Umbraco Upgrade & Migration Services
Modernize and future-proof your Umbraco website.
Keeping your Umbraco website up to date is critical for maintaining security, performance, scalability, and long-term supportability.
As an Umbraco Platinum Partner, Marcel Digital helps organizations navigate Umbraco upgrades and migrations with a structured approach designed to reduce risk, minimize disruption, and improve the overall health of their digital platform. Whether you’re running an aging version of Umbraco, managing a heavily customized implementation, or preparing for an upcoming End-of-Life deadline, our team helps ensure your website remains stable, secure, and easy to maintain.
From technical discovery and upgrade planning to deployment and post-launch support, we manage the full upgrade lifecycle with both business continuity and long-term scalability in mind.
Why Upgrade Umbraco?
As Umbraco continues evolving through modern .NET releases and ongoing platform improvements, organizations running older versions often begin experiencing growing technical and operational challenges.
An outdated CMS can create security vulnerabilities, compatibility issues, performance limitations, and increased maintenance overhead that make future development more difficult and costly.
A strategic Umbraco upgrade helps organizations:
Improve security and platform stability
Maintain compatibility with modern integrations and hosting environments
Reduce technical debt and ongoing maintenance costs
Improve website performance and scalability
Create better experiences for content editors and administrators
Ensure long-term support within the Umbraco ecosystem
Upgrading also creates an opportunity to evaluate existing architecture, modernize outdated implementations, and improve the maintainability of your overall website environment.
Planning for End-of-Life
Several legacy versions of Umbraco are approaching or have already reached End-of-Life (EOL), meaning they no longer receive security updates, bug fixes, or official support.
With Umbraco 13 reaching End-of-Life in December, organizations still operating on older implementations should begin planning upgrade initiatives before unsupported environments create larger operational or security concerns.
Waiting too long to upgrade can lead to increased development costs, unsupported dependencies, compatibility issues, and greater difficulty modernizing in the future.
Our team helps organizations evaluate existing environments, identify potential upgrade blockers, and build a roadmap that aligns with both technical requirements and business goals.
Umbraco 13 End-of-Life Is Approaching
With Umbraco 13 approaching End-of-Life, now is the time to begin planning your upgrade strategy. Remaining on unsupported versions can create security risks, compatibility issues, and long-term maintenance challenges that make future upgrades more complex and costly.
Marcel Digital helps organizations upgrade to Umbraco 17 with a structured, low-risk approach focused on performance, scalability, and long-term supportability.
Whether you’re managing a heavily customized implementation or planning a broader modernization initiative, our team can help you navigate the transition with confidence.
Our Umbraco Upgrade Process
Every Umbraco implementation is different, especially for organizations with custom functionality, integrations, or legacy architecture. Our approach is designed to create a smooth transition while minimizing disruption to your business and website operations.
Discovery & Audit
Every project begins with a detailed review of your current Umbraco environment.
Our team evaluates your existing version, custom code, integrations, third-party packages, hosting infrastructure, and overall site architecture to identify risks, dependencies, and modernization opportunities early in the process.
Upgrade Strategy & Planning
Once the assessment is complete, we develop a tailored upgrade strategy based on your environment and long-term goals. This may include package remediation, architecture improvements, infrastructure updates, or phased migration planning depending on the complexity of the implementation.
Our team works to preserve existing functionality while improving maintainability, performance, and long-term scalability.
Development & Deployment
Throughout the upgrade process, we perform extensive testing to validate functionality, integrations, content rendering, SEO considerations, and overall site stability before launch.
We follow structured deployment and QA processes designed to minimize downtime and reduce implementation risk while ensuring a smooth transition into the upgraded environment.
Ongoing Support
After launch, Marcel Digital continues supporting your team through ongoing maintenance, monitoring, optimization, and future upgrade planning. Our goal is to help organizations maintain a stable, scalable, and supportable Umbraco environment long after deployment is complete.
