Compliant and secure Drupal 8 to Drupal 9 upgrade services

Drupal 8 has reached its end-of-life as of November 2021, and as such it’s important to ensure your website has been upgraded from Drupal 8 to Drupal 9. This is a process that simply cannot be ignored.

Doghouse Agency’s experienced team of Drupal developers have developed a clear process to ensure Drupal upgrades are managed in a secure, timely and compliant manner. 

Drupal 9 is backwards compatible with Drupal 8, supporting an upgrade process that is relatively straightforward compared to previous Drupal version updates. Whilst still requiring careful planning, complex websites with large module usage can be effectively migrated with limited downtime.

Why is this important?

• Drupal 8 has reached its end-of-life as of November 2021
• The Drupal 8 platform is no longer supported with security fixes 
• Your website will be exposed to potential security threats
• Drupal 9 will use at a minimum PHP Version 7.4 to significantly boost performance and improve code readability

How complex is this upgrade?

Since you are undertaking this upgrade late in the Drupal 8 deprecation timeline, we can maximise the benefits of the work that has already been completed by the module maintainers or the wider community. If a module has not yet been patched, it is unlikely it will happen in the coming months, and therefore will need to be completed during the upgrade process.

Factors that will influence the effort:

• The number and complexity of contrib modules which have not been made compatible with or are no longer supported in Drupal 9
• The number and complexity of custom modules which need to be made compatible with Drupal 9
• The complexity of the theme layer, which could possibly be referencing deprecated functions

Pricing

Costs are relative to the effort involved and are estimated based on further investigation.

For more information please email direct to migrations@doghouse.agency or call: 1300 321 789 International: +61 8 9385 2333