The Day (Den) newspaper

Ukraine's Den / The Day (День) is a national newspaper with a deep archive — well over a million entities, content in several languages. The brief: move the platform from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9, rebuild the front end on a design and markup the client supplied, and don't lose performance or search rankings on the way.

We treated it as a content-fidelity project first. A Migrate API pipeline carried the full archive across — content types, taxonomies, references, files, users — with the content architecture restructured for Drupal 9 along the way. Redirects and metadata were handled deliberately so the paper's SEO survived the move intact. Custom modules were ported to Drupal 9 APIs, the multilingual setup was rebuilt, and the supplied design was implemented as the theme. The build took roughly two years, and we stayed on for support afterwards — the engagement ran from 2021 through 2025.

Then uptime became an editorial concern. Ukrainian newsrooms are a standing DDoS target; this one came under sustained pressure, so we put it behind Cloudflare, set up geo-IP blocking, and hardened the stack — keeping a working news platform online when it mattered most.