Download websites that use Nexcess

Hosting is one of the few things behind a web page that somebody is definitely paying for. A JavaScript library can be a copied snippet and an analytics tag can be a leftover, but a managed host is an invoice with a renewal date, which is why hosting fingerprints behave more like a customer list than like a technology profile.

Nexcess sells managed hosting built around content management and commerce platforms, and the vendor of record in our data is Liquid Web, the company that owns it. The service dates to 2000 and the license field reads Proprietary, though for hosting that field says very little. What a customer buys is the operation of somebody else's servers, not a copy of software they could install elsewhere, and the commercial relationship is the fact worth having.

Detection is inferential and deliberately conservative. A host reveals itself through response headers, control panel artifacts, name server records and default pages, and every one of those can be stripped by a proxy or CDN sitting in front of the origin. As of October 2026 we match Nexcess on 214 sites. Sites that put an edge layer in front of their origin fall out of the count, so the matched set leans toward deployments that never added one, and that bias belongs in any conclusion you draw about size.

The commercial reading is straightforward. Every matched domain is a business with a known platform, a known price bracket and a contract that eventually comes up for renewal, which is why competing hosts run migration campaigns against exactly this kind of list. Plugin, theme and performance vendors use it differently, as a way to reach an audience already committed to a particular stack. Researchers use it to measure hosting concentration, which is the starting point for any argument about how much of a national web sits on one provider.

None of those uses survives being done one domain at a time. A lookup tells you where a single site is hosted, which is useful exactly once. The downloadable set gives every host we matched with the platform, country and technology columns beside it, so the campaign, the market estimate or the concentration study can be built from a file rather than from a crawl you have to run yourself.