Nexcess Partners with Monarx to Strengthen Server and Website Security Across Nexcess and Liquid Web Hosting Services

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Monarx, a provider of AI-first server security, today announced a partnership with Nexcess to strengthen malware protection across its hosting environments. Through a phased rollout of Monarx’s detection and automated remediation technology, Nexcess is enhancing its approach to security, helping protect customer websites and applications while reducing the time and effort required to identify and address emerging threats.

Nexcess provides specialty cloud solutions for companies that need control over their cloud environments. With more than two decades of hosting experience, Nexcess helps businesses, developers, and agencies build and manage websites, applications, and online stores. Together with its sub-brands Liquid Web and Servers.com, Nexcess combines performance-focused infrastructure with managed services and technical expertise to help businesses grow.

For businesses that depend on their websites and applications, a malware infection can mean more than a security incident. It can disrupt operations, affect customer trust, and pull valuable time and resources away from running the business. Keeping these environments secure has become increasingly challenging. Malware is growing more sophisticated, attackers are finding new ways to hide malicious code, and AI-generated threats are making traditional signature-based detection less reliable. Businesses need protection that can detect and remove threats quickly without introducing performance issues or adding more manual work for their teams.

Nexcess selected Monarx to strengthen its existing security capabilities with behavior-based malware detection, automated remediation, and lightweight protection designed for large hosting environments. The partnership will help Nexcess identify threats that traditional scanners may miss and address infections before they become larger problems for customers, helping protect business continuity and reduce the burden of managing security threats.

“Security is a core part of the hosting experience we provide, especially for customers whose businesses depend on their websites and online stores,” said Richard Yew, Vice President of Product Management at Nexcess. “We chose Monarx because it combines proactive threat detection, automated remediation and real-time protection with the performance efficiency we need across our infrastructure. This partnership helps us strengthen protection behind the scenes, so our customers can focus on running their businesses without adding complexity to how they manage their sites.”

Stronger Protection Without Compromising Performance

Monarx was built specifically for hosting providers, combining malware detection, automated remediation, and real-time threat protection in a lightweight solution that can operate across large server fleets.

As Nexcess expands its deployment, the partnership brings several capabilities to its hosting services, designed to strengthen security while maintaining the performance and reliability customers depend on:

• Behavior-based malware detection: Identifies malicious activity and previously unseen threats that traditional signature-based scanners may miss.
• Automated malware remediation: Removes malicious files and cleans infected code, reducing manual intervention.
• Lightweight protection: Designed to minimize resource consumption and preserve server performance.
• Runtime protection: Monarx ThreatShield provides an additional layer of protection against active attacks as they happen, where deployed.
• Shared threat intelligence: New threats detected across the Monarx network inform protection across other servers, helping providers respond to emerging campaigns faster.

For Nexcess, the partnership adds another layer of security to its managed hosting services while reducing the operational effort required to detect and remediate malware across its environments. For customers, this means stronger protection with less disruption and complexity, allowing them to focus on their businesses.

“By rolling out Monarx, Nexcess is demonstrating its commitment to providing the best security for its customers,” said Luke Langford, CEO of Monarx. “We find more malware, we make fewer mistakes, we cause fewer issues, and we’re able to do so with a much lighter footprint on our partners’ resources, all of which will help ensure that Nexcess customers get market-leading security and performance.”

The initial rollout is underway, with further deployment planned across Nexcess and Liquid Web infrastructure. Monarx and Nexcess expect to share additional results and updates as the partnership progresses.

About Monarx

Monarx is a cybersecurity company built for web hosting providers. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, Monarx uses AI-first, behavior-based detection to find and remove malware and stop attacks in real time. To date, Monarx has protected over one million servers worldwide. Hosting providers including Hosting.com, Hostinger, and InMotion Hosting rely on Monarx to protect their customers.

Learn more at monarx.com.

About Nexcess

Nexcess provides specialty cloud solutions for companies who need control over their cloud environments. Our mission is to simplify the experience, lower risk, and enable performance and scalability. We leverage our expertise and Nexcess owned portfolio of compute, cloud services, hosting, and software solutions to help businesses grow. Together, with our sub-brands Liquid Web and Servers.com, we serve 185k customers with more than 100,000 servers across the globe.

Learn more at nexcess.com and liquidweb.com.