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Migrations and rescue

A platform rescue is the work of diagnosing, stabilizing and migrating an old, undocumented or failing system so the business keeps operating while it is replaced in stages.

The method at a glance

How the system works

What it does, in order, and what it never does.

The method, step by step Each step comes from the method described below.
  1. Diagnose first
  2. Stabilize
  3. Migrate in waves
  4. Degrade gracefully
  5. Make failure visible

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What the system never does

  • It never changes production before the diagnosis is done.
  • It never drops email or URLs silently.
  • It never leaves a half-made record when a dependency is down.
  • It never ships without a rollback path.

KINTO takes on rescues where nobody fully knows what runs, what depends on what or which version is live.

The problem

Rescue cases have a common shape: the platform works until it does not, and nobody can say why. A payments platform inherited from a previous developer had no documentation and failures nobody saw: sign-in returned an error, and approving users left accounts half-created. A hosting agency’s sites were duplicated across legacy infrastructure, and nobody knew which version of each site was live. A store went down whenever bots crawled its filter URLs.

How KINTO approaches it

  1. Diagnose first. Inventory, network and costs, and an analysis of what actually runs. In the hosting case that meant classifying every domain automatically and reconciling DNS and registrars.
  2. Stabilize. For the failing store, the old site was stabilized within days before any migration began.
  3. Migrate in waves. Each wave moves a group of sites or modules, with the rollback ready. The hosting migration ran wave by wave to a new server and static hosting, with no server where none is needed.
  4. Degrade gracefully. If a third party fails, approval stays pending and an idempotent process completes it later, instead of leaving half-made records.
  5. Make failure visible. Logging on, alerts for the failures that matter, and a runbook with idempotent deployment and rollback.

What the system never does

  • It never changes production before the diagnosis is done.
  • It never drops email or URLs silently.
  • It never leaves a half-made record when a dependency is down.
  • It never ships without a rollback path.

Who it is for

Companies with a platform they depend on but cannot fully explain: legacy code, undocumented integrations, repeated incidents or a migration they keep postponing. Open items are stated: in the payments case, validation with real users at close still has no evidence.

Case studies

Case studies that prove it

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Frequently asked questions
Where do you start with a failing legacy platform?

With diagnosis, before touching anything. In a payments platform with no documentation, KINTO audited the cloud infrastructure, verified the code was identical to production, identified fragile dependencies and found the root cause with targeted queries and telemetry. Only then did it change anything.

Can you migrate without losing email, URLs or data?

That is the design goal. In a hosting agency's rescue, each client's email was preserved at every step. In one store migration, about 98% of URLs stayed on the same path; in another, 301 redirects covered the old URLs.

How are failures kept from staying hidden?

With observability and alerts. In the payments case, failures went unnoticed because traffic was low and nothing raised an alarm. After KINTO turned on logging and alerts for the failures that matter, detection time fell to 15 to 30 minutes.

How do you migrate dozens of sites at once?

In waves. For a hosting agency with dozens of domains, KINTO classified every domain automatically, reconciled DNS and registrars, and migrated wave by wave. Every active site went live on the new platform, every WordPress site came under one central panel and publishing time fell from nearly an hour to a few minutes.

Can KINTO migrate my store or site without losing SEO?

Yes, as a design goal: keep the same paths where possible and redirect the rest with 301s. In one migration KINTO inventoried every store URL first and about 98% stayed on the same path; in another, 301 redirects covered the old URLs. None of its migration cases yet has evidence of later sales or rankings.

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