What is Cloud Migration?

Cloud migration refers to the process of moving a web application from one platform, hosting environment, or content management system (CMS) to another. The migration may involve moving the entire web app or parts of it, including web pages, content, and data, from one server or domain to another. The reasons for cloud migration may vary, including upgrading to a newer technology, improving web app performance and security, changing hosting providers, or redesigning the web application.

The process of cloud migration typically involves several steps, including planning, preparing, and executing the migration. The planning phase involves assessing the current web application and determining the scope, timeline, and resources required for the migration. The preparation phase involves creating a backup of the existing web app, setting up the new hosting environment, and configuring the new platform or CMS. The execution phase involves transferring the website data, content, and applications to the new environment and testing the web app functionality.

Cloud migration can be a complex process that requires careful planning, execution, and testing to ensure that the web app is migrated successfully without any disruption to the user experience. It is recommended to seek the assistance of a professional web developer or migration specialist to ensure a smooth and successful migration.

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Upgrade Your Web App Today

We know that as a chief technical officer, understandably, upgrading the frameworks and libraries which were used to develop your web application can oftentimes be a difficult task — nevermind upgrading or replacing an entire tech stack. Nevertheless, staying on top of your product’s migration is indispensable for a number of reasons:

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Redevelopment

Redevelopment will often be more expensive than an upgrade

 
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Outdated solutions

Outdated solutions represent a significant cybersecurity risk for organisations and clients

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Software Performance

Suboptimal software performance can have a negative impact on your company's operations

Cloud Migration: How much does it cost?

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Because failing to adequately carry out a cloud migration could mean the total loss of your traffic and rankings — which is likely to translate into an equally hefty loss of business — it is important to fully grasp what is needed. So in layman’s terms, what is cloud migration in practice? Essentially, this is a process by which software developers can renovate your web application’s performance, structure, platform, content, design and ultimately user experience. Depending on your company’s individual circumstances, the following cloud migration services are widely available:

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Cloud Infrastructure Migration
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Platform Migration Service
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Domain Migration
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Web App Transfer Service
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Hosting Migration
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Complex Migration

The Challenges of Cloud Migration

Many technical leaders will recognise the importance of migration support as well as the need for upgrading their software ecosystems in a timely manner. They may even occasionally ask themselves: “how do I plan a web app migration?”, “how do I prepare a cloud infrastructure for migration?” or how to transfer a cloud infrastructure properly. Nevertheless, after finding out the answers to these questions or even coming up with a feasible game plan — whether dealing with a SaaS migration or any other cloud migration process — they will often hesitate, as these upgrades will frequently be:

  • exceedingly disruptive to end users
  • expensive and time consuming
  • considerably challenging, requiring participation of various types of migration experts

SPG: Cloud Migration Experts

With this in mind, Software Planet Group have over two decades of experience performing all types of cloud migration and cloud infrastructure upgrades for our business customers. We provide:

Extensive technical expertise

in various fields (from bespoke in-house solutions to public SaaS and IaaS platforms)

Access to a large variety of different specialists

from architects and developers to network administration specialists, DevOps and Quality Assurance .

Experts in numerous technologies

which enables us to handle even the most technically diverse applications

The SPG Approach to Cloud Migration

When approached by a client with a request for large-scale changes, no matter the system architecture or selected cloud migration tool, Software Planet Group will always follow these 4 essential web app migration steps:

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Analyse the solution’s existing ecosystem, including its infrastructure, architecture and codebase, to identify the most critical elements to upgrade.

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Identify the testing strategy, to ensure a successful cloud migration and that the solution won’t be damaged in the process. This secure cloud migration method includes a plan for extending the test coverage.

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Establish if the architectural elements may be migrated to the latest version directly, in several “jumps” (migrating to the newest possible version, until the latest one is finally reached), or if some of the elements need replacing.

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Evaluate the estimation of efforts and if migrating the solution would make economic sense.

Technologies

SPG can both upgrade and replace your existing tech stack. We use a number of platforms and frameworks that not only lead to robust web network solutions, but guarantee cloud portability as well as full software interoperability.

Cloud Providers:

Amazon AWS

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Hetzner Cloud

Google Cloud Platform

DigitalOcean

Digital Ocean

Azure

Platforms:

Front-end Frameworks:

Configuration Management:

Ansible

Chef

Salt

Terraform

Puppet

Virtualisation:

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Vagrant

VMWare

Docker

KVM

Kubernetes

Hyper-V

Case Studies

SPG are proud of the work we do. From SMEs to large corporations looking for web developers in the UK, we are the trusted partners of hundreds of businesses — both UK-wide and internationally — who put their confidence in our experienced programming specialists. If you are interested in some of our past projects, have a look at our featured case studies!

Clients from SMEs to Fortune 500 Companies

When it comes to serving customers, there is never really a silver bullet. Our success is the direct result of working hard to find the right approach for every one of our specific partners.

Cloud Migration Roadmap

Our customer roadmap is as straightforward as it gets:

Get in touch

Arrange a phone call or video chat

Provide requirements

Estimate project

Start development

Are You Ready to Start Your Project?

Get In Touch With SPG Right Now!

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