From Self-Hosted to Vendor Supported: A Practical Guide to Migrating Your LMS With Confidence

Self-hosted LMS environments can feel like the “safe” choice until maintenance, security patching, and downtime start stealing time from your learning strategy. This practical guide explains why more organizations are moving to hosted, open-source platforms and how to migrate without losing control, flexibility, or trust.

Inside, you’ll get a clear, step-by-step roadmap for evaluating your current LMS, defining success criteria, choosing the right partner, and executing a migration that minimizes disruption for learners, instructors, and administrators. You’ll also learn how cloud-hosted open-source solutions reduce hidden costs, improve security and reliability, and help learning teams scale with confidence.