ColdFusion, Lucee, legacy PHP and Java · 10+ years
ColdFusion legacy support services
The developer left and the app still runs your business. NorthPulse is a ColdFusion legacy support company that has maintained and modernized ColdFusion, Lucee and legacy PHP systems for over a decade. Our ColdFusion legacy support services start with a five-day health audit, then a monthly retainer or a planned migration.
$1,500 fixed health audit, 5 business days.
ColdFusion legacy support services at a glance
- Start
- $1,500 legacy health audit, fixed, 5 business days.
- Support
- Monthly retainers, $1,500–$4,000 by hours and SLA.
- Modernize
- Migrations to Lucee, ColdFusion 2025 or Laravel/Node: $5,000–$25,000 per phase, fixed.
- Stacks
- Adobe ColdFusion, Lucee (CFML), legacy PHP and Java.
The basics
What are ColdFusion legacy support services?
ColdFusion legacy support services keep an older ColdFusion or CFML application secure, running and changeable when the people who built it have gone. That means monitoring, security patches, bug fixes and small features, plus a plan for whether to maintain, modernize or replace the system.
Ours start with a legacy health audit of the codebase, server, security and dependencies, ending in a maintain / modernize / replace recommendation with costs. From there you keep us on a support retainer, or we plan a ColdFusion migration in fixed-price phases.
Why now
Adobe ColdFusion 2021 reached end of core support on November 10, 2025. Extended support ends on November 10, 2026 and does not include security patches. ColdFusion 2025 is subscription-only, from $760 per server per year.
If your app runs on ColdFusion 2018 or 2021, you are either unpatched or about to be.
Who needs ColdFusion legacy support services?
Businesses with no in-house developer
A distributor, association, membership organization or professional-services firm runs a revenue-critical web app on ColdFusion, Lucee, old PHP or Java, and nobody on staff can change it.
IT managers facing a deadline
A ColdFusion support date, a server end-of-life or a security finding needs an answer.
Owners deciding what's next
You want to know whether to maintain, modernize or replace the system, with numbers.
Teams missing the source
The last developer had the only copy of the code, credentials and deployment steps.
ColdFusion legacy support is not a fit if…
- You want a full rewrite at a fixed price, with no discovery first.
- The app handles patient health data (PHI) or card data directly.
- You need a SOC 2 report or on-site or US-person staff.
What we do
What do our ColdFusion legacy support services include?
Six services cover the life of a legacy ColdFusion application, from finding out what you have to moving it somewhere safer.
Legacy health audit
Codebase, server, security and dependencies reviewed, with a maintain / modernize / replace recommendation and costs.
Support retainer
A named lead engineer who knows your system, with a monthly bank of hours for fixes and small features.
Security patching
Security patches and dependency updates on a schedule, so the app doesn't drift out of support.
Monitoring and alerting
Uptime and error monitoring with alerts, so problems are found before your customers find them.
Lucee or ColdFusion 2025 migration
Move to Lucee, the open-source CFML engine, or to ColdFusion 2025, planned and priced per phase.
Staged modernization
A phased move to Laravel or Node, with the old system running until you sign off the cutover.
Health audit
How does the ColdFusion legacy health audit work?
The legacy health audit takes five business days and costs $1,500. It is the first step of our ColdFusion legacy support services.
| Stage | What happens | What your team does |
|---|---|---|
| Recover | Source code, credentials and deployment steps gathered into a repository you own | Share whatever access and files you have |
| Review | Codebase, server, security and dependencies examined, with missing documentation generated | Answer a few questions about how the app is used |
| Recommend | Maintain, modernize or replace: a recommendation with costs for each path | Nothing, unless we hit a blocker |
| Readout | Written report and a call to walk through the options | Decide the next step, or keep the report |
Options
Should you maintain, modernize or replace a ColdFusion app?
The health audit answers this for your system. These are the paths it chooses between, and what each one costs.
| Path | What it means | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Maintain | Support retainer: monitoring, patching, bug fixes, small features, SLA response times | $1,500–$4,000/month by hours and SLA |
| Modernize on CFML | Migration to Lucee (no license cost) or to ColdFusion 2025, planned per phase | $5,000–$25,000 per phase, fixed |
| Modernize off CFML | A staged move to Laravel or Node, with the old system running until cutover | $5,000–$25,000 per phase, fixed |
| Replace | A rebuild, only when the audit says so, delivered as fixed-price sprints | Scoped after the audit |
Pricing
How much do ColdFusion legacy support services cost?
