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Switching without starting over

Switching Service

Most things don't need to go

Your website is with a provider that you can no longer work with, or it is technically outdated. This rarely means everything needs to be discarded. Most of the time, the problem lies in the maintenance surrounding it, not in what is there.

Rebuilding is the obvious route, and usually the most expensive. With the Migration Service, your content and structure remain the starting point. As an organisation, you don’t need to make all choices again. We will take you to an up-to-date version of Umbraco on Umbraco Cloud and then develop further in small steps.

Every migration starts with the Platform Scan. After five working days, you will know what is there, what the migration will cost, and what to expect.

€750 excl. VAT · five working days · the report is yours

Start with the Platform scan

This is the moment to switch

  • Your website is running on a version that is no longer supported, or will be soon

  • You are at a standstill with your current provider, but you don't want to throw everything away

  • No one really knows how the site is structured

  • There is a quote for a rebuild, and you're wondering if that's necessary

When you probably won’t need to make this transition

  • Your current provider delivers. If you only want a newer version, then an upgrade with that provider is usually quicker and cheaper than switching.

  • The issue lies mainly within your organisation. If the problem is how your team works with the website, then a different provider or platform won't solve that.

  • The scan rejects it. If we find something that makes switching unwise, we'll say so. Even if that costs us the assignment.

If you're unsure which of these applies to you, first present it to one of the owners in half an hour.

Schedule a consultation.

Six steps, from first glance to management

  • 1

    Inspection

    Part of the Platform Scan. We map out what is in place: the platform and the version, customisation, integrations, hosting, security, licences, and how transferable the whole thing is.

  • 2

    Proposal

    Part of the Platform scan. You will receive the findings, the risks, and a proposal at a fixed price and fixed scope. The report is yours, even if you do not proceed further.

  • 3

    Transfer

    We organise access, repository, documentation, environments, DNS and licences. We will only proceed once none of what you need is still solely with the previous party.

  • 4

    Transfer

    To an up-to-date version of Umbraco on Umbraco Cloud, with a set up deployment pipeline. Content and media will be included, we will retest the connections. How the transfer will proceed exactly depends on where you are coming from.

  • 5

    Test and acceptance

    Functional testing, performance, security and accessibility. You accept in the staging environment before anything goes live.

  • 6

    Going live and aftercare

    The new environment runs alongside the existing one, which will continue to operate until the last moment. Going live involves a DNS change that takes a few minutes. After that, there will be two weeks of heightened alertness with active monitoring, after which management will transfer to the service agreement.

The scan has a fixed price, and the switch afterwards as well

The Platform scan costs €750 excluding VAT and lasts five working days. It is the only part that we carry out without knowing what we will encounter.

Afterwards, you will receive a fixed-price proposal with a fixed scope, valid for 60 days. No post-calculation. Additional work only if you request it, and only after agreement.

The cost of the transition depends on what we find. These are the factors that matter most, and they are precisely the factors that the scan examines:

  • Where you are coming from, and how far that is from a current version of Umbraco

  • How much custom work there is

  • The number of integrations with other systems, and how well those are documented

  • The content volume: pages, media, and languages

  • Whether the site needs to comply with WCAG 2.2 AA, and how far it currently deviates from that

Start with the Platform scan

After the launch, Umbraco Cloud and we will manage it together.

Umbraco Cloud provides hosting, infrastructure and backups, platform updates and security patches, certificates, and a development, staging, and production environment. We take care of the work on top of that.

We bill hosting at the list price of Umbraco Cloud, without markup. Management falls under one of our service packages: Support, Retainer, or Enterprise. Which package is suitable can be determined from the scan. What each package includes and costs is outlined side by side in one product sheet that you can request.

  • Application management.

    Management and monitoring of the application that has been built for you.

  • Upgrades.

    Major version upgrades of Umbraco and maintenance of packages.

  • Incidents.

    If something goes wrong, we will handle it according to the agreements in your service package.

  • Further development.

    Continuing to build in small steps, within a fixed monthly budget.

Each previous transition made the next one more predictable

Each acquisition has generated checks that we standardly perform since then. Therefore, we can provide a fixed price after five working days.

  • Umbraco Platinum Partner, with direct lines to Umbraco HQ

  • Managing over 50 Umbraco Cloud environments

  • Consciously standardised on Umbraco Cloud instead of a proprietary hosting line. This makes management predictable and cheaper.

Webwonders Umbraco MVP

What customers most often ask about switching

First look at what is there, then decide

You don’t need to decide anything yet. After five working days, you’ll have a report that will inform you whether switching is worthwhile and what it will cost. Even if the advice is not to proceed.

Start with the Platform scan