Types of Umbraco Upgrades We Support
Our team supports a wide range of Umbraco upgrade and modernization initiatives, including legacy platform migrations, version upgrades, infrastructure modernization, and architectural improvements.
This includes:
Legacy Umbraco version upgrades
.NET Framework to modern .NET migrations
Cloud and hosting modernization
Package and dependency remediation
Performance and scalability improvements
API and integration modernization
Ongoing support and optimization
Whether your organization needs a straightforward version upgrade or a more complex modernization initiative, our team can help guide the process from planning through deployment.
Why Marcel Digital?
Umbraco upgrades require more than technical execution. They require strategic planning, careful risk management, and a deep understanding of how website infrastructure impacts long-term business operations.
Marcel Digital combines Umbraco development expertise with enterprise digital strategy experience to help organizations modernize confidently while preserving performance, SEO visibility, and overall website stability.
Our team focuses on building scalable, maintainable solutions that support long-term growth rather than simply completing version upgrades.
Ready to Plan Your Umbraco Upgrade?
Whether you're preparing for an upcoming End-of-Life deadline or simply looking to modernize your website environment, Marcel Digital can help you build a scalable, supportable path forward.
Talk to our team about your Umbraco upgrade strategy.
Frequently Asked Questions
Upgrading ensures your website remains secure, supported, and compatible with modern technologies. It also provides access to new features, performance improvements, and long-term support from Umbraco.
Once a version reaches End of Life, it no longer receives security updates, bug fixes, or official support. This can increase security risks and create long-term maintenance challenges.
Yes. Our team supports upgrades and migrations from older Umbraco versions, including legacy .NET Framework implementations.
Timelines vary depending on your current version, custom functionality, integrations, and content complexity. After discovery, we provide a detailed roadmap and timeline estimate.
Our upgrade process includes SEO preservation strategies to help maintain rankings, metadata, URLs, redirects, and site performance throughout the migration process.
Hear From Our Happy Partners
I went with Marcel Digital over a larger - and much higher priced - competitor and it's one of the best decisions I've made. Marcel Digital are lovely people to deal with, extremely knowledgeable and approachable and willing to take the time to examine possible solutions that differ from how they would normally proceed. I value the partnership with their company and am planning on having our company be a client of theirs for years to come. Can't recommend them enough.
Michael Duquet
Director, Web Strategy, Absolute Software
Marcel was an excellent thought partner in the evaluation process as we considered major changes to our systems and website. They were willing to engage on many concerns and worries we had approaching the project. Thanks to their help, we felt confident that our concerns could be planned for, and that we had selected the right system for the changes we wanted to make. Their subject matter expertise and client care were exactly what we had hoped for.
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Dir. of Global Marketing, Worldpoint
I can't believe how simple Marcel Digital and Umbraco Cloud made it to get a beautiful and easy-to-use website. My only regret is not doing this sooner.
Dave Hamilton
Creative Director, StreetWise
We are very pleased with the Umbraco website developed by Marcel Digital. Their Umbraco Master's transparent development process and attention to detail resulted in a beautiful website that has made a tremendous impact on our digital marketing efforts. They continue to be a valued partner and one we recommend without hesitation.
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Sr. Vice President, Generali USA
Having a partnership with Marcel Digital has been a lifesaver for our business. We could not be happier with their work ethic, attention to detail, and superior expertise. I highly recommend them if you are looking for a talented, and trustworthy partner!
Diane Locher
Director of Sales and Marketing, Precision Medical
Marcel has been a great a partner in our journey into the 21st century. They helped us to build a beautiful and functional Umbraco website, and have been there to help support us anytime a crisis arises. The increase in quality of leads was immediately recognized and anytime there was a change in lead flow our Marcel team was immediately there to offer suggestions and help us stay updated. We truly view Marcel as an extension of our team.
Megan Patterson
International Operations Manager, Arbour Group
The overall experience of working with the Marcel team is outstanding. They have built a team of all-stars who are easy to communicate with and execute ideas effectively.
Andrew Barta
VP of Partner Relations, Umbraco HQ
