What gets lost.
WHAT HAPPENS
Cron jobs do not travel with website files.
Unless you took a full cPanel backup from a cPanel source, they must be recreated.
THE SYMPTOM
Everything appears to work, and scheduled things quietly stop.
Scheduled posts do not publish. Backups do not run. Orders do not process.
Discovered days or weeks later.
WHAT TO DO BEFORE MIGRATING
Record every cron job: the command and the schedule.
Screenshot the list.
WHAT TO DO AFTER MIGRATING
Recreate each one Update any path that changed
That second point matters. Your home directory path differs between hosts.
A job copied verbatim with an old path does nothing.
FOR WORDPRESS
Set up the real cron job here, and confirm the HTTP method is disabled.
HOW TO VERIFY
Schedule a post and confirm it publishes.
Check any backup plugin reports a recent run.
WHAT TO ADD TO YOUR MIGRATION CHECKLIST
Cron jobs. It is among the most commonly forgotten items.