Our ColdFusion legacy support services start with a $1,500 fixed health audit. Retainers run $1,500–$4,000 a month by hours and SLA, and migrations are fixed-price per phase.
- Legacy health audit: $1,500 fixed, 5 business days
- Support retainer: $1,500–$4,000/month
- Unused retainer hours roll over one month
- Outage response within 4 business hours; next business day for everything else
- We sign an NDA on every project
Compare every NorthPulse service on the pricing page.
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Should you start with a health audit or change the app straight away?
Changing an undocumented ColdFusion app without a map is how outages happen. The audit costs less than one bad deploy.
| Factor | Health audit first | Change it straight away |
|---|---|---|
| Upfront cost | $1,500, fixed | Unknown until something breaks |
| Source and credentials | Recovered into a repository you own | Still on one person's machine |
| Security exposure | Known and ranked | Found by someone else |
| Migration choice | Lucee, ColdFusion 2025 or Laravel/Node, costed | Picked by habit or by a vendor |
| Downtime risk | Tested rollback; old system runs until cutover | Live changes on a fragile system |
| What you keep | A report and a plan, whoever does the work | Whatever was changed |
Next steps
What happens after the ColdFusion health audit?
You choose. The report is yours, and every path is priced in it.
Keep the report
Use the recommendation and costs with your own team or any vendor.
Support retainer
We keep the app patched, monitored and moving for $1,500–$4,000 a month, with a named lead.
Planned migration
We move it to Lucee, ColdFusion 2025 or Laravel/Node in fixed-price phases. Need a ColdFusion developer full-time instead?
Why choose us
Why choose NorthPulse as your ColdFusion legacy support company?
A good ColdFusion legacy support company has kept apps like yours running before, and can show you the plan. Here is how our ColdFusion legacy support services work. See our security practices and case studies.
10+ years with CFML
We have maintained and modernized ColdFusion, Lucee and legacy PHP systems for over a decade.
A named lead engineer
One lead who knows your system, not whoever is free that week.
No surprise downtime
Nothing changes in production without a tested rollback. Migrations run alongside the old system.
Your code, recovered
Source, credentials and deployment steps go into a repository you own, documented.
AI that reads old code
Agents document a codebase nobody remembers and draft refactors; a senior engineer reviews every line.
Fixed prices per phase
Audits and migration phases are fixed-price, so you can budget the whole move.
FAQ
ColdFusion legacy support services FAQ
Quick answers to what teams ask before they book ColdFusion legacy support services. Not on ColdFusion? See code audit services.
How much do ColdFusion legacy support services cost?
Our ColdFusion legacy support services start with a $1,500 fixed health audit. Support retainers cost $1,500–$4,000 a month, and migrations are $5,000–$25,000 per phase, fixed.
Is ColdFusion 2021 still supported?
Adobe ended core support for ColdFusion 2021 on November 10, 2025, and extended support, which does not include security patches, runs to November 10, 2026. ColdFusion 2025 is subscription-only.
Do we have to migrate off ColdFusion?
Not necessarily. Lucee is an open-source CFML engine that removes the license cost; many apps run on it for years. The audit tells you whether that is enough.
Can you migrate ColdFusion to Lucee?
Yes. A Lucee migration is planned and priced per phase, with the old server kept running until you sign off the cutover.
Our last developer had the only copy of everything.
That's common. The audit starts with recovering source, credentials and deployment steps into a repository you own.
We can't afford downtime.
Nothing changes in production without a tested rollback. Migrations run alongside the old system until you sign off the cutover.
Can we hire a ColdFusion developer full-time?
Yes. Our staff augmentation service places senior engineers with ColdFusion experience in your team, month to month.
Do you support legacy PHP and Java as well?
Yes. The same audit, retainer and migration options apply to legacy PHP and Java systems.
How do I choose a ColdFusion legacy support company?
Ask how long they have worked with CFML, whether you get a named lead, how they recover missing source and how they avoid downtime during a migration.
Related services
Where can ColdFusion legacy support lead?
Once the app is safe, the same team can staff it, audit the rest of your code or rebuild parts of it.
Staff augmentation services
A senior ColdFusion engineer inside your team, month to month.
Start a two-week pilotCode audit services
Audit the PHP, Java or Node systems around your ColdFusion app.
Request an auditProduct development services
Rebuild a module as a fixed-price sprint when the audit says it's time.
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