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Leaving Acquia
Acquia is the most expensive option on this list because it's an enterprise platform. If you're an Acquia customer with a site that has gone dormant, the savings from migrating are dramatic.
10-year cost projection
What Acquia actually is
Enterprise-grade Drupal hosting and tooling, built by Drupal's founder.
Pricing: Pricing is enterprise-only and quote-based; typical small-org plans start in the $300–600/mo range.
Acquia's pitch is the full enterprise CMS treatment: governance, compliance, multi-site, audit trails, dedicated infrastructure. All of that is appropriate for a financial services compliance team or a Fortune 500 marketing department. None of it is appropriate for a small institution running a brochure.
Acquia migrations are usually the largest savings projects we do. The typical 'ARR turning into one-time fee' delta is in the thousands of euros per year.
What they do well
- Genuine enterprise compliance
- Multi-site governance
- Drupal-specific deep expertise
Why people leave
- Budget pressure on dormant sites
- Realization that the site isn't enterprise-scale anymore
- Acquia's contract structures don't fit small operations
What you keep when leaving
- Every URL
- All Drupal content
- SEO history
What you lose leaving
- Audit trails (irrelevant for static)
- Multi-site console (irrelevant if you have one site)
- Enterprise SLAs (replaced by Cloudflare's CDN reliability, included)
Our take
Acquia is built for the active life of a major Drupal site. Static migration is what you do when that life ends but the content shouldn't.
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