Flywheel vs. Google Domains

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
Google Domains
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
N/A
$12
per year
Pricing
FlywheelGoogle Domains
Editions & Modules
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
Contact sales team
.com
$12.00
per year
.net
$12.00
per year
.org
$12.00
per year
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
FlywheelGoogle Domains
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing equal to about 2 months free.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
FlywheelGoogle Domains
Considered Both Products
Flywheel

No answer on this topic

Google Domains
Chose Google Domains
Google Domains is focused on domain registration only, instead of providing hosting solutions. So it can be a good option if your client has a server but needs a domain for a new website. Also, as it's only one service, it's much easier to use than other solutions and has …
Best Alternatives
FlywheelGoogle Domains
Small Businesses
SiteGround
SiteGround
Score 8.6 out of 10
Shopify
Shopify
Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
WP Engine
WP Engine
Score 7.3 out of 10
Shopify
Shopify
Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprises
Pantheon
Pantheon
Score 8.6 out of 10

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User Ratings
FlywheelGoogle Domains
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(3 ratings)
7.5
(24 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(5 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
FlywheelGoogle Domains
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Google
[Google Domains is] very simplistic and easy to use, so it's very straightforward to register a new domain but it doesn't have some features that other services provide. Also, the integration with other Google Services and domain search tool is amazing.
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Pros
WP Engine
  • Customer Service
  • User Interface
  • User Experience
  • Creative Support
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Google
  • Process of buying a domain with Google Domains is easy
  • Payment was simple - can use Google Wallet and other forms of payment.
  • After purchase, you can quickly build a website with one of their partners.
  • Email forwarding add-on for free.
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Cons
WP Engine
  • Flywheel is more expensive than many hosting companies
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Google
  • Google Domains is pretty good at pre-solving email faux pas such as reply all mishaps. Perhaps a built-in email monitoring tool such as knowing when a customer opens up an email would be good. You can get these features with integrations, but what if it was an internal Google product? Might be nice
  • Email masking was a bit difficult to figure out, but nothing you can't discover with a few Google sessions.
  • I wish I could see more insight into time zones that my customers are in, or scheduling calls on Gcal with timezone awareness. I know this is super hard to code around though.
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Likelihood to Renew
WP Engine
No answers on this topic
Google
Unless the product goes away, I'll continue using it.
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Usability
WP Engine
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Google
Because it is intuitively easy to use, like all of their products. The integration with other apps works seamlessly, and you can have a professional website within hours, rather than days, as with most hosting companies. The templates on the website builder for just about every business make it so simple that even I can do it!
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Support Rating
WP Engine
No answers on this topic
Google
I've never actually had to use support because everything has been very straightforward and I have not had a glitch. I have used Google's support for other items so I can only imagine that it's probably the same support which is decent. They do take a while to get back to you.
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Alternatives Considered
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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Google
GoDaddy is great, but what I really like about Google Domains when compared to GoDaddy is the ease of centralization. Our email, calendar, accounts, domain, etc was all handled in one place and that made things really easy. You could also access domains easily and quickly by being logged into your email, instead of worrying about yet another log in.
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Return on Investment
WP Engine
  • Fast/easy to create new sites with blueprints
  • Easy to work locally with Local
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Google
  • Being able to host my URL with Google Domains is one less thing I have to worry about in my writing career.
  • I'm sure having my URL, which is my name, with Google Domains also helps people find me via Google's search engine.
  • Its ease of integration with other Google products, especially Google Apps for Business, is a huge plus for marketing and day-to-day work.
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