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Umbraco Upgrade Decisions: Is This Still the Right Site

Knowing where a site stands technically is only half the picture. In part two I look at whether the site is still fit for purpose, what Umbraco's support lifecycle actually means in practice, and what staying on a version honestly commits you to, before deciding whether change is even the right call. Continue reading

by Rachel Breeze

Running the Umbraco backoffice behind Windows Authentication

From Umbraco 14 onwards, the backoffice stops working on sites where IIS has Windows Authentication on and anonymous authentication off. Here's why that happens, and a small package that fixes it for Umbraco 17 and 18.

by Justin Neville

Upgrading Umbraco 13 to 17 on Umbraco Cloud? Set the .NET runtime first

Umbraco Cloud deploy failing with NETSDK1045 after a 13 to 17 upgrade? The .NET runtime setting in the Cloud portal needs changing.

by Nathaniel Nunes

Manage video in Umbraco, stream elsewhere

uMux now supports Umbraco 18, joined by uBun and uGum for syncing local videos to Mux, Bunny Stream or Gumlet without changing the editor workflow.

by Søren Kottal

How I built the Umbraco Kent Meetup website using Umbraco and Astro

How I built the Umbraco Kent Meetup site headless on Umbraco 17 and Astro, hosted on Azure for less than a Cloud starter, without writing any of the code myself.

by Justin Neville

How much does an Umbraco website implementation cost?

Explore Umbraco website implementation costs from €4,000 to €100,000+, typical project timelines, and the key factors that shape your budget.

by DotSee Web Services

Inspecting an Umbraco SQLite database on Windows

Use DB Browser for SQLite to inspect an Umbraco database safely, understand WAL files, run read-only queries and explore the database with God Mode 17.

by Dan 'Diplo' Booth

Diagnosing a Redis session timeout that only happened in production

A StackExchange.Redis 3 upgrade caused session timeouts that only appeared in production, and the real cause turned out to be .NET ThreadPool starvation rather than the client itself.

by Justin Neville