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.

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.

Let's walk through the various aspects of adding a secondary domain in the Nexcess Client Portal — the admin panel for managing your hosting plans and sites with Nexcess.

Let's explore using the "Stencil Feature" in the Nexcess Client Portal — with the Stencil functionality describing a copy website tool that lets you save time and energy generating a new site.

Development and staging environments serve as unique tiers of test environments for admins to verify that a site is working as expected before it goes live.

Read our managed application support documentation. We offer support for various PHP-based applications, including managed WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento, and more.