Nexcess Knowledge Base

Explore the two Sylius hosting setup approaches at Nexcess of leveraging the flexible cloud platform or the non-cloud configuration via traditional "Nexcess Classic" hosting.

Before implementing any WordPress plugin changes, use a smart website comparison tool to visually show you how the future website will appear in comparison to the existing one.

Advanced Web Statistics (AWStats) — available via the Analytics tab in the Nexcess Client Portal — is a tool that helps you maintain and track resource usage on your websites using graphs and tables.

Nexcess WordPress setup using the Nexcess Installer plugin gives you access to a plethora of free plugins for optimizing WordPress/WooCommerce for performance, security, SEO, ecommerce, and more.

Using FTPS, you can connect and transfer files securely between your Nexcess website host and your PC. This option is available through the most popular FTP clients, such as FileZilla and Cyberduck.

Transfer data securely between your Nexcess web hosting account and a local device via SFTP or FTPS. Let's compare and contrast SFTP vs. FTPS. Then, let's see how to use the FileZilla FTPS client.

Scheduling cron jobs in Linux allows you to automate website administration tasks by choosing when the server does a specific action. Let's go over how Nexcess hosting clients can schedule cron jobs.

Learn how to configure your Magento store to use a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate, which allows your site to exchange encrypted information with web users.

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.

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.