Likelihood to Recommend 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.
Read full review In our organisation we are the only team that uses Platform.sh to host any site. This was a cost effective way for us as we were using Acquia Cloud earlier for these websites. We mostly use Platform.sh for those sites which are always in development as it is simpler and faster to handle these operations in Platform.sh. Then we do a lift and shift to Acquia as we move more towards the go live and post production maintenance side.
Read full review Pros Customer Service User Interface User Experience Creative Support Read full review As this is a PaaS it mitigates the complexities of a Cloud infrastructure like Acquia We are easily able to integrate our sites with different technologies like Python and Rest Helps us in providing Continuous Development cloud deployment hosting solution Read full review Cons Flywheel is more expensive than many hosting companies Read full review Platform.sh is not for beginners in my opinion. It has a good amount of learning curve in my opinion. As this is a PaaS, teams habituated with cloud infrastructure may miss the server side support from their cloud teams. I believe you will have to work on server bugs more on your own. During normal maintenance periods, integrations may fail if you are working on your sites in that time, in my experience. Read full review Alternatives Considered 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.
Read full review In our team we use Platform.sh mostly while sites are in developmental phase. Then we do a lift and shift to either Acquia or AWS depending on the type of sites we have. Platform.sh is really cost effective and more fluid in terms of Continuous Development hence the usage. After said development is done, we generally lift and shift to Acquia for more content heavy sites and to AWS for more transaction oriented sites.
Read full review Return on Investment Fast/easy to create new sites with blueprints Easy to work locally with Local Read full review Continuous development for sites in build has been fluid Platform.sh is really cost effective when comparing to AWS or Acquia Cloud On the other side, lack of server side support demands a big learning curve from its users in my opinion. Read full review ScreenShots