Risks of Remaining on Drupal 7 After Its End of Life

Updating Drupal involves a certain amount of planning and execution work that companies often choose to postpone. However, sooner or later the time comes to tackle the task. And in fact, the longer the task is postponed, the greater the gap between Drupal 7 and the current mature version of Drupal, which tends to make the project and its cost more difficult. Therefore, it is always better to get ahead of the updates rather than having to play catch-up.

Is it time to migrate to Drupal 11?

In general, a Drupal version stops receiving support once two newer versions of the platform become available. For example, Drupal 10 will stop receiving support when Drupal 12 is released. Therefore, at this time it is not strictly necessary to migrate from Drupal 10 to Drupal 11, since Drupal 10 continues to receive security support until December 2026 (specifically until December 9, 2026, when Drupal 12 is scheduled to be released).

Why Use Drupal

In a previous article, we talked about what Drupal is and what it is used for.

Today, we're going to review the advantages and explain why and in which cases we recommend using Drupal for your website.

In general, when we talk about Drupal, we are referring to a content management system that provides flexibility in managing your site, as well as the functionality that can be added (both during development and in later stages).

Who uses Drupal

Currently, there are over one million websites that use Drupal as their main platform.

With Drupal, you can design and develop a highly functional website from scratch, with a lot of content, and scalable over time.

More and more companies, universities, digital media outlets, government institutions, and organizations are adopting Drupal to create their official institutional websites, and this is due to several characteristics that Drupal possesses.

Benefits of Using Drupal

If you need to develop a new web project, you're probably wondering how to do it, who to hire, and what technology to use.

You will start by looking for different companies and individuals who can do the job you have in mind. A corporate website, an ecommerce site, a blog, an intranet—any others?

You may have heard words like WordPress, Joomla, Magento, Drupal, CMS, plugins, modules, templates, and now your need to learn more about the topic is even greater.

Web Development

With our web development service, we build websites based on Drupal, either from scratch, by improving an existing site, or by migrating a site already built on another platform. The goal, in all cases, is to take full advantage of the complete functionality available on Drupal.org.

Maintenance

With our maintenance plans we work systematically on the maintenance of your Drupal site to guarantee its optimal functionality and ongoing security. 

The following maintenance plans are the most frequently requested by our clients. We also offer customized plans.

If you also need a support, you can consult our Drupal Support service.