Nexcess Knowledge Base

When you upgrade from a multi-tenant plan to a single-tenant plan, you must migrate your data to a new server — as is the case of going from ≤M to ≥L within your Nexcess website hosting plans.

Update PHP versions from the Nexcess Client Portal to leverage major performance and security improvements for your website. Learn everything you need to know.

Site backups are important! Every Nexcess web hosting plan comes with free daily courtesy backups that are automatically created and kept for 30 days on a remote backup server.

Object caching can improve database query performance both on the front end of your site and in wp-admin. We automatically install the Object Cache Pro plugin to do this.

Setting up Validar for WooCommerce is very quick and painless if you are using Managed WordPress or Managed WooCommerce. You can install and activate the Validar plugin using the Nexcess Installer.

Using the Plugins > Updates Available option in wp-admin, the auto-update feature in the WordPress core, or iThemes Sync (when managing manage multiple sites) are all ways to keep plugins updated.