Infrastructure · Infrastructure Migration

Move legacy workloads onto a modern foundation without losing the system.

Neoground assesses, plans, and executes migrations for websites, web applications, databases, servers, and platforms — including data transfer, cutover, rollback, stack modernization, and the operating model after the move.

Fixed readiness review Data and service migration Rollback and continuity Modernization strategy included

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A migration is more than copying files

The work must preserve data, behavior, integrations, DNS, certificates, scheduled jobs, external dependencies, and the operational knowledge required to run the system after cutover.

Discover Recover the system Services · data · dependencies Prepare Build the target Stack · access · backups Transfer Move and validate Data · files · integrations Cut over Switch with recovery DNS · verify · rollback

Source Legacy or constrained

Target Modern stack

Continuity Planned

Migration entry points

Start with enough clarity to price the move responsibly.

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A fixed readiness review works well when the system, risks, and modernization opportunity are still unclear. Straightforward migrations can move directly into a defined implementation.

Assessment and plan Best first step

Migration Readiness Review

A focused review of one workload to establish source state, target approach, risks, sequence, and realistic migration scope.

Fixed price £995 plus applicable VAT

Source environment and dependency review
Data, service, DNS, and integration map
Target-stack recommendation
Cutover and rollback outline
Written effort and risk assessment

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Defined website or application

Managed Migration

For a sufficiently understood workload that can be moved onto a modern Neoground-managed environment.

Implementation from £2,950 plus applicable VAT

Target environment preparation
Files, application, and data transfer
Configuration and dependency migration
Testing, cutover, and rollback path
Initial managed-operation handover

Discuss a managed migration

Complex or business-critical transition

Platform Migration

For several services, large data sets, legacy constraints, parallel operation, or a wider modernization program.

Pricing Custom based on systems and continuity

Multi-service migration architecture
Progressive or parallel transition
Data and integration sequencing
Modernization and rebuild work
Custom continuity and operating model

Scope the platform migration

Assessment credit

Where the readiness review leads directly into a suitable migration project, part of the assessment fee may be credited against implementation at Neoground’s discretion.

Migration engineering

Preserve service behavior while replacing the foundation.

The migration model connects source discovery, target architecture, data transfer, validation, cutover, recovery, and future operation.

Source reconstruction

Recover services, versions, data, jobs, DNS, certificates, integrations, access, traffic, and hidden dependencies.

Discover

Target foundation

Prepare supported Linux, modern runtime, storage, database, cache, network, monitoring, backups, and access.

Prepare

Transfer and validation

Move files, databases, service state, configuration, and integrations while validating real behavior.

Transfer

Cutover and operation

Coordinate DNS or routing, verify the production workload, retain rollback, and establish managed continuity.

Operate

Migration control Neoground transition ownership

Automation supports repeatable transfer and validation. AI-assisted analysis can help compare configurations and logs. Cutover, data decisions, and rollback remain human-controlled.

A successful migration leaves the system easier to understand and operate than it was before the move.

Neoground uses the transition to remove unsupported components, document hidden dependencies, establish monitoring and backups, and propose the modernization work that creates long-term value.

Where a clean move is not possible, the plan can include staged replacement, compatibility layers, temporary coexistence, or a broader application rebuild.

Source behavior and dependencies recovered before cutover
Target built and observed before production traffic moves
Data integrity and validation treated explicitly
Rollback or containment available at the critical transition
Future managed operation designed into the target

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Migration coverage

Handle the technical details that usually surface too late.

The exact checklist follows the workload and continuity requirements.

Discovery

Source environment mapping

Versions, services, data, DNS, certificates, jobs, users, traffic, providers, and hidden dependencies recovered.

Target

Modern environment design

Supported Linux and application stack prepared around performance, security, backup, monitoring, and future operation.

Data

Transfer and integrity

Databases, files, storage, generated state, retention, synchronization, and final delta transfer planned.

Application

Compatibility and modernization

Runtime, framework, packages, configuration, integrations, and application behavior adjusted where the new environment requires it.

