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Choosing the right infrastructure is critical to the success of your online presence. Whether you are running a single high-traffic website, training complex AI models, or managing enterprise-level applications, you need hosting that balances high performance, flexibility, and absolute reliability.

Liquid Web offers a robust portfolio of managed and self-managed hosting solutions designed to handle the complexities of server management so you can focus on your core business. From the exclusive power of Bare Metal and Dedicated Servers to the highly scalable environments of Cloud VPS and VMware, this collection of articles serves as your central resource for understanding, provisioning, and optimizing your Liquid Web infrastructure.

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This collection of articles serves as your central resource for understanding and ordering Liquid Web Hosting Services.

Website backups and the Nexcess data backup policy

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.
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What is a Failover? Understanding Acronis Disaster Recovery

Discover what a failover is and how it works. Learn how Acronis Disaster Recovery keeps your business online during critical server outages.
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What is a VMware Template?

Learn what a VMware template is, when you should use one, and how to use the Clone to Template or Convert to Template methods.
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What is Acronis Disaster Recovery for Nexcess Cloud?

Discover how Acronis Disaster Recovery protects your Nexcess virtual machines. Learn about continuous backups, automated failover, and data protection.
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What is Global Private Fabric?

Learn about the Global Private Fabric (GPF). Securely link Bare Metal and Cloud servers globally on one private network, enabling hybrid cloud and VPNs.
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What is Liquid Web Object Storage?

Cloud Object Storage, like Amazon S3, stores and serves files via HTTP/HTTPS in buckets with directories, supporting various file types.
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What is Nexcess Cloud auto scaling?

Cloud auto scaling allows your website to instantly handle more concurrent visitors. At Nexcess, our “autoscaled PHP workers” fortify site resources when there are spikes in web traffic.
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What is the PHP-FPM limit (max_children)?

The PHP FastCGI Process Manager (PHP-FPM) limit, often referred to as max_children, refers to the setting for the maximum number of concurrent PHP-FPM processes allowed to run on a web server.
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