Five Reasons to Migrate and Upgrade from Joomla 1.5
Security: Joomla 1.5 websites have the potential to invite hackers in and no longer receives support and updates.
Migrating from Joomla 1.5 to 2.5 or 3.0 is vital to keep hackers out, reduce downtime and enhance website security.
Also, most of the hosting providers use PHP Web Development. Joomla 3 needs to run on a PHP 5.3 server ensuring that the server environment is more up to date for added security.
Extensions
Extensions are no longer developed for Joomla 1.5 so indirectly your website is going out of date. Consider the migration a time to refresh and revamp your site. As a matter of fact support for Joomla 1.5 extensions is no longer available which can result in vulnerable or unstable extensions on your site.
One-Click Updates: Joomla has incorporated a simple one click upgrade feature for future updates after migration from 1.5 to 2.5 or late. Once you've done the hard work now, end result should be easy street and simple to do.
Improved Search Engine Optimization: With Joomla’s improved SEO, get higher search results in Google. New search capabilities have been added to Joomla which make is so much better than Joomla 1.5. Its internal search is very much improved that makes it possible to search for content within the site.
Support: With the guarantee of Joomla 2.5 as a long-term support release the rest will be assured from official Joomla support until 2014. Before picking up a Joomla 1.5, bear in mind that more and more resources and support tools for Joomla 1.5 are becoming obsolete making supporting them even harder.
If you are still looking for the question, when? No doubt , “NOW” is the right time.










