Cloudways vs. Flywheel

Flywheel

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cloudways	Score 9.5 out of 10	N/A	Cloudways, by DigitalOcean, offers a range of managed hosting solutions, including managed Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento, and others, with a choice of infrastructure providers and media delivery via CloudwaysVPN, and CloudwaysBot notification system.	$10 per month
Flywheel	Score 9.5 out of 10	N/A	Flywheel is a managed Wordpress hosting specialist headquartered in Omaha, boasting creative and design agency tools, plugins, and white label services for designers who choose Flywheel as their hosting provider.	$15 per month

Pricing

Cloudways

Flywheel

Editions & Modules

Starting Price: $10.00
per month
Maximum Price: $274.33
per month

Tiny: $15.00
per month
Starter: $30.00
per month
Freelance: $115.00
per month
Agency: $290.00
per month
Custom: Contact sales team

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Cloudways	Flywheel
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

$25 per application

No setup fee

Additional Details

Cloudways offers 1 free migration to all customers. For any further migration needs the customer can use our free WordPress migration plugin and do it themselves. Or they can request paid migration services for any PHP based application, which start at $25 per application.

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Community Pulse
	Cloudways	Flywheel
Top Pros	Pro Customer support Pro Payment method Pro Services offered	Pro Easy to use Pro Affordable price Pro Customer service
Top Cons	Minus Free tier Minus Not supported Minus Credit cards	Minus Admin area Minus Custom domains Minus New sites

Best Alternatives
	Cloudways	Flywheel
Small Businesses	Flywheel Score 9.5 out of 10	Cloudways Score 9.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	WP Engine Score 9.2 out of 10	WP Engine Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises	Pantheon Score 8.4 out of 10	Pantheon Score 8.4 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Cloudways	Flywheel
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (4 ratings)	10.0 (3 ratings)
Support Rating	9.7 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cloudways	Flywheel
Likelihood to Recommend	DigitalOcean When you dont know how to set up a cloud server technically, (The LAMP stack or the PHP settings etc) Cloudways comes handy. You can easily modify the server settings with one click. Less Appropriate - If you want to save costs, go for direct cloud providers. Setting up technical stuff is a one time job. Incentivized Kaushik Somaiya Owner Read full review	Flywheel Flywheel is particularly well-suited for hands-on WordPress managed hosting. It's also perfect for developers who build site's locally on Local and then want an effortless way to import them into their managed hosting environment. Flywheel particularly excels in scenarios where a customer needs managed. WordPress hosting that handles daily backups and offers test and live environments for a reasonable price. Incentivized Jennifer Blair Creative Director and Owner Read full review
Pros	DigitalOcean Automatic Daily One Click Restore Backups Integrated CDN Easy & Intuitive Alternate Interface to cPanel and WHM Very Affordable for High Specs 24/7 Customer Support is Extremely Helpful Serve & Application Management is a Breeze Choose from Multiple Server Locations Brandon Dith-Berry Senior Information Technology Manager Read full review	Flywheel Customer Service User Interface User Experience Creative Support Incentivized Jonathan Teixeira Co-Founder Read full review
Cons	DigitalOcean Their free alternative to WP Rocket could be made more user-friendly and easier to understand Create a function to automatically report heavy usage to specific email IDs Incentivized Naz Haque Google Consultant Read full review	Flywheel Flywheel is more expensive than many hosting companies Incentivized Duncan McMillan Director Read full review
Support Rating	DigitalOcean Technical support is just 2-3 clicks away and the Cloudways homepage and the operators are available almost 24/7. They also are able to answer any kind of question related to their services, whether economical or technical. I sometimes made mistakes while using their services and they have been keen to help me, and fixed my problems really fast. DP Dario Pedroni Web Developer Read full review	Flywheel No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	DigitalOcean VPS and dedicated hosting are costly, Therefore cloud hosting provides a cheaper way to own a powerful server, and IP is dedicated as well. Cloudways was the decision because: 1) Easy to set up without any linux commands we can set up the server 2) Live chat for technical help. (Excellent agents, they helped out of the scope issues too) Incentivized Kaushik Somaiya Owner Read full review	Flywheel Compared to WP Engine and Pantheon, Flywheel offers the most affordable and easy-to-use managed hosting platform for WordPress websites. I actually prefer Flywheel's UI a bit more to WP Engine's. Media Temple simply doesn't offer an affordable hosting option that particularly caters to WordPress websites. Flywheel has become my favorite among managed hosting platforms that are targeted on servicing WordPress developers. Incentivized Jennifer Blair Creative Director and Owner Read full review
Return on Investment	DigitalOcean Massive ROI compared to Go Daddy's Server Brandon Dith-Berry Senior Information Technology Manager Read full review	Flywheel Fast/easy to create new sites with blueprints Easy to work locally with Local Incentivized Jonathan Teixeira Co-Founder Read full review
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