Nexcess Knowledge Base

Various methods of hardening your Magento store’s security, though many of these apply to any content management system (CMS).

How Nexcess clients on physical (non-cloud) clients can create Magento 2 development (dev) sites.

Learn how to issue a reindex to optimize performance in Magento 1 from the admin panel or command line, which requires SSH access and some familiarity with the command line interface (CLI).

Learn how to configure your Magento 2 store to use SSL certificates using either the Magento 2 Dashboard or SSH.

Learn how to configure Magento 2 cron jobs to initiate tasks such as reindexing, generating sitemaps, applying price rules, and other critical activities at a specified time or date interval.

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is an XML-based messaging protocol allowing programs to communicate between different operating systems over a network. Nexcess servers support SOAP.

Learn how to configure Magmi in a way that functions with our security policy at Nexcess.

Learn how to install Magento Community Edition v1.8 and later. For Nexcess clients, this is not the preferred method. We instead recommend choosing an auto-install option when selecting your service.

How to enable and interpret Magento 1’s profiler feature to assist with development.

How to disable caching in Magento 1 for development purposes.