Cloudways vs. Flywheel

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cloudways
Score 9.6 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 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Flywheel is a managed Wordpress hosting specialist supported by WP Engine, boasting creative and design agency tools, plugins, and white label services for designers who choose Flywheel as their hosting provider.
$15
per month
Pricing
CloudwaysFlywheel
Editions & Modules
Starting Price
$10.00
per month
Maximum Price
$274.33
per month
Tiny
$15.00
per month 1 site
Starter
$30.00
per month 1 site
Freelance
$115.00
per month up to 10 sites
Agency
$290.00
per month up to 30 sites
Custom
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CloudwaysFlywheel
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup Fee$25 per applicationNo setup fee
Additional DetailsCloudways 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.Discount available for annual pricing equal to about 2 months free.
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Best Alternatives
CloudwaysFlywheel
Small Businesses
SiteGround
SiteGround
Score 9.6 out of 10
SiteGround
SiteGround
Score 9.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
WP Engine
WP Engine
Score 8.5 out of 10
WP Engine
WP Engine
Score 8.5 out of 10
Enterprises
Pantheon
Pantheon
Score 8.5 out of 10
Pantheon
Pantheon
Score 8.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
CloudwaysFlywheel
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(5 ratings)
10.0
(3 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.7
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
CloudwaysFlywheel
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.
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WP Engine
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.
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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
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WP Engine
  • Customer Service
  • User Interface
  • User Experience
  • Creative Support
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Cons
DigitalOcean
  • More flexible notifications
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WP Engine
  • Flywheel is more expensive than many hosting companies
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Usability
DigitalOcean
They are constantly improving their dashboards and interface to make it easier to use and find the things that we use the most. It's a lot of features to pack in to one UI and they have done a great job of making it user friendly. Their layout is intuitive and easy to learn and is extremely granular. We are able to control every aspect of our websites and applications from an individual level from scaling, to cache, to DNS, security, WAF, and everything in between.
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WP Engine
No answers on this topic
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.
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WP Engine
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
DigitalOcean
Whilst all the top hosting companies have good customer service. Hostinger is the winner here for me. SiteGround has fast servers, but fees increase significantly in year two. CloudWays has excellent support at a lower price than SiteGround. They win over the other two companies because they make it very simple to manage site hosting, specifically for VPS/cloud hosting. You do not need to be as technical as you would if you're a customer of Hostinger and SiteGround. So, in short, for a fast-growing website with 6k+ sessions per month (low WP maintenance experience), I'd choose Cloudways.
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WP Engine
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.
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Return on Investment
DigitalOcean
  • We were able to reduce load on our main server.
  • By migrating social sentiment platform to cloudways, we were able to scale and run it effeciently.
  • It saved lot of time as well in terms of server management.
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WP Engine
  • Fast/easy to create new sites with blueprints
  • Easy to work locally with Local
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