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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Flywheel

    Score4.8 out of 10
    N/AFlywheel 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

    Hetzner IaaS

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/AHetzner is a professional web hosting provider and data center operator offering a range of IaaS and cloud services, as well as web hosting, managed or self-managed.N/A
    Pricing
    FlywheelHetzner IaaS
    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
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FlywheelHetzner IaaS
    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.—
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    Features
    FlywheelHetzner IaaS
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Flywheel and Hetzner IaaS
    Feature
    Flywheel
    -
    Ratings
    Hetzner IaaS
    8.6
    1 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Monitoring tools00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Operating system support00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Security controls00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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    WP Engine
    Score7.4 out of 10
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    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    FlywheelHetzner IaaS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
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    Usability
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    User Testimonials
    FlywheelHetzner IaaS
    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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    Hetzner
    Very affordable cloud server solution for people who can set up their own servers. There are quite a lot of regions (but sadly no Frankfurt) as well as a lot of templates to get started quickly with the servers, including Coolify, which allows you to run a PaaS inside Hetzner without too much hassle.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    WP Engine
    • Customer Service
    • User Interface
    • User Experience
    • Creative Support
    Incentivized
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    Hetzner
    • VPS/Cloud servers.
    • Networking
    • Load balancers.
    • Configuration via UI.
    • Volumes
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    WP Engine
    • Flywheel is more expensive than many hosting companies
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    Hetzner
    • No-downtime upgrade - lately we've had 2 forced downtimes because of planned maintenance, which is not very nice, but we managed.
    • Managed databases would be amazing.
    • Any kind of PAAS for running containerized apps (even though I think that's past what they want to be).
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    WP Engine
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    Hetzner
    I think the UI is best-in-class, really. The UX is very though-through and nothing is missing or out of place. Kudos to their designer. Design is great, but they also have a CLI, which could be quite handy for AI agents. I think it has the foundation to scale the offering into something great, given the quality of everything they put out.
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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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    Hetzner
    We chose it because of price, because it's like 5-6 times cheaper while offering top-tier features and quality for a SAAS business. Also, we observed that they kept adding new features, so we were sure we could stick with them (Volumes, Private Networks, and other features were added after we had already become customers).
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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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    Hetzner
    • Hetzner allowed us to retain great margins on our business.
    • Hetzner allowed us to experiment with various self-hosted tools to safe money.
    • It allows us to run the fast http servers without breaking the bank.
    Incentivized
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