Migration

Your app is getting traction. Then one day it starts to feel slow and fragile. Pages load late, new features feel risky, and your data gets harder to trust each week. That is often when teams ask, what is a DB migration, and do we need one? Sometimes the fix is small. Other times, the […]

Your platform got you to revenue. Now it might be the thing slowing you down. Most founders feel it before they can prove it. Pages get slower. Support tickets rise. Small feature requests take weeks. Then one big traffic spike hits and everything starts to wobble. If you are asking whether it is time for […]

If your website feels like it fights you every week, it probably is. Pages load slowly. Simple edits take too long. New features feel risky. This is usually the point where founders start looking for website migration services because “we’ll fix it later” turns into “we can’t grow like this.” A migration is not just […]

Welcome back to our series on preparing publisher websites for a safe, successful website migration. In part 5, we reviewed analytics and ad settings to help prevent revenue loss, reporting gaps, and extra stress. Now it is time for the final step, launch day. This is the moment when your new site becomes the live […]

Launching a new CMS is not the finish line. It is the point where hidden migration problems start to show up. If your team has already moved the first batch of content into the new system, now is the time to audit what made it over, what broke, and what still needs cleanup. This CMS […]

Preparing content for a CMS migration starts before any data moves. If you skip the prep work, you risk broken pages, missing fields, and a messy launch. In Part 2, we covered traffic performance. If you are still deciding whether a move makes sense, ask these 3 questions first. This is Part 3, focused on […]

A good migration can still fail if you skip the prep work. This pre-migration checklist helps you capture the right baseline data, reduce risk, and avoid ugly surprises after launch. If you are planning a platform change, redesign, or CMS move, the work you do before migration will shape what happens after it. This article […]

If you think you need a new CMS, pause before you migrate. A platform change can fix real problems, but it can also create expensive new ones if you rush it. Broken URLs, missing media, lost rankings, and frustrated editors usually start with bad planning, not bad luck. This article is part 1 of Disaster-Proofing […]

A large university website cannot be moved with guesswork. This website migration case study shows how Refact helped the University of Southern California move a complex web ecosystem into a new digital home without losing critical content, structure, or search visibility. Working alongside USC and Digital Pulp, we supported the first phases of the move, […]