Initial triage
We assess the state of the old site, the practical risks, the content that still matters and the safest route to recover it.
Legacy site recovery for websites that are compromised, unmanageable, or simply no longer safe to build on top of.
When an old website has become unstable, infected, suspended or impossible to trust, Tywi Digital can help recover the valuable content, protect what matters and move the organisation onto a cleaner footing.
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Drag to see how a compromised site can be transformed
Sometimes the old site is not something to tweak. It is something to salvage from carefully.
Recovery work starts by identifying what is still valuable and what should never be carried forward unchanged.
That can include compromised CMS installs, suspended hosting accounts, broken plugins, obsolete templates, huge unstructured archives, or years of documents and images trapped in a system that nobody wants to touch.
Tywi Digital approaches this in stages: stabilise the situation, recover the useful material, decide what deserves a cleaner structure, and then rebuild onto a modern, supportable platform.
On Dyfed Powys NARPO, that meant extracting data from a 14-year-old Joomla site that had been compromised, suspended for spam email activity, and had become a liability rather than an asset.
- Common signs
- Malware, spam, broken admin, fragile hosting
- Key risk
- Losing valuable archives during the move
- Best response
- Recover first, then rebuild cleanly
- End goal
- A platform you can trust again
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What legacy recovery usually involves
What legacy recovery usually involves
before the new site can properly begin.
Forensic content extraction
Important pages, images, documents and archive material are pulled out so the useful history is not tied to the failing platform.
Restructuring what was messy
Long archive pages, scattered assets and inconsistent content are reorganised into cleaner models that fit the new site properly.
Rebuilding on safer foundations
The replacement site is built on a platform that is easier to maintain, more secure and less likely to become the same kind of problem later.
Security and governance reset
Permissions, forms, plugins, hosting and site structure are cleaned up so the new site is safer and more professionally managed.
A calmer platform going forward
The finished site should feel less fragile to run, easier to edit and more aligned with the organisation’s real needs instead of its past constraints.
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When recovery is handled carefully,
When recovery is handled carefully,
valuable history does not need to be lost.
The best legacy recovery work protects what matters while giving the organisation a safer place to move forward from.
Previous platform age
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The Dyfed Powys NARPO project replaced a 14-year-old Joomla site that had become compromised and unsustainable.
Legacy complexity
Historical photos recovered
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Hundreds of legacy images were rescued and reintroduced into a searchable archive rather than disappearing with the old system.
Archive rescue
Rebuilt quality benchmark
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The new platform achieved 100 across Lighthouse, showing that a rescue project can still end in a very high-quality build.
Quality after recoveryIf the old website feels risky to touch, it may be time to recover and replace it properly.
Tywi Digital can help assess the situation, recover what still matters and shape a cleaner route forward.