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        <description>Long-form stories from the Omega8.cc workshop: Drupal, Backdrop CMS, Ægir hosting, and thirty years of keeping websites alive.</description>
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            <title>Drupal 7 Goes Backdrop with Ease</title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                                Drupal 7 has reached its end of life, and the jump to modern Drupal is in practice a rebuild, not an upgrade – new architecture, a contrib audit, a theme rewritten from scratch. There has always been a calmer answer, and it carries a name this community knows well: Backdrop CMS, the community continuation of the Drupal 7 lineage. What was missing was the road. BOA-5.88.8, the 'Continuity Edition', builds it: Backdrop as a first-class citizen on the Ægir control panel, and a supported upgrade which converts a copy of your Drupal 7 site while the original keeps serving, so you decide at leisure when to hand over the keys. Even Drupal 6 sites can travel D6 to D7 to Backdrop entirely through panel tasks. Here is how the whole road works, and why it never touches your original site.
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            <title>Thirty Years of Hosting</title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                                Some thirty years ago we started working with Adgrafix, the American company which shipped the world's first web hosting control panel, written entirely in Perl. This is the story of everything since: our own Perl panel and web store in the nineties, the Perl-to-PHP crossing which taught us to never strand a customer, the years of testing every open source CMS on the planet, the Drupal adventure, the Ægir torch which Bryght left behind, our Barracuda & Octopus (BOA) stack, and the 8 in our name finally tipping over into ∞ this year, when Backdrop CMS joined the family. Written for the anniversary, and for everyone who keeps old sites alive.
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