Nexcess Knowledge Base

Discover what memcached is and how it can accelerate your applications. Optimize your website's performance with this free, open source caching system.

How WordPress administrators can customize their website with a favicon.

Learn how to optimize JPEGs, PNGs, and GIFs from the CLI using jpegoptim, OptiPNG, and Gifsicle — all Nexcess servers have the jpegoptim, OptiPNG, and Gifsicle utilities installed.

Learn more about the Apache .htpasswd file. This article provides the definition and purpose of the .htpasswd file and how it facilitates basic access authentication on the server.

Learn how to configure the Nexcess CDN with WordPress and W3 Total Cache plugin.

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

Learn how to set the maximum execution time using your PHP script's execution time limit — overriding the php.ini timeout set with the max_execution_time variable.

How to use SiteWorx to create, modify, and delete email aliases for your Nexcess account.

SSL certificates are digital certificates that authenticate your website’s identity and allow for secure transmission of sensitive information.

Where to find and how to change your DNS records from your Nexcess Client Portal.