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AccelerateWP is a WordPress optimization plugin built into your cPanel. If you’ve used WP Rocket, the feature set will look familiar: full-page caching, JS/CSS minification, lazy loading, and database cleanup. CloudLinux ships and maintains it, and we expose it through cPanel for free.
AccelerateWP main page with feature toggles

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What you get on Noxity

Noxity includes the free AccelerateWP feature set. That’s:
FeaturePage
Full-page caching, mobile/user separation, preloadCaching
CSS/JS minification, combination, defer, delayFile optimization
Image lazy loading, font optimization, image dimensionsMedia optimization
Database cleanup, Heartbeat control, MAx Cache add-onDatabase and Heartbeat
Smart Advice (suggests features when you’d benefit)This page, below
Premium AccelerateWP features (Image Optimization, CDN, Object Caching) are not included on Noxity plans. This page documents what we offer. The CloudLinux upstream docs cover the premium features but they’re not toggleable from your cPanel.

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Requirements

Before activating:
  • PHP 7.3 or higher. Most accounts already are. If you’re not, switch via Select PHP Version.
  • WordPress 5.8 or higher.
  • No other caching plugin installed. WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache, LiteSpeed Cache, and AccelerateWP all manipulate the same .htaccess and cache directories. Pick one. Deactivate and uninstall the others before activating AccelerateWP.
  • Not in WordPress Multisite mode. Multisite isn’t supported.

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Activate the feature

1

Open AccelerateWP in cPanel

cPanel home → Software → AccelerateWP.
2

Select your WordPress install

AccelerateWP scans for WordPress sites under your account and lists them. If yours doesn’t appear, the install isn’t being detected, usually because it’s in an unusual location. See the common issues below.
3

Click Activate

AccelerateWP installs a Must-Use plugin into the WordPress install and turns on full-page caching by default.The activation runs a quick health check (HTTP 200 response, no errors in the log). If the check fails you can either let AccelerateWP roll back automatically or override and continue.
After activation, the feature page shows a dashboard with toggles for every optimization. Page caching is on; everything else starts off and is opt-in.

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Smart Advice

AccelerateWP watches your site’s slow requests for a few days after activation. When it detects an optimization that would help, an Advice available badge appears next to the relevant feature. Click Apply advice and AccelerateWP enables the feature for you. If the result is bad, click Rollback and the change reverts. Smart Advice is a passive system. It won’t enable anything without your click. The features it most often recommends:
  • Lazy loading for image-heavy posts
  • JS deferral for sites with multiple analytics scripts
  • DB cleanup for sites with thousands of post revisions
For features Smart Advice doesn’t recommend, you can still enable them manually from the feature pages.

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Why AccelerateWP versus a WordPress plugin

AccelerateWPA WordPress caching plugin
Where it runsAt the cPanel/Apache layerInside WordPress
Update pathWe update centrally; you don’t manage versionsManual or auto-update via WP admin
Conflict surfaceLower (no PHP plugin to conflict with)Higher (interacts with every other plugin)
CoverageFree tier includes most of what you’d pay forPay for the full feature set in plugins like WP Rocket
GranularityAccount-wide settingsPer-site settings
If you already pay for WP Rocket and it works, you don’t need to switch. If you’re on a free plugin (Cache Enabler, Autoptimize) and want one of the included features without juggling, AccelerateWP is the upgrade.

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Common issues

Either WordPress isn’t in the standard public_html location, or wp-config.php is missing/unreadable. Move the install to a recognized location, or symlink it. We can also detect installs added recently by hitting the Refresh button on the page.
AccelerateWP expects an HTTP 200 from the homepage and no fresh errors in the log after enabling. If it fails, the homepage probably already has an issue (the new caching just exposes it). Disable AccelerateWP, fix whatever’s returning the non-200, then re-activate.
A full-page cache caches the broken response. Deactivate AccelerateWP, fix the WordPress issue (probably a plugin conflict; disable everything except AccelerateWP and reactivate plugins one at a time), then re-enable.
Often AccelerateWP enables gzip compression that mod_pagespeed (if your stack uses it) can’t optimize further. Also, not every optimization is on by default. Enable File optimization and Media optimization features one at a time and re-test.
The page is being served from the static cache. WooCommerce, BuddyPress, and similar plugins set cookies AccelerateWP recognizes and bypasses, but custom flows might not. Add the URL to Never Cache URLs under Caching → Advanced rules.
Backup your AccelerateWP settings periodically. The feature page has Export settings at the bottom; download the file before risky updates. To restore, Import settings from the same page.

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