+ centos 7 boxes

Jorbox

@plumberg said:
https://almalinux.org/elevate/

I have used this and it worked for my setup. If you have a test system with your setup... test it.

I am not a professional but can help if you feel stuck somewhere

Good luck!

does it work with cloudlinux too ?

plumberg

@Jorbox said:

@plumberg said:
https://almalinux.org/elevate/

I have used this and it worked for my setup. If you have a test system with your setup... test it.

I am not a professional but can help if you feel stuck somewhere

Good luck!

does it work with cloudlinux too ?

Never tried but I am guessing it could work

EthernetServers

@Jorbox said:

@plumberg said:
https://almalinux.org/elevate/

I have used this and it worked for my setup. If you have a test system with your setup... test it.

I am not a professional but can help if you feel stuck somewhere

Good luck!

does it work with cloudlinux too ?

Per https://cloudlinux.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4893493575836-How-to-upgrade-from-CloudLinux-7-to-8-How-can-I-use-the-CloudLinux-ELevate-project- it's in Beta for CloudLinux... so make of the stability of the product as you will...

AllHost_Rep

CloudLinux ELevate is currently awful, absolutely avoid it and just do a full migration.

aj_potc

@borgqueenx said:

@plumberg said:
https://almalinux.org/elevate/

I have used this and it worked for my setup. If you have a test system with your setup... test it.

I am not a professional but can help if you feel stuck somewhere

Good luck!

yeah already tried that (twice actually) as i've written in the top post. Some thing(s) probably prevent the upgrade from working.

It does tell you in its log file exactly what prevents the upgrade, so if you're willing to do a bit of Googling, you could probably resolve them yourself. The ELevate wiki lists the most common issues and how to solve them, and they also have a chat available.

The ELevate script is really quite good, and it may be worth the effort to do yourself versus hiring this out. I understand that not everyone agrees, but I've always found that any Linux experience gained can be useful in the future.

JasonM

@plumberg said: https://almalinux.org/elevate/

+1 for this. it worked for me, CentOS 7 to Almalinux 8