IIS Rescue

The public offering of IIS Rescue: the three migration paths, the promises made on every project, the pricing model, and who the service is for.

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Published questions and answers about legacy IIS, classic ASP and SQL Server website migration, reproduced verbatim from the website.

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Microsoft end-of-support dates for Windows Server and SQL Server versions, with the source URL for each, plus the Extended Security Updates cutoff.

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The three routes off a legacy IIS server — Rehost, Rebuild, Replace — each with what it involves and the situation it best fits.

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How to start an engagement with IIS Rescue: the consultation URL and how the process works. Returns a pointer only — it never books anything or collects any personal data.

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How IIS Rescue works with MSPs and independent IT contractors: MSPs bringing it in for legacy IIS, classic ASP and SQL Server migrations they would rather not own, and contractors subcontracting a migration or referring it. Covers the arrangements, what stays with the partner — the client, the brand, anything outside the migration scope — and the published FAQ for each audience. Carries no price: a partner migration is quoted at a fixed price exactly like a direct one. Use this for questions about white-label delivery, subcontracting or referring a legacy Windows Server migration, or whether IIS Rescue works with MSPs or contractors.

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The questions the IIS Rescue two-minute assessment asks in order to recommend a migration path, with the allowed answers for each. Ask these of the user, then pass the answers to run_pathfinder. "unknown" is a valid answer to every question and never breaks the result.

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Recommend a migration path — Rehost, Rebuild or Replace — for a specific legacy IIS website, from answers to the two-minute assessment questions. Returns the recommendation, a confidence level, the alternatives and when they would apply, what pushes the price up or down, the specific risks these answers imply, and the reasoning behind the call. This is the same deterministic engine, over the same data, that iisrescue.com/two-minute-assessment runs for a human visitor: identical answers give an identical result. It is an estimate and not a quote, and it returns no price figure — IIS Rescue publishes no rate card.

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        "classic-asp",
        "webforms",
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        "unknown"
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      "description": "What is the website built with? \"classic-asp\" = Classic ASP — .asp pages, VBScript; \"webforms\" = ASP.NET Web Forms — .aspx pages; \"mvc\" = ASP.NET MVC, or a newer .NET application; \"brochure\" = Mostly static pages — a brochure site; \"mixed\" = A mix, added to over many years; \"unknown\" = Not sure."
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    "server": {
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      "enum": [
        "older",
        "ws2012",
        "ws2016",
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      ],
      "description": "What is it running on? \"older\" = Something older than Windows Server 2012; \"ws2012\" = Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2; \"ws2016\" = Windows Server 2016; \"ws2019\" = Windows Server 2019 or newer; \"unknown\" = Not sure."
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    "db": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "sqlold",
        "sqlmid",
        "sqlnew",
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      "description": "What holds the data? \"sqlold\" = SQL Server 2012 or older; \"sqlmid\" = SQL Server 2014 or 2016; \"sqlnew\" = SQL Server 2017 or newer; \"files\" = Access, flat files, or something homegrown; \"none\" = No database — the content lives in the pages; \"unknown\" = Not sure."
    },
    "source": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "full",
        "codeonly",
        "partial",
        "none",
        "unknown"
      ],
      "description": "Do you have the source code? \"full\" = Yes — source code and some documentation; \"codeonly\" = Source code, but no documentation; \"partial\" = Some of it, we think; \"none\" = No — whatever is on the server is all there is; \"unknown\" = Not sure."
    },
    "components": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "none",
        "some",
        "many",
        "unknown"
      ],
      "description": "Are there COM objects, custom IIS modules, ISAPI filters or scheduled tasks? \"none\" = No — it is a plain site; \"some\" = One or two we know about; \"many\" = Several, or nobody is sure what they all do; \"unknown\" = Not sure."
    },
    "goal": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "asis",
        "improve",
        "modern",
        "retire",
        "unknown"
      ],
      "description": "What do you need from the site going forward? \"asis\" = Just get it off the dying server — it does its job; \"improve\" = Keep it working, but we will want to change things; \"modern\" = It needs to be a properly modern application again; \"retire\" = Honestly, it could be a simple website now; \"unknown\" = Not sure."
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    "mode": {
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      "enum": [
        "direct",
        "referral"
      ],
      "description": "Voice of the result. \"direct\" addresses the site owner; \"referral\" returns the same finding phrased as third-person talking points for an MSP or IT provider assessing a client site. Default \"direct\"."
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