Nexcess Knowledge Base

You know your website the best, so knowing how to perform a WordPress migration manually can save you time and money by moving a WordPress site to a new server yourself.

Site backups are important! Every Nexcess web hosting plan comes with free daily courtesy backups that are automatically created and kept for 30 days on a remote backup server.

Nexcess Cloud Plans allow manual creation of full account backups to be kept locally on the server for quick accessibility or stored elsewhere for additional security

How to set up Windows Secure Copy (WinSCP) to securely copy files to and from your Nexcess hosting account. WinSCP allows you to securely upload and download files to and from your Nexcess server.

Learn how Nexcess clients on physical (non-cloud) servers can restore a partial backup file using SiteWorx.

Learn how Nexcess clients on physical (non-cloud) clients can use SiteWorx to whitelist an IP address.

Learn how Nexcess clients on physical (non-cloud) servers can schedule automatic backups for their service using SiteWorx.

Learn how Nexcess clients on physical (non-cloud) servers perform a one-time backup of hosting account files and data using SiteWorx.

Although at Nexcess we provide 30-day automatic backups for our clients, we recommend supplementing these with your own backups.