Nexcess Knowledge Base

How do you restrict access to your development or staging website created for testing purposes? The answer is password protection — used as a way to block a site or unblock a site for visitors.

Using the Nexcess Client Portal, logging into the WordPress Admin Panel is a straightforward process for managing your site. It can be done from the Site Dashboard for all web hosting plans with us.

Nexcess allows customers to leverage vanity subdomains for website testing purposes. So, vanity domains within Nexcess hosting plans are actually temporary subdomains under the primary domain.

Learn how to manage web hosting environments with regard to staging and development areas at Nexcess. Build and test features/settings on staging and dev with no impact to your production website.

Learn how to create and edit DNS Zones in the Nexcess Client Portal. We will also give a brief overview of how DNS works, and the DNS records you will frequently use.

Let's take inventory of the advantages of Nexcess hosting, where your site will have more tools, addons, and resources. Then, let's learn how to migrate your site from Flywheel hosting to Nexcess.

Transferring code from localhost to a live website is similar to migrating a website from one server to another. Move WordPress local development to Nexcess hosting using this guide.

Nexcess has been on the front line of WooCommerce fraud prevention for years. Learn what common security threats to look out for and how to protect your WooCommerce website from fraudulent activity.

We’ve made it easy for you to set up a Nexcess Cloud account. Before we get to the steps involved with setting up web hosting in the cloud, let’s find out what cloud technology is all about.

Let's examine the history of MySQL and MariaDB and see how they compare — MySQL vs. MariaDB — and the performance advantages behind why the Nexcess application stack is built using MariaDB.