Works extremely well, even for a site with close to a thousand articles and almost five hundred menu items, with thousands of users. It migrated my 1.5 joomla to 1.7, including the image files and some modules, even remembering to put those modules in their original places. And with the unexpected server timeouts, the process can be restarted without issue as the extension keeps track of its progress. Just superb; well worth the money.

I have used this on 2 sites so far and have had excellent luck with it. Not to rip on Jupgrade, but that broke many parts of my site. SP Update does not. Because it migrates your information not 3rd party extensions there is no conflict if you forget to uninstall something not compatible with the new version. With that in mind you will have to reinstall your extensions, but fresh installs are much better. I would rather have the peace of mind that some weird issue won't come up after I spend hours and hours getting the new site reconfigured.



As for support, it is like other have said, excellent. I was working on a weekend in the US and it was night time in Cyprus and I was still getting support! I had a couple questions, because I didn't understand, not because of the component and it was resolved quickly.



My question was with MySQLi, which is recommended when preforming the migration with SP Update. Some websites that had posts on using this said to install the new J1.6/7 using MySQLi which I never heard of. Long story short it is a server side component and if available can simply be turned on in the Global Config b4 migration. I had to call my hosting company to see if it was on. There is some way to check it yourself too.



Overall I will be using this for all sites. Thanks for creating something that works.

This is a fantastic tool to have in your toolbox. While JUpdate is great, it doesn't handle all the little things needed for every conversion, even if you've tested okay on your test site. This tool lets you identify exactly the components you want to bring across the J1.5 - J1.6/7 conversion border.



Very fast response from support.



I won't attempt another upgrade without this tool. I especially appreciate that I can perform the upgrade across servers, a very nice feature.



I used this tool to perform a 100% reinstall of my Joomla system, cleaning out a bunch of modules & components I no longer use, cleaning the database of unneeded tables, etc. This alone makes the tool worth the price.



I can't say enough for this tool. It saved me hours of work.

I have a couple large sites that have 10's of thousands of articles and hundreds of categories. And I run them on a shared server, which means I don't get a lot of memory from the hosting company. Jupgrade stood no chance. SP Upgrade was able to do the job. For both sites, the vendor had to do some tweaking for me. Good people to work with so this is an extension that's well worth the money!

I had been trying other options where I was not getting an adequate response from the publisher. Then I came across SP UPGRADE, which made my migration a smooth sailing. Great work! Great Extension! BUT ABOVE ALL: SUPERB SUPPORT BY THE MR. HALOUVAS. I was stunned by the response time and the offers to help from Mr. Havoulas; this has made it easy and fast for my learning curve. I highly recommend dealing with Mr. Halouvas as his customer focus is your guarantee of success. That is a Win-Win combo.

I was dreading transitioning from Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 1.7. In my Joomla 1.5 site I had a ton of articles, some in categories and sections, meta tags, image folders, modules, etc. etc.



I installed SP Upgrade on my development server. Did the easy configuration to import the data and database from the old site. And pushed the button and within minutes my site was migrated to my development server.



What would have taken days took minutes!



Highly recommended by Rowby!!

In planning how to convert from 1.5 to 1.6, I did some test runs on 1.6 and realised that I have weeks of work in front of me. However, thanks you SP Upgrade, it has taken just one day to convert my first largest site. Extension program executes well and simple to make the update.



Thanks again

transco

thank you so much for this great work.

Looking for a component which could easily transfer articles with id's I saw this extension. Used it on multiple sites which had a long history in Google and couldn't loose their url's, this component gave me a quick and easy solution.



Install, select which data you want to import (articles, users, menu's, etc), import, done! How easy is that? I recommend this component in stead of the one recommended by Joomla itself..



This one works without bugs and is worth the money! I will use this component for all my future migrations.

I've tried several components for Joomla migration, none provided a proper site migration. This component is great, it converts even the template.

I had several problems when first attempting the migration (my mistake, I used incorrect info about old 1.5 site) and had to contact the developer who provided excellent support. I recommend this component to everyone who wishes to migrate to J 1.6 without hassle.