36 Hours to Rescue a Site: Lessons Learned from an Emergency Migration
Video Description
Speakers: Michael LeVan and Michael Weeks
When a federal agency's cloud hosting contract wasn't renewed with days to spare and no backup plan, Ad Hoc's Drupal team had one business weekend to migrate a live, publicly accessible, FedRAMP-conformant site to a new host. No access to the original servers. A 1.6GB database dump. Broken image styles, a relocated config folder, SSO module conflicts, and a security dependency chain that couldn't be uninstalled from a cold database.
This session is a real-world case study on what separates a local dev migration from a production-grade federal one. Attendees will walk away with a practical framework for the three legs of any Drupal migration (codebase, database, and files) and hard-won lessons about FedRAMP compliance, DNS timing, and why a static HTML fallback is sometimes the right call.
When a federal agency's cloud hosting contract wasn't renewed with days to spare and no backup plan, Ad Hoc's Drupal team had one business weekend to migrate a live, publicly accessible, FedRAMP-conformant site to a new host. No access to the original servers. A 1.6GB database dump. Broken image styles, a relocated config folder, SSO module conflicts, and a security dependency chain that couldn't be uninstalled from a cold database.
This session is a real-world case study on what separates a local dev migration from a production-grade federal one. Attendees will walk away with a practical framework for the three legs of any Drupal migration (codebase, database, and files) and hard-won lessons about FedRAMP compliance, DNS timing, and why a static HTML fallback is sometimes the right call.