Leave plugin churn and platform limits behind. We move sites to Umbraco with content mapped, SEO protected by full redirects and functionality rebuilt properly.
Somewhere along the way, your website stopped being a tool and became a set of constraints. The platform will not do what the business needs without another plugin, every plugin is another thing that breaks on update, and your team has learned to work around the CMS rather than with it. Perhaps an update took the site down at the worst moment; perhaps the final straw was quieter, a simple change that turned out to be impossible.
The old way of switching platforms deserves its reputation. Content copied across by hand over weeks. Search rankings vaporised because nobody mapped the URLs. Features that worked on the old site arriving broken on the new one, followed by a long tail of little repairs that were never in the quote.
A migration done properly is a different experience: content moved in a structured way, every URL redirect-mapped so Google barely notices, functionality rebuilt natively instead of dragged across, and the switch itself happening without downtime. That is the version we sell, scoped and priced before we start.
Every page, URL, form and feature is inventoried before anything moves. This becomes the migration checklist, and it is why nothing gets forgotten halfway across.
Your content gets a real structure in Umbraco, built around how your team actually publishes, rather than being pasted into free-text boxes that recreate the old mess on a new platform.
Every old URL is mapped to its new home with a permanent redirect. Years of accumulated search ranking survive the move because nothing points into a void.
Forms and functionality are rebuilt natively in Umbraco and tested against the audit checklist. The new site goes live in a controlled switch, with no outage and the old site held as a safety net.
Umbraco is an open source .NET content management system with no licence fee, used worldwide and maintained by a company with a public roadmap and published support timelines. For a business, the practical differences from plugin-based platforms are these: functionality is built into your site rather than bolted on, so there are far fewer moving parts to break; the editing experience is designed around your content rather than a theme's assumptions; and the platform scales from brochure site to business-critical application without changing horses again. We have built on it exclusively since 2011, across more than 200 sites and every version since v4, and we hold Umbraco Silver Partner status, one of fewer than 150 agencies worldwide. Our about Umbraco page gives the fuller picture, including where Umbraco is not the right answer, because it sometimes is not.
A migration is scoped from the audit, so the quote reflects your actual site rather than a hopeful average. Reference points: development from £80 an hour and £500 a day, and for scale, our fixed price Umbraco 13 to 17 upgrade runs £8,999 plus VAT over roughly 21 days. A modest brochure site migration sits under that; a heavily customised site sits over it. Either way you get one number, before we start, and the 50/50 payment shape we use for defined projects. Afterwards, most clients put the new site on our managed hosting from £99 a month, so the platform that was worth moving to stays patched, backed up and watched.
Two related answers from our FAQ may help your thinking: what moving from WordPress involves and what an Umbraco website costs. When you are ready, send us the address of your current site; the audit starts from exactly there.
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An Umbraco Silver Partner agency in Llandudno, North Wales and the Isle of Man, building and looking after Umbraco and .NET websites for businesses and agencies across the UK and beyond. Simon Antony is a brand of Simplepage Ltd.
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