Upgrading from Drupal 6
Why and how to upgrade from Drupal 6 to Drupal 8, including migration strategies and SpinSpire's Drupal Migration Accelerator.
When Drupal 6 was released in 2008, it was major accomplishment of Drupal’s Open Source community. But with the release of Drupal 8 in late 2015, Drupal 6 became unsupported. Most contrib module developers have also turned their attention away from maintaining D6 version of their modules.
Why upgrade from Drupal 6?
The sites are vulnerable to attacks and the code is not kept up-to-date or supported. But our customers have years of content, SEO, analytics, user-base and other enterprise assets locked into their D6 sites.
Why Drupal 8?
- Mobile-first approach with responsive design built-in
- All content accessible via REST API (headless Drupal)
- Enhanced caching for improved performance
- Configuration data stored as files for easy deployment
- 200 new features available in 100 languages
How to migrate?
We accomplish this with our robust and efficient Drupal Migration Accelerator built over the years migrating dozens of sites. It reduces costs by speeding up the migration process, and making it more reliable.
Founded in 2010, SpinSpire is a team of Drupal experts with proven record of delivering high performance Drupal sites. Drop us a line if you have any questions.