website migration · for responsible firms

Migrate your old website to something modern, secure, and flexible.

If your firm still runs on WordPress or any of these legacy platforms, you're carrying years of plugins, patches, and exposure you no longer need. Elephant rebuilds your site on a modern static foundation — faster, hardened against breaches, and still simple to change. A managed migration, handled end to end.

A managed migration · You keep editing · info@elephant.ca

the stack

Modern.

Pure HTML and CSS on today's edge infrastructure. No legacy framework, no plugin sprawl, no bloat to carry forward.

the surface

Secure.

No plugins, no database, no admin login. Almost nothing left for an attacker to reach — or for a scan to grade against you.

the workflow

Flexible.

Change anything by asking, in plain language. Review it in staging, publish when you're ready. You're never locked out.

the reality

Your insurer is already scanning your website.

Cyber underwriters scan every public asset you own — your domain, your IP, your website — and price your premium on what they find. A WordPress install full of plugins is the easiest thing on that report to hold against you.

what the scan sees

The same firm. Two grades.

Here is how an external scan reads a typical advisory site before and after migration. Same content. Same brand. A different attack surface entirely.

Before high risk
External scan · WordPress + plugins
D 58%
Externally reachable components64 live
  • WordPress core + 14 pluginsoutdated
  • /wp-admin login exposedopen
  • MySQL database reachablereachable
  • Known CVEs in dependencies9 unpatched
  • Patch cadencemanual
  • Security headerspartial
After low risk
External scan · static HTML & CSS
A 96%
Externally reachable components2 live
  • Static HTML & CSSserved
  • Admin loginremoved
  • Databasenone
  • Third-party dependencies0
  • Patch cadencen / a
  • Security headersenforced

Illustrative external-scan output · grading modeled on common insurer rating scales

the underwriting shift

From trust to verify.

Cyber insurers no longer take your questionnaire at its word. Roughly three in four now run their own external scan during underwriting — the same outside-in view an attacker gets. Your public website is the cheapest, fastest signal they have, so it stands in for your whole security posture.

It cuts both ways. Documented controls can move your premium twenty to forty percent at renewal — and a control you attested to but never implemented can void the claim after an incident. A smaller, cleaner attack surface lowers your real risk and your price at the same time.

3 in 4

carriers now run their own external scan during underwriting — self-attestation is no longer the end of the conversation.

20–40%

the swing your documented controls can move a premium at renewal. Missing the baseline can get you declined outright.

26%

of breaches involve web-application attacks — the second-most common pattern, and your website is the always-on front door.

Briefing one
Why hackers and insurers both scan your website
The attacker's playbook, the underwriting shift, and what a single breach costs a regulated firm.
Learn more
Briefing two
Get found: From SEO to GEO to AEO
How search visibility moved to AI-generated answers — and why one old website now loses on ranking, AI citation, and the security scan at once.
Learn more
how migration works

We scan. We rebuild. We cut over.

01

Scan & audit.

We run the same kind of external scan your insurer runs, then map every page, asset, form, and redirect on your existing site. You see the before-grade up front.

02

Rebuild static.

Your site is rebuilt as pure HTML and CSS — pixel-faithful, faster, with nothing executing on a server. Forms route through a single hardened, hosted endpoint.

03

Cut over.

We stage the new site, set your redirects, and move DNS in a scheduled window. Your URLs, your search rankings, and your inbox keep working.

you still own the words

Do your own modifications without us.

You are currently paying for website changes or do it internally in a complex system. Elephant ends it. You change your site by asking — in plain language — review it in staging, and push it live when you're ready.

01

Ask in plain language.

Tell AI what to change, the way you'd brief a colleague. "Add this news to our website." "Add a disclosure to the footer." No editor, no markup, no ticket, no bill to pay for the change.

02

Review in staging.

Every change lands on a private staging copy first. See exactly what moves — and what doesn't — before anything is public.

03

Push to live.

One click promotes staging to production. Full version history. Roll back to any prior version at any time.

northpoint.example — staging 1 change pending
Change the homepage heading to "Fiduciary wealth management for families and foundations."
Staged. The new heading is on your staging site — review it, then tell me when to push to live.
v.214 → v.215 Push to live
the trade you're making

Less to defend. More to show.

What's gone

No plugins. No database. No patch cost.

  • No WordPress admin to brute-force
  • No plugin or core updates every few months
  • No database to exfiltrate
  • No server-side code to exploit
  • No surprise maintenance windows
What's left

A site auditors and hackers can't fault.

  • A smaller, cleaner external footprint
  • Higher scores on the scans underwriters read
  • Sub-second load times, served from the edge
  • Evidence you can hand to a regulator
  • Edits in minutes — by asking, not ticketing
what you stop paying for

Stop paying for maintenance
you no longer need.

A WordPress site is never finished. Core updates, plugin updates, theme patches, security fixes, broken-after-update repairs — a recurring bill, month after month, just to keep the site from breaking.

A static site has nothing to update. No plugins to patch, no core to upgrade, no framework to keep current, no database to back up. Nothing runs on a server, so there is nothing to maintain. The maintenance retainer goes away.

after migration

Less surface. Better numbers.

97%

fewer externally reachable components on a typical migration.

0

plugins, databases, or admin logins exposed to the internet.

A

the external scan grade regulated firms are increasingly expected to hold.

start with a scan

See what your underwriter sees.

A free external scan of your current site — the same view an insurer gets. No login, no access to your systems required.

What can we do for you? — choose any
You'll get an answer in maximum 2 business days