Umbraco Cloud & hosting services

Choose Umbraco Cloud if you want to focus on building and managing your digital solution rather than maintaining hosting infrastructure. With built-in environments, automated deployments, and platform management, it helps teams deliver faster while reducing operational overhead. Self-hosting may be a better fit if your organization requires complete control over its Azure architecture, custom compliance policies, or highly specialized deployment workflows.

Yes. Umbraco Cloud is built on Microsoft Azure and provides a managed platform with automated updates, security patches, backups, and infrastructure management. It also includes built-in security features such as TLS/SSL management and edge protection, helping reduce the operational risks associated with self-hosted environments.

While Umbraco Cloud secures the platform and infrastructure, application-level security depends on the implementation. UKAD follows secure development practices and helps organizations build and maintain secure Umbraco solutions.

Yes. Existing Umbraco solutions running on Azure App Service can be migrated to Umbraco Cloud. Before the migration, we review package compatibility, custom integrations, environment settings, and Azure-specific dependencies to plan the most suitable approach. Your existing website can remain live while the new environment is prepared and tested, helping minimize disruption.

Yes. Self-hosted Umbraco solutions running on IIS, virtual machines, on-premises infrastructure, or other hosting platforms can be migrated to Umbraco Cloud. We assess your current environment, Umbraco version, custom functionality, and integrations to define the most appropriate migration approach and support a smooth transition.

Yes. UKAD can migrate Umbraco 8, 10, and 13 solutions to Umbraco Cloud. The migration approach depends on your current Umbraco version, custom functionality, integrations, and project complexity.

Modern versions such as Umbraco 10 and 13 can often be migrated with relatively minor changes. Older platforms, including Umbraco 8, typically require a version upgrade, code modernization, and package replacement before moving to Umbraco Cloud. We assess your current solution and recommend the most suitable migration path.

Yes. Umbraco Cloud does not create vendor lock-in. Because Umbraco is an open-source CMS, your solution remains fully portable. If your requirements change, it can be moved to another hosting environment, and we can help plan and deliver the transition. Once moved, your team takes responsibility for infrastructure, updates, backups, and platform operations.

If you use Umbraco Cloud, Umbraco Deploy is already included and forms part of the standard workflow between Development, Staging, and Live environments. It helps move schema and content changes without manually rebuilding them in each environment.

For self-hosted projects, Umbraco Deploy is optional. It is most useful when you manage several environments or need a structured way to transfer content and configuration. Simpler single-environment websites may not require it.

The total cost of an Umbraco Cloud project includes the platform subscription and implementation services. The subscription is provided by Umbraco HQ, while implementation costs vary depending on the size and complexity of your solution.

At UKAD, we help to choose the right Umbraco Cloud approach for your business goals. Subscription plans are available on the Umbraco Cloud Pricing page. Whether you need cloud migration, custom development, dedicated Umbraco developers, or ongoing support, we provide the technical expertise to deliver it.

Migration to Umbraco Cloud is carried out in stages, including environment setup, application and content migration, integration validation, and testing before launch. With proper planning, your existing website remains live until the new environment is ready, helping avoid downtime and minimize business disruption.

The timeline depends on the size of your website, the current Umbraco version, custom integrations, and the complexity of the migration.

A new Umbraco Cloud environment can be set up within hours, while a straightforward migration from a modern Umbraco version typically takes a few days. More complex upgrades - such as migrating from Umbraco 7 or 8 - may take several weeks due to code modernization, package replacement, and testing.

Project timelines are primarily influenced by custom functionality, content migration, integrations, and testing.

Managed Umbraco Hosting includes infrastructure management, monitoring, security updates, backups, performance optimization, version upgrades, and deployment support. We also help troubleshoot technical issues, keeping your Umbraco Cloud environment secure, stable, and up to date.

Umbraco Cloud uses a structured deployment workflow with separate Development, Staging, and Live environments. Code, configuration, and schema changes are managed through Git and Umbraco Deploy, while content editors can safely publish and synchronize content between environments using built-in tools.

This approach allows teams to test changes before release, automate deployments through CI/CD pipelines, and deliver updates with minimal risk and disruption.

Load Balancing is recommended for websites and applications that experience high traffic, seasonal spikes, or require high availability. By distributing traffic across multiple servers, it improves performance, supports business continuity, and reduces the risk of downtime.

It is particularly valuable for e-commerce platforms, customer portals, SaaS applications, and other business-critical solutions where reliability and scalability are essential. For smaller websites with predictable traffic, a single well-configured environment is often sufficient.

Yes. We can take over existing Umbraco Cloud projects, whether they were built by your in-house team or another vendor. Our engineers provide ongoing support, performance optimization, version upgrades, infrastructure management, and continued development to help your platform evolve over time.