Migration, Conversion and Specialty Import Services - including Incremental Imports
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Always adding features for add-ons, finding ways to make sections faster, etc. 
I want to provide another recommendation (my third or fourth ongoing recommendation) for Ken (@MySiteGuy) & Driven2Services for more work that was extremely well-done, thorough, accurate and timely. This time around, Ken re-hosted my XF 2.2.14 forum, onto a new, clean-slate Ubuntu VPS from the old VPS, which had been in continual operation since March 2019.
In the process, Ken moved the forum onto a clean, virgin stack, migrating to the latest version of XenForo, migrating the php version (8.2.x to 8.3.x), re-doing my Java+Elasticsearch combination to make it more reliable, moving from MySQL to MariaDB, and moving from Apache to litespeed for the web server. All of this migration. modernization and optimization work was done literally with nearly no forum down-time, and all existing Apache redirects in place from my old vBulletin URLs remain in place and functioning perfectly.
More than a month on, the "newly re-hosted" forum has worked flawlessly, and most importantly the Advanced Search functionality (via Elasticsearch) is now extremely reliable -- zero failures or downtime, whereas on the old forum it would disconnect about once a week and require either an Elasticsearch restart, or a full VPS reboot.
Can't say enough great things about the timeliness, pricing and accuracy of Ken and Driven2Services. Thanks again.
In the process, Ken moved the forum onto a clean, virgin stack, migrating to the latest version of XenForo, migrating the php version (8.2.x to 8.3.x), re-doing my Java+Elasticsearch combination to make it more reliable, moving from MySQL to MariaDB, and moving from Apache to litespeed for the web server. All of this migration. modernization and optimization work was done literally with nearly no forum down-time, and all existing Apache redirects in place from my old vBulletin URLs remain in place and functioning perfectly.
More than a month on, the "newly re-hosted" forum has worked flawlessly, and most importantly the Advanced Search functionality (via Elasticsearch) is now extremely reliable -- zero failures or downtime, whereas on the old forum it would disconnect about once a week and require either an Elasticsearch restart, or a full VPS reboot.
Can't say enough great things about the timeliness, pricing and accuracy of Ken and Driven2Services. Thanks again.
@MySiteGuy Thank you Ken for VBulletin migration to xenforo. It was fast and professional. I would highly recommend him.
Our vBulletin import now support importing board title, board description, board default email "from" address, contact us email address, bounced email address, Googla Analytics property id, censor words, email server settings, max post length, post messages per page, banned emails, and banned IP addresses from vBulletin. These can save a site owner/admin lots of time during migration since they'll no longer need to manually handle these. Large numbers of censor words will especially save time, since these normally must be manually entered one at a time.
VB to XF went well, done very quick and from what I can tell no major issues, I should never have moved away from XF. Thank you, happy to recommend
I have a mate who doesn't post here who has his forum on proboards.
I'll get him to sign up here so that he can chat to you.
His site's url is https://westernbulldogs.boards.net
I'll get him to sign up here so that he can chat to you.
His site's url is https://westernbulldogs.boards.net
Review:
In September, 2026, we contacted @MySiteGuy (Driven 2 Services) to convert our InvisionCommunity forums to Xenforo. We had tried to do the conversion ourselves, but were met with several database issues that seemed too complex to resolve. While our forum isn't too busy right now, we have a lot of history. In the overall scheme of things we aren't that big, but the forum contains:
The process itself was done on my VPS, with very little effort from me. The user experience has been almost seamless, with only non-related changes in the software being an issue for my members. The price was very competitive. Overall I am very satisfied with @MySiteGuy and Driven2Services.com, and will not hesitate to use them again. I recommend them without reservation.
In September, 2026, we contacted @MySiteGuy (Driven 2 Services) to convert our InvisionCommunity forums to Xenforo. We had tried to do the conversion ourselves, but were met with several database issues that seemed too complex to resolve. While our forum isn't too busy right now, we have a lot of history. In the overall scheme of things we aren't that big, but the forum contains:
- Over 6k users
- 11k threads
- 115k messages
- 61k attachments in messages (14.4 GB of images)
The process itself was done on my VPS, with very little effort from me. The user experience has been almost seamless, with only non-related changes in the software being an issue for my members. The price was very competitive. Overall I am very satisfied with @MySiteGuy and Driven2Services.com, and will not hesitate to use them again. I recommend them without reservation.
Thank you so much for the very kind review, and I'm happy you're pleased with the results. Again, thank you!
My pleasure. After having done a couple of migrations in the past, this has been the smoothest.
You're the best there is in this marketplace.
Thank you, that's very thoughtful.
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