Southfield, MI, January 22, 2014 – Nexcess, a leading provider of Magento eCommerce hosting and Magento Platinum Hosting Partner, has announced that its powerful Magento server cluster plans will benefit from an substantial hardware upgrade. Responsiveness is of particular importance to eCommerce retailers, because faster sites have proven to provide increased sales.

Nexcess’ Magento server clusters are designed to provide the highly optimized and responsive hosting solution required by high-traffic eCommerce stores. As part of the company’s ongoing effort to ensure that eCommerce clients are able to leverage the performance and reliability of the most up-to-date server technology, the company has significantly upgraded the hardware on its Magento MCE-SIP clusters. Read more

Southfield, MI, December 26, 2013 – Nexcess, a provider of optimized WordPress, Magento, and ExpressionEngine hosting, has announced the introduction of a new referral program that will return 75% of a plan’s monthly recurring value. The reimagined Nexcess web hosting affiliate program allows partners to reap unbeatable benefits from sales of Nexcess’ innovative hosting products.  Possible one-time payouts now range from $19 for a basic optimized Magento hosting referral, upwards to $3,150 and beyond for an enterprise managed server cluster referral.

“Most hosting affiliate payouts don’t scale to cover the full spectrum of professional grade hosting solutions,” commented Chris Wells, President and CEO of Nexcess, “Rather than a flat payout rate for a single vanilla hosting package, we wanted our referral program to reflect one of our companies key philosophies: one size does not fit all.  Under the new Nexcess affiliate program, members will be rewarded relative to the gravity of the referrals that they achieve.” Read more

Southfield, MI, November 13, 2013 – Nexcess, a leading provider of WordPress, Magento, and ExpressionEngine hosting, today announced it ranked 245 on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500(TM), a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America. Nexcess grew 388 percent during this period.

Nexcess’ exemplary growth during a period of widespread economic distress is a strong indication of the strength of the company’s core commitment to providing outstanding no-compromise hosting solutions, particularly for the eCommerce sector. Read more

Southfield, MI, October 14, 2013 – Nexcess, the exclusive Enterprise Hosting Partner of EllisLab, the developers of ExpressionEngine, has released a comprehensive optimization guide for the popular content management system.

While ExpressionEngine performs very well out of the box, sites under constant or intermittent heavy load are subject to a number of issues that need to be addressed in order for them to provide an optimal experience for their users, and an ideal configuration can translate into performance enhancements measured in multiples. To develop their recommendations, Nexcess has tested an ExpressionEngine installation running on one of its EEP-400 ExpressionEngine-optimized servers using the Siege HTTP load-testing and benchmarking utility.

The resulting white paper is titled ExpressionEngine, Caching, and Best Practices For Performance and leverages Nexcess’ experience of hosting high-traffic enterprise sites built with ExpressionEngine. Based on extensive testing, the white paper thoroughly addresses issues faced by ExpressionEngine sites that experience high numbers of concurrent users, providing a set of best practices for using ExpressionEngine’s built-in caching capabilities as well as integration with external applications like Redis and Memcached. The white paper also discusses optimal caching strategies for ExpressionEngine clusters. Read more

Southfield, MI October 09, 2013 – Nexcess, a leading provider of optimized Magento hosting and a Magento Platinum Hosting Partner, is thrilled to announce that they will be a Platinum Sponsor for this year’s MagentoLive UK conference in partnership with PayPal and eBay. The event will take place at etc.venues’ state of the art St. Paul’s conference center in London on Tuesday, October 22nd.

MagentoLive UK is Britain’s largest Magento conference and hosts attendees and speakers from the UK, Europe, and the US. The conference is an unmissable opportunity to meet with and hear eCommerce experts, Magento hosting specialists, developers, and members of the Magento community.

Nexcess CEO Chris Wells will be in attendance to deliver a talk addressing site performance, its relationship to eCommerce sales, and how Nexcess have optimized their Magento hosting platform to help eCommerce retailers maximize sales. Read more

Southfield, MI, October 7, 2013 – Nexcess, a provider of managed WordPress and Magento hosting, has announced its second successful SSAE-16 Type 2 examination within the scope of Data Center and Web Hosting Services. The examination was provided by Brightline CPAs & Associates, Inc., who has reaffirmed the hosting provider’s good standing following a previous examination which took place between August 1, 2011 and January 31, 2012.

Nexcess’ SOC 1 (Service Organization Controls Report) Type 2 examination provides clients with continued reassurance that essential controls for critical aspects of business operations like financial reporting are in place and meet the highest standards, as set forth by the AICPA. SSAE-16 compliant hosting is particularly important for Nexcess as a significant volume of their business concerns eCommerce and other enterprise hosting services.

The examination by a qualified 3rd party CPA is intended to give Nexcess service users complete confidence that rigorous and reliable controls are in place and have been scrutinized and verified by outside experts. Read more

Southfield, MI, September 16, 2013 – Nexcess, the leader in Magento, WordPress, and ExpressionEngine hosting, is to be included in the 2013 Inc. 5000 list of the fastest growing businesses in the United States for the fourth consecutive year. Nexcess is ranked 1636 in the 2013 Inc. 5000, and is 38th in the telecommunications category.

Inc., the popular business magazine and conference organizer, produces an annual list of the best performing privately owned businesses in the nation. Inclusion in the list requires sustained and consistent growth over the four years preceding publication of each list. Given the level of competition found in most industries, a strong showing in the list of America’s top performing businesses is a powerful indication of the long-term health of a company.

Nexcess has grown consistently since its foundation more than a decade ago, expanding from a small garage operation to one of the leading international providers of optimized eCommerce and CMS hosting. Nexcess currently operates out of its own Michigan-based data centers in the US and also offers a full range of premium hosting services in the UK and Australia. Read more

Southfield, MI, September 4, 2013 – Nexcess, the exclusive, official Enterprise Hosting Partner of EllisLab’s ExpressionEngine, have announced that they will be the main sponsor for this year’s ExpressionEngine Conference in Portland, Oregon.

ExpressionEngine is an advanced PHP-based content management system from EllisLab that provides extraordinary levels of flexibility for online publishers. ExpressionEngine is a modern CMS designed to be easy-to-use while maintaining the levels of performance and power required by developers and designers. Its powerful template engine and wide variety of add-on modules and plugins provide endless customizability without the excessive complexity of less modern content management systems.

This year’s ExpressionEngine Conference will be the most exciting yet, with over 30 speakers and nearly 50 presentations from ExpressionEngine professionals and enthusiasts. Among the highlights will be a 50-minute presentation on the 15th from Nexcess CEO Chris Wells, titled “ExpressionEngine Performance & Optimization – Laying a Solid Foundation”. Other highlights from the conference include opening remarks from EllisLab’s Derek Jones, a talk on ExpressionEngine design patterns by Moresoda’s Christopher Imrie, and an in-depth look at ExpressionEngine and security from Eric Lamb of Mithra62. Read more