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title: "Nexcess (now Liquid Web) Plans, Pricing & Renewal Costs (2026) | Digital Hosting"
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description: "Nexcess (now Liquid Web) plans and pricing — from $9/mo (Essentials, monthly billing (1 site, 50k visits, 15 GB, 2 TB bandwidth)) (verified)."
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Fig. 01 · Provider Brief

# Nexcess (now Liquid Web)

WooCommerce and high-traffic WordPress stores

Rated 4.4 / 5

See current pricing (https://www.nexcess.net/plans/wordpress-pricing/)Non-affiliate recommendation

Prices verified: September 2026 · Researched by W. Miller (https://digitalhosting.com/about#authors) and the Digital Hosting editorial team — how we review providers (https://digitalhosting.com/how-we-test)

Disclosure: No link on this page earns us a commission. Where we do have a paid link elsewhere on the site, the page says so.

Our take

Nexcess has been folded into Liquid Web ('Liquid Web by Nexcess' — nexcess.net now redirects there). The WooCommerce-tuned platform lives on under the new brand, with a cheaper Essentials/Pro/Elite lineup than the old Spark plans.

Best for

Managed WooCommerce

Starting price

from $9/mo Essentials, monthly billing (1 site, 50k visits, 15 GB, 2 TB bandwidth) Verified September 2026 Nexcess has been folded into Liquid Web ('Liquid Web by Nexcess' — nexcess.net now redirects there); the old Spark lineup is gone. Annual billing is 10% off ($8.10/mo). Verified in a real browser session (vendor blocks crawlers). Promos as low as $4/mo appear on Liquid Web's hosting-services page.

Ease of use

Ease of use: 4 of 5

Performance

Performance: 5 of 5

Support

Support: 4 of 5

Free migration

Included

Email included

Included

Domain included

Not included

## Pros

- Auto-scaling for traffic spikes
- WooCommerce-specific performance tuning
- New lineup is cheaper than the old Spark plans ($9/mo entry)

## Cons

- Standalone Nexcess brand is gone — plans, docs, and billing now live at liquidweb.com
- Entry tier caps at 1 site / 50k visits

Testing status: we haven't load-tested Nexcess (now Liquid Web) ourselves yet. This profile is built from vendor documentation, published plan specs and SLAs, and long-running community reports — and the pricing above is verified on the vendor's site, not copied from marketing. See how we test (https://digitalhosting.com/how-we-test) for exactly what that means.

## If Nexcess (now Liquid Web) isn't right

### Alternatives to consider

- Hostinger (https://digitalhosting.com/providers/hostinger) — budget-friendly first sites
- Cloudways (https://digitalhosting.com/providers/cloudways) — managed cloud for growing sites

## Where Nexcess (now Liquid Web) fits

Compare Nexcess (now Liquid Web) alongside other picks in the categories it competes in:

- WordPress Hosting →: https://digitalhosting.com/best-wordpress-hosting

Ready to try Nexcess (now Liquid Web)?

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