Out of interest, what are you moving to?

Update: After a chat with the server host, we're now moving to a *very* slightly newer server for the same price but we're also getting their fancy backup system thrown in. So there *may* be some downtime coming up but hopefully very minimal as they will be doing a migration.

I'm still on CentOS 7.x (7.9.2009 in /etc/redhat-release) too on my web/mail server, I've probably got another year left on that server contract (I hate moving servers... a lot of busy work and always more money) but CentOS 7 is going to be EOL in June. I don't like spending time working on servers that don't do a lot (most important thing is the mail server now) so I use CPanel nowadays. At the time, CentOS 7.x was still the recommended base.

Don't know what I'm going to do next. Probably just a bare OS install, I don't actually host any other sites anymore. The hosting company will put on any OS I want (base OS with nothing but SSH enabled).

$ uname -r
3.10.0-1160.99.1.el7.x86_64 <--- LOL Redhat kernel versions

Cpanel here too, it's all I know heh but we're moving over to Alma on the new server, seemed like the sanest choice.

I might do the same if I stay with Cpanel. It sounds better than that CloudLinux they try to push.

Liam, do you really need Cpanel? It sounds like an unnecessary additional expense. FWIW, if you plan to stay in the RHEL family of distributions, I might recommend Rocky Linux and, if necessary, for managing the system you could just use Redhats Cockpit software (it's available in the base distro, including on derivatives like Rocky). That'll give you a web interface to manage things with.

Just my 2c.

I don't believe I *need* cpanel no, but it's a lot less hassle than having to relearn everything and it just works and has worked for me the entire time GOL has been up so I just prefer to keep using it.

New server is online, and testing on it will begin soon.

Tomorrow, around 3PM UTC, our big server move will start. So there will be some downtime.

Good luck with the move, Liam. Hope it all goes smoothly for you.