Nexcess Knowledge Base

Using Nexcess Global DNS or your site’s DNS CNAME Target provides your site with many advantages, such as allowing our team to seamlessly modify what IP address your site is pointing to.

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.

Once your site is good to go after design and testing phases are done, you can take your WordPress site live by following the steps provided in this article for how to make a WordPress site live.

As of 08.23.2022 @ 10 PM ET, any new website on a Nexcess Plan will be given a CNAME Target domain and subdomain from *.nxcli.io instead of *.nxcli.net.

In order for your site to go live on your plan, you will need to first either use the Nexcess nameservers (DNS entries) or you will need to edit the CNAME record for your site domain.

Using our Nexcess nameservers not only improves load time, but it also provides a seamless transition during the migration process — your site could load up to one second faster.

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

Overview of DNS propagation and how to use the Nexcess Global DNS checker to verify propagation of your recently migrated site.

Understand what WHOIS is and why it's important in web hosting. Learn how to perform a WHOIS search.