Nexcess and Liquid Web have announced their decision to merge into a single brand, marking a strategic web hosting services consolidation. This merger will combine Nexcess’s deep expertise in managed hosting for WordPress, WooCommerce, and Magento with Liquid Web’s managed cloud hosting solutions, setting the stage for a new era of enhanced managed web hosting offerings.
Founded in 2000, Nexcess has carved out a niche for itself by providing specialized managed hosting services optimized for popular content management and ecommerce platforms. For over two decades, Nexcess has been at the forefront of offering high-performance cloud solutions, meticulously designed to optimize and enhance WordPress, WooCommerce, and Magento sites and stores. As part of the Liquid Web family, Nexcess has been instrumental in supporting ecommerce sites globally.
The integration, set to commence next quarter, aims to create a powerhouse brand with over 50 years of collective experience in the managed hosting domain. By the second quarter of 2024, the official process of transitioning the Nexcess activities into the Liquid Web brand is expected to be completed. This schedule would make sure that Nexcess’s services will integrate and transfer smoothly.
The unified brand will leverage Liquid Web’s managed hosting platforms combined with Nexcess’s ecommerce expertise to offer a broader range of web hosting services, thereby aiming at ensuring continuous innovation in hosting technologies.
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Nexcess became part of the ‘Liquid Family of Brands’ in September 2019. Carrie Wheeler, President of Liquid Web, stated the following at the time, “Nexcess has built a very successful business in Application hosting with a strong brand and a solid go-to-market strategy. We looked for Nexcess because we knew that by combining their industry-leading Managed Magento platform with Liquid Web’s expertise in WooCommerce and WordPress, we could combine our team, products, services, and capabilities to provide SMBs and the agencies, designers, and developers who work with them with the best hosting experience possible.”
Carrie Wheeler now expressed enthusiasm for merging the Nexcess brand into the Liquid Web brand, emphasizing the company’s longstanding commitment to supporting businesses in their online growth endeavors. “We’re thrilled for this next chapter of Nexcess and Liquid Web. Bringing our brands together will help us continue our dedication to high-quality service and best-in-class hosting. Enabling and empowering our customers’ digital success remains our top priority.”
For existing customers of Nexcess and Liquid Web, the transition would promise to be seamless, with no disruption in the service levels they have come to expect, the companies stated.
With over 500,000 sites under administration and over 187,000 paying clients as well as 2.5 million freemium software users across 150 countries, the Liquid Web Family of Brands jointly oversees 10 worldwide data centers.