Cutover

Routing and validation

DNS, certificates, traffic, external connections, production checks, communication, and rollback coordinated.

Continuity

Managed handover

Monitoring, backups, documentation, access, maintenance, and the next modernization priorities established after migration.

Rescue and modernization experience

Use the move to resolve the conditions that made the old environment fragile.

Neoground has repeatedly worked with old websites, PHP applications, databases, and servers that still carried business value but had lost a safe maintenance path.

The migration can remain a focused infrastructure move or become the first stage of a broader modernization strategy.

Unsupported runtimes, undocumented jobs, brittle deployment, oversized databases, missing backups, and provider-specific assumptions are addressed in the sequence rather than copied blindly.

Recover

Reconstruct enough of the existing system to distinguish real dependencies from historical residue.

Stabilize

Create backups, access, monitoring, and a controlled source state before the move.

Modernize

Update runtime, service layout, configuration, and operational tooling where the transition creates a safe opportunity.

Prepare for years ahead

Leave supported software, documentation, clear ownership, and a foundation that can scale or evolve.

Legacy website and application infrastructure moving through discovery, data transfer, validation, cutover, and modern managed operation — Migration system **Discover · prepare · transfer · cut over**

Migration sequence

Make the risky moment the most prepared part of the project.

Discovery and rehearsal reduce the number of unknowns left for the final cutover.

01

Discover

Map the source and risk

Inspect services, data, dependencies, traffic, DNS, access, backups, compatibility, and the business timing.
02

Prepare

Build and test the target

Provision the new stack, migrate a copy, update configuration, establish monitoring and backups, and test real workflows.
03

Rehearse

Validate transfer and cutover

Measure migration time, final data synchronization, DNS or routing steps, external dependencies, checks, and rollback.
04

Cut over

Move, observe, and stabilize

Complete the final transfer, switch production, verify the workload, monitor closely, and retain the recovery path.

Migration automation Repeatable transfer reduces mistakes. Human control protects the cutover.

Backups, synchronization, configuration, checks, and validation can be automated where dependable. Data acceptance, traffic switch, production verification, and rollback remain controlled.

Repeatable environment and transfer steps
Automated file, data, and configuration checks
Log and behavior comparison
Human-controlled cutover and rollback

Migration boundary

Separate the move from optional modernization without losing the connection.

The migration proposal states what must change for compatibility and what improvements remain elective.

Core responsibility

Typical managed-migration scope

Source discovery and migration plan
Target infrastructure preparation
Application, file, and database transfer
Required configuration and compatibility work
Testing, cutover, and rollback preparation
DNS, certificate, and routing coordination
Monitoring, backups, and handover

Available extensions

Use the transition for deeper improvement

Application modernization or rebuild
Database cleanup and restructuring
Deployment and CI improvements
Performance optimization
High availability and redundancy
Managed Hosting or Managed Infrastructure
Platform Operations after migration

FAQ

Infrastructure migration questions.

The readiness review is the safest route when the workload or risk is not yet understood.

Can you migrate very old PHP applications or websites?

Often, yes. The source runtime, framework, extensions, database, integrations, and operating assumptions must be assessed first.

Some systems require compatibility work, staged modernization, or partial rebuild rather than a direct copy.

Can the migration happen with little downtime?

Many workloads can use rehearsed transfer, final synchronization, low-TTL DNS, proxy routing, or parallel operation to reduce interruption.

The achievable window depends on data, write activity, architecture, and external dependencies.

Do you migrate data as well as the application?

Yes. Databases, files, generated state, retention, integrity, synchronization, and final acceptance are included where they belong to the agreed scope.

Can Neoground operate the system after migration?

Yes. The target can move into Managed Hosting, Managed WordPress Hosting, Managed Infrastructure, Linux Server Management, or Platform Operations.

Infrastructure Migration

Move the workload once — and improve the foundation for years.

Share the current provider, stack, workload, data, deadline, and reason for moving. Neoground will recommend the readiness review or the appropriate migration scope.

Start a migration inquiry Write to Neoground The fixed Migration Readiness Review is £995 plus applicable VAT.