Had trouble upgrading my website from J1.5.2 to J2.5.3 & I was very nervous about it with over 500+ pages.



The guys at SP Upgrade handled it without a problem; inexpensive, courteous, trustworthy and very prompt with replies & advice.



Best $'s I have ever spent as I had put 12 months work into the website.



Thank You SP

After several failed attemtps to upgrade a complex site with Jupgrade and SPupgrade, I finally managed to upgrade without errors. This largely due to the support of the SPugrade people and of Jen Cramer who recently published an excellent joomla migration course on lynda.com (search for Migrating from Joomla! 1.5 to Joomla! 2.5)



I followed the instruction Jen Cramer listed in her joomla update course:



-ported my 1.5 site over to a test location. (online not local)

and created an spugrade subdirectory in the 1.5 site.

-I made backups of data belonging to extensions (forms, newsletter, etc)

-I then stripped the site of all extensions and none joomla modules

migrated the site

-deleted the original 1.5 site in the root

and copied the content of the 2.5 spupgrade site to the empty root

-I then reinstalled JCE, Akeeba and the other plugins

-tested the test site and

-moved it to the live site.



So far--so good



Gert

The support stuff was incredibly fast and effective. I had some minor problems and they got solved very quickly.



Thanks!

I seldom write reviews but this one is worth highlighting. Filled with fear about migrating I clicked on the "Migrate" button. There was nothing to worry about even though we have a large website. All content (with intact links) was migrated without a hitch. I subsequently had some queries which I sen to the developer about doing subsequent migrate runs (the live site is still up and has constant changes so we wanted to be able to import that fresh content while we continued to do the conversion on localhost). He always responded very quickly and with the information needed. We had previously attempted to use jUpgrade but sadly it was a disaster for us. It is a little surprising that Joomla seem to be pushing it so hard when it seems clear that it is not quite ready for the task yet. Also, you do not retain your original ids in jUpgrade.



While SP Upgrade does not attempt to migrate extensions, I would prefer to do the extensions manually than use something with appears inherently unstable and does not maintain the integrity of your content ids.



So well done to the developer! A small price to pay Thank you.

Perfect works! Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 2.5 in five minutes! Thanks lot for your work!

I recently purchased this component to upgrade a large site from 1.5 running Jomsocial.



The upgrade was simple and easy to implement - what a time saver!



I had only one problem with user preferences in 1.5 causing a login problem in 1.7.3. I wrote to Cyend and they prepared a bespoke version that allowed me to import users without the preferences.



This was support at its very best and is a credit to the ethos of the Joomla Community.



Anyone who is nervous about upgrading to 1.7. or 2.5 - don't worry, this is a fantastic component and well worth every penny.

I waited until now to update my Joomla website from version 1.5 to version 2.5 and skipped the other version updates in between waiting for a tool like this one. One that works as good as it is advertised to work. I ran into a few issues because the SimpleScript installer on my server doesn't allow for a Joomla install *without* the sample data, so I wrote to tech support and Panayiotis Halouvas gave me simple directions to install Joomla 2.5x manually (which I had never done before). Then I ran the extension and it worked perfect the first time. Can't ask for more than that. Thank you for a great product and keep up the most excellent work.

Don´t spend money on this extension!

I wanted to upgrade from 1.5.25 to 2.5.1 and everything broke down and I had to reinstall my site using Akeeba backup.

Then their support migrated my database for e and sent me a migrated one but i still didn´t work. The menues where corrupt and every alias also, so the links didn´t work. I tried three times and then I gave up.

I tried Jupgrade instead and when my webhotell turned off the safe_mode everything worked very nice. Conclusion: Don´t spend money on SP upgrade Use Jupgrade instead.

Thank you for the good work... after a lil problem installing... and couple email exchange with the support... i finally made it work...

Keep the good work.

Great extension! worth every cent you spend on it. It just makes the migration from Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 2.5 that much less daunting.



I ran into a little uncertainly as to the right steps to take and the Support was brilliant to say the least, no question was too small or too time

consuming to answer by Panayiotis Halouvas, if I could rate it higher I would. Excellent! that is all I can say!