Nexcess Knowledge Base

Learn how to log into the WordPress Admin Panel in three simple steps with Nexcess. Optimize your website by managing all aspects of web hosting.

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.

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.

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.

This article will give you an overview of Nexcesss website backups, the Nexcess data backup policy, and how to create a manual backup from the Nexcess Client Portal in an ad hoc fashion.

In this Nexcess Knowledge Base article focused on security, you will learn how to send secure data to the Nexcess Support Team — ensuring the safe sharing of sensitive hosting account information.

SSH (Secure Shell) and SSH FTP (SFTP) access via command line is available in Managed WordPress and Managed WooCommerce plans and credentials are found within each site's management page.

A pointer domain — or a parked domain — allows you to have multiple domain names display the content of your site. Let's review pointer domains and adding them for a Nexcess-hosted site.

At Nexcess, our hosting plans provide the WordPress CDN Enabler plugin by KeyCDN to facilitate the setup required to turn on your CDN in the context of your Nexcess-hosted website.