Case Study: WordPress Hosting Migration for Taymore Investments
Moving an inherited property-investment website to Cloudways, preserving its enquiry route and adding safeguards against form abuse.
Business Location:
Glasgow, Scotland
Website Platform:
WordPress
About The Business
Property Investment
Taymore Investments is a Glasgow-based property-investment business within the Taymore group. Its website introduces services including property advice, project management, portfolio building and sourcing, and gives prospective clients a route to discuss their plans. The engagement concerned the website's technical operation, not a new visual identity or redesign.
The Challenges The Business Faced
The obstacles that Modemkiller would help overcome:
Taymore Investments already had a WordPress website built by another agency. Repeated DDoS and malicious form-submission activity made its hosting and email allowance a concern. The task was to migrate the site without disrupting its established presentation or enquiries, then put practical controls around incoming traffic and form-generated email. This was a hosting and operational assignment, not a redesign.
Engagement Scope & Project Goals
Inherited WordPress migration, Cloudways hosting, Cloudflare routing and form-email safeguards
Migrate the inherited WordPress site to Cloudways
Preserve the site's existing pages, information and enquiry route.
Route website traffic through Cloudflare and limit SMTP sending.
Keep the form working and its notifications reaching the client.
Give the Taymore team a practical point of contact.
Continue reviewing and responding to malicious activity.
Key Impacts & Successes
Clean Migration & No Down-time.
Taymore Investments' inherited WordPress site remains live after its January 2025 migration to Cloudways. Its contact form works and email notifications reach the client. Modemkiller also put limits on form-generated SMTP volume and routed website traffic through Cloudflare as part of the response to hostile activity. Together, these measures preserved the enquiry route and established a more manageable operating base.
WordPress site live on Cloudways
Contact enquiries reach the client
Form-email sending capped
Website traffic proxied through Cloudflare
Project Outcomes
Working Enquiries, with More Control Behind the Scenes
Featured Capabilities
The Work Behind the Hosting Transition
Project Progression
From Agency Handover to Managed WordPress Hosting
Completed in January 2025, this was not a rebuild. Modemkiller moved the existing WordPress site to Cloudways, kept its enquiry route functioning and introduced safeguards around website traffic and form-generated email.
Stage Tasks & Responsibilities
Implementation Rationale
Keeping the Existing Site While Changing The Foundation
The site remained on WordPress because of existing plugin licencing commitments. Cloudways became its hosting environment, and both the root and www website records are proxied through Cloudflare in response to hostile traffic. SMTP sending limits addressed the separate risk of malicious form use consuming the server's email allowance. The familiar front end and functioning client notifications were retained.
The Role of Artificial Intelligence
Practical Infrastructure Work That's Human-Led.
Hands-on migration and operational judgment.
Modemkiller assessed the inherited WordPress setup, managed the hosting transfer and selected proportionate controls around website traffic and form-generated email. This case study attributes the work to those practical decisions rather than making an unsupported claim about AI-led delivery.
