Nexcess Knowledge Base

Learn about Magento, a popular ecommerce platform.

How Nexcess Classic (non-Cloud) clients can create development (dev) sites for Magento 1.

How to flush the Magento 1.x and Magento 2 cache with either the Magento admin interface or SSH.

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

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 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.

Learn how to create manual backups as well as schedule regular backups of your store.