Omega8.cc: No Removal Van

Most Drupal 7 sites keep the crossing to modern Drupal parked for some day, and some day has a habit of never arriving, because the crossing as we all learned it wants a second machine, a dump shipped across, credentials pasted into one more form and a rehearsal budget which runs out after the first try. On a BOA server the two ends sit on one account: the Drupal 7 site keeps serving while a fresh Drupal CMS site goes up beside it, one Ægir task lends the new site read-only eyes on the old database (enforced by the database server itself), and Drupal's own migration engine pulls content, files and users across in place. Rehearsals are throwaway site tasks, the wizard says what will cross before it starts, and the cutover is a move onto your own build and two renames, the old site kept intact. The front end is still a rebuild, your theme, custom code and views; only the logistics go away. Capabilities rather than an enforced workflow, and nothing here picks your exit for you.