Bank Resources: recovered, verified, and moved — without breaking the one thing that actually mattered.
Bank Resources is a small bank consultancy whose public site was still running on 2005-era infrastructure. This wasn't a redesign brief — it was a recovery job. The real risk wasn't how the site looked; it was that the website and the business's email lived in the same DNS zone, which meant a routine hosting change could take down the owner's inbox along with the homepage.
Same content, moved to infrastructure that won't take the business down with it.
Both captures are matched at 1440×1000 so neither viewport wins the comparison on size alone.
The real risk was infrastructure, not design.
The diagram below is a simplified illustration, not a network map — the point it makes is the one that mattered: before the move, the website and the business's email shared one DNS zone, so a change made for one could break the other. After the move, the site sits on its own modern hosting while the email path was left untouched.
One shared zone. A hosting change made for the site could take the mailbox with it.
Same zone, one record changed. The website's record now points to modern hosting; the mail record — and the zone itself — was left alone.
What actually changed, measured.
Timeline
- ~2005–2026Legacy site in continuous use, unmodernized: fixed-width tables, HTTP only.
- Sept 3, 2026Rebuilt site relaunched in production at bank-resources.com.
- Sept 8, 2026Legacy homepage captured from an archived snapshot (12 pages) for accurate before/after documentation.
What this is, and isn't, proof of.
This is launched, verified technical proof — a real production migration with before/after evidence. It is not a measured business outcome. Bank Resources' lead or inquiry volume before and after the relaunch is unmeasured, on purpose; no revenue, lead, or conversion claim is made here. Lighthouse figures referenced in the project record are single-run lab observations from August 29, 2026, not re-verified, ongoing numbers. The old site's contact form and a few legacy pages were retired as part of the move rather than modernized; nothing from the legacy site is publicly mirrored here.
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