Platform Migration · Cloud · WordPress · Database · SQL Server · Legacy Modernization
Cloud migration, WordPress migration, database migration — done right, without losing uptime, data, or rankings.
Stuck on Drupal 7, Webflow, WordPress, or AEM? We've spent 21 years building on these platforms — and we know exactly when it's time to leave. We migrate you to a modern, faster, cheaper stack without losing SEO equity, content, or data integrity. Hosting drops 90% (Acquia $4-6K → Railway $75/mo). Migration pays for itself in year one. Zero content loss, zero ranking regression — we've migrated 10,000+-page sites without traffic loss.
What makes this different
SEO Equity Preserved
Every redirect mapped. Every canonical preserved. Every ranking protected. We've migrated sites with 10,000+ pages without losing organic traffic.
90% Hosting Reduction
Acquia costs $4,000-6,000/month. WP Engine $500-2,000. We move you to modern hosting at $20-75/month for the same performance — or better.
No Export Fees, No Data Hostage, Your Infrastructure
Some platforms charge export fees. Some lock you into their proprietary CMS schema. Some require their staff to run the migration. We migrate your content into open-source CMS (Strapi, headless Drupal, custom) on infrastructure you own. If you ever want to leave us, it's a Docker image to a different provider — not a contract renegotiation.
Deliverables
- Platform audit and migration planning
- Content and data migration with full SEO preservation
- Custom CMS implementation (headless architecture)
- Frontend rebuild on modern frameworks
- Redirect mapping and canonical URL management
- Performance optimization (Core Web Vitals)
- AEO baseline comparison (before and after)
- Managed hosting setup and transition
Investment
Webflow → Custom
20-100 pages + CMS + integrations
$25,000 - $100,000
Drupal → Modern
Full migration off Drupal to modern stack
$30,000 - $150,000
WordPress → Headless
CMS migration + frontend rebuild
$20,000 - $75,000
Any Platform → Modern
Squarespace, Wix, AEM, custom
$10,000 - $75,000
The migration pays for itself in hosting savings alone within 12-18 months.
Cloud migration
Your Azure bill scales faster than your engineering team. Your AWS reserved instances are locked into workloads you don't run anymore. Your cloud spend doubled in two years while your traffic barely grew. We move workloads between clouds (Azure → AWS, AWS → GCP, any → Hetzner / Fly.io / Railway), right-size instances, refactor services that depended on proprietary managed features, and rewire the stack for 50-90% hosting cost reductions. Zero downtime, zero data loss. We've done cloud migrations for bootstrapped SaaS (90% hosting cost reduction off Azure + SQL Server) and enterprise portfolios alike. Azure migration, AWS migration, GCP migration, or between-cloud consolidation — we scope to your bill and your compliance requirements.
Database migration
SQL Server license bills that grow every renewal. Oracle footprints you inherited from a 2012 acquisition. MongoDB deployments that outgrew their original use case. We migrate SQL Server → PostgreSQL, Oracle → PostgreSQL, MySQL → PostgreSQL, legacy NoSQL → modern managed SQL, and between vendors when the economics shift. Schema translation, data-type mapping, stored-procedure rewrites, application integration testing, and zero-downtime cutover patterns (blue-green, dual-write, CDC replication). Most enterprises cut database licensing 60-90% by moving off proprietary engines — and often improve performance along the way because the destination is built for modern workloads.
Drupal migration
21 years of Drupal experience. We've built for Sonos, Henry Schein, Arizona State University, Helmer Scientific. We know Drupal 7's content entity model, Drupal 8-11's Symfony-based architecture, the D7→D9/10 upgrade gotchas, and the performance tradeoffs between monolithic Drupal and headless decoupled Drupal. We migrate Drupal sites to modern headless architectures (Next.js + Strapi, headless Drupal, custom) while preserving every URL, every redirect, every piece of content, and every ranking. Hosting drops from $4-6K/month on Acquia to $75/month on Railway. Content team experience improves. Developer velocity 3-5× faster.
WordPress migration services
WordPress → Next.js headless. WordPress → Strapi. WordPress → custom CMS. Or keep WordPress as the content backend and layer a modern frontend on top for speed and flexibility. We handle WooCommerce migrations, multisite consolidations, Gutenberg block preservation, custom post type migration, and ACF field mapping. Redirect maps cover every URL. Content migration preserves media, taxonomies, authors, dates. SEO equity protected. Most WordPress migrations complete in 3-6 weeks depending on scale and plugin complexity.
Legacy system modernization
Custom PHP from 2012. Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) licenses that cost more each renewal. Enterprise CMS platforms nobody on your team knows how to modify anymore. We modernize legacy systems by separating the content model from the rendering layer, extracting business logic into documented APIs, and standing up a modern frontend that your team can actually maintain. No rip-and-replace forcing a two-year freeze; we modernize incrementally so you keep shipping while the stack evolves underneath you.
Frequently asked questions
Will I lose my Google rankings during a migration?
No. We map every URL redirect, preserve canonical structures, and verify SEO parity post-migration. We’ve migrated sites with thousands of pages without losing organic traffic.
How long does a platform migration take?
Typically 4-8 weeks for a standard marketing site, 8-16 weeks for complex applications or e-commerce. The actual migration cutover happens in a day — we build the new site in parallel.
What about our content — do we lose anything?
Every piece of content migrates. We extract, transform, and load your content into the new CMS with full fidelity. Media assets, metadata, taxonomy — everything transfers.
Why not just upgrade Drupal instead of migrating?
After 21 years of Drupal development, we know when upgrading makes sense and when it doesn’t. If you’re on Drupal 7-9, the upgrade path is often as expensive as migrating to something modern — but you end up with the same platform limitations.
What does hosting cost after migration?
Most clients go from $500-6,000/month to $20-75/month on Railway. Same performance, better uptime, HIPAA compliant if needed.
Can you do a Drupal-to-WordPress migration?
Yes. We handle Drupal → WordPress migrations when that's the right move (smaller team, simpler content model, lower ongoing cost). We also handle WordPress → Drupal, both → headless, and both → custom. The platform choice depends on your content complexity, team skills, and future roadmap — we help you pick, we don't force a direction.
What's the actual migration timeline, end to end?
Typical end-to-end timeline: 4-8 weeks for a standard marketing site (content, redirects, design refresh, launch). 8-16 weeks for applications or e-commerce with custom data models and integrations. 12-20 weeks for enterprise platforms with EHR/ERP integrations or multi-brand consolidation. The actual cutover happens in a single day — we build the new site in parallel and switch DNS when everything is verified.
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