Use Case
Modernize your legacy site without losing what works.
Legacy sites are expensive to maintain, slow to load, and increasingly vulnerable to security threats. Esteemed combines AI-assisted migration tools with experienced developers to move you to a modern stack while preserving your content, SEO, and business logic.
AI analyzes your site and generates a modern rebuild- Content, URLs, and SEO rankings transfer intact
- Migration specialists with hundreds of projects completed
The real cost of running a legacy site
Legacy sites do not just look outdated. They actively cost your business money. Drupal 7 reached end of life. WordPress sites running old PHP versions are security liabilities. Custom PHP applications built a decade ago have no one left who understands the codebase.
The maintenance burden compounds every year. Patches take longer because dependencies conflict. Performance degrades because the architecture was never designed for modern traffic patterns. New features are impossible because the original framework does not support them.
But migration is daunting. The risk of losing SEO rankings, breaking integrations, and disrupting business operations keeps teams on legacy platforms far longer than they should stay. Esteemed eliminates that risk with AI-assisted migration that preserves your content and rankings, combined with developers who have done hundreds of migrations and know exactly where the edge cases hide.
A complete migration path
AI handles the heavy lifting. Expert developers handle the edge cases. Your content and rankings transfer intact.
AI-Assisted Migration
Esteemed Create analyzes your existing site structure, content hierarchy, and design patterns, then generates a modern rebuild that preserves what works and upgrades everything else. Content, images, and metadata transfer automatically.
Modern Performance
Move from legacy CMSs and monolithic architectures to modern frameworks with built-in performance optimization. Lazy loading, image compression, edge caching, and code splitting deliver sub-second load times out of the box.
Security Upgrades
Legacy platforms accumulate years of unpatched vulnerabilities, outdated dependencies, and deprecated APIs. Esteemed Cloud provides managed security, automatic patching, SSL by default, and WAF protection without your team managing servers.
Content & Data Migration
We handle the complex parts that break most migrations: database transformations, URL redirect mapping, SEO preservation, media library migration, and integration rewiring. Your content and search rankings transfer intact.
Migration Specialists
Colleagues developers specialize in Drupal, WordPress, Joomla, and custom PHP migrations. They have executed hundreds of migrations across every major platform and know where the edge cases hide. No learning curve, no surprises.
Post-Migration Support
Esteemed Support provides monitoring, performance tuning, bug fixes, and training after your migration goes live. We stay engaged through the critical first 90 days and offer ongoing support plans for long-term peace of mind.
From legacy to modern in four phases
Every migration follows a proven process with clear milestones, rollback procedures, and stakeholder checkpoints.
Assess your current site
We audit your existing platform for content inventory, technical debt, security vulnerabilities, performance bottlenecks, and integration dependencies. You get a clear picture of what needs to migrate and what to leave behind.
Plan the migration path
Together we define the target architecture, content mapping, URL redirect strategy, and timeline. Every migration gets a written plan with milestones and rollback procedures.
Rebuild with Create + experts
AI generates the modern site structure while Colleagues developers handle custom logic, integrations, and edge cases. You review and approve at every stage.
Deploy and monitor
We deploy to Esteemed Cloud, verify redirects, validate SEO, and monitor performance. Post-launch support keeps everything running smoothly through the transition.
Common migration paths
We have migrated hundreds of sites across every major platform. Whatever your starting point, we have a proven path forward and developers who have walked it before.
- Drupal 7/8/9 to modern Drupal 10+, Next.js, or headless architecture
- Legacy WordPress to current WordPress or static site generation
- Custom PHP and .NET to modern JavaScript frameworks
- On-premise hosting to Esteemed Cloud managed infrastructure
- Monolithic sites to decoupled frontend/backend architectures
- Single-site to multi-site or multi-brand setups
Frequently asked questions
We have migrated sites from Drupal (all versions), WordPress, Joomla, Sitecore, Adobe Experience Manager, Squarespace, Wix, custom PHP, .NET, and proprietary CMSs. If it is on the web, we can migrate it.
Simple sites (under 100 pages) typically migrate in 2-4 weeks. Complex sites with custom integrations, large content libraries, or multiple languages take 6-12 weeks. We provide a detailed timeline during the assessment phase.
No. SEO preservation is a core part of every migration. We map every URL, create 301 redirects, transfer metadata, and validate structured data. Most clients see improved rankings within 90 days because the new site loads faster and has cleaner markup.
All content, media, user data, and metadata transfer to the new platform. We handle database transformations, image optimization, and content restructuring. You review and approve the migration before the old site is decommissioned.
Migration costs depend on site size, complexity, and the number of custom integrations. Simple migrations start around $5,000. Complex enterprise migrations are scoped individually. We provide a fixed-price quote after the assessment phase.
Yes. We can recreate your existing design on a modern framework, or we can use the migration as an opportunity for a full redesign. Many clients choose to modernize the design alongside the technology stack.
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- 500+ sites migrated across every major platform
- AI-assisted migration preserves content and rankings
- Expert developers from the Colleagues network
- Post-migration support and monitoring included