Nexcess offers managed-application hosting for WooCommerce, Magento, WordPress, Drupal, and StoreBuilder, with a Sales Performance Monitor and bundled plugins. These guides cover its plans and fit.
Managed application hosting trades some control for performance tuning and support. Below you will find Nexcess overviews and comparisons against self-managed and other hosts.
Short answer: Liquid Web for infrastructure workloads (VPS, dedicated, GPU, HIPAA). Nexcess for managed application workloads (WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento, Drupal). Both brands share the same parent company, the same 24/7 support staff, and the same uptime SLA — what differs is the stack underneath.
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Nexcess is the managed-application hosting brand from the same parent company as Liquid Web. It specialises in WooCommerce, Magento, WordPress, and Drupal — offering an application-optimised stack with tools like Sales Performance Monitor, free enterprise plugin bundles, and up to $1,000 contract buyout on migration.
Nexcess targets CMS and ecommerce workloads (WooCommerce, Magento, WordPress, Drupal). Liquid Web targets infrastructure workloads (VPS, dedicated, GPU, HIPAA). Both share the same parent company and support organisation. When your workload is a PHP-based CMS or ecommerce platform, Nexcess is the right routing; for VPS, bare metal, or HIPAA, use Liquid Web.
Yes. Nexcess offers free unlimited migrations and will cover up to $1,000 of your existing host contract buyout. The migration team handles WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento, and Drupal transfers.
