I'm preparing to migrate to a new server my datacenter just provisioned. My current cPanel server is running MariaDB 10.3, but as threads such as this one talk about, cPanel now seems to default to MySQL 8 during installation, which makes installing MariaDB impossible. I'm concerned on a couple of levels -- one, as I understood it, MariaDB seemed to be superior these days, but, two and more practically, I'm not sure what to expect pulling accounts from a server with MariaDB to one with MySQL 8 given the incompatibilities.
Is the only choice to correct this to ask the datacenter to completely reprovision the server? Or is there something less drastic than reinstalling absolutely everything?
Is the only choice to correct this to ask the datacenter to completely reprovision the server? Or is there something less drastic than reinstalling absolutely everything?