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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

    Rackspace Fabric

    Score6.3 out of 10
    N/AA solution to bring cloud security, billing, operations and management together. Rackspace Fabric offers a single platform for automated multicloud management. Service includes access to Rackspace cloud technology expertise, and provides a unified interface management for all cloud resources across Azure, AWS, GCP, and VMware, in a single, SaaS like operating environment.

    $500

    per month

    Pricing
    FlywheelRackspace Fabric
    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
    Minimum Service
    $500.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FlywheelRackspace Fabric
    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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    FlywheelRackspace Fabric
    Small Businesses
    Cloudways
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    WP Engine
    Score7.4 out of 10
    IBM Turbonomic
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    IBM Turbonomic
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    FlywheelRackspace Fabric
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    FlywheelRackspace Fabric
    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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    Rackspace
    I am highly likely to recommend Rackspace Cloud Monitoring to a colleague. This is assuming they have a decent background in working on cloud servers. If you don't mind digging in yourself to solve problems, then this is a great resource. If you are just learning how to set up servers on your own, then I recommend at least hiring someone to help you use the service. With that being said, Rackspace makes it easy for people you may hire to seamlessly work within your account. They get their own separate developer account.
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    Pros
    WP Engine
    • Customer Service
    • User Interface
    • User Experience
    • Creative Support
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    Rackspace
    • Immediate email notifications: In case a service is down on our servers, we get immediate email notifications via rackspace cloud monitoring service. This helps us to know about the issues and we get in contact with support team to get it resolved.
    • Configuration on specific services: We can configure this monitoring on specific services. So for example if i don't want to get notified if MySQL concurrent users limit reached, then I do not need to configure this monitoring for MySQL. I can just use it whenever needed for defined services.
    • Group emails and technical contacts emails: The monitoring service can send email alerts to a number of email addresses. Primarily the ones who are added as a technical contact. It helps all people get notified about any issue.
    • Auto ticket management: Rackspace automatically creates a support ticket when a service is down and is notified by their monitoring service.
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    Cons
    WP Engine
    • Flywheel is more expensive than many hosting companies
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    Rackspace
    • It would be nice if there were more templates so that beginners could easily create complex monitors
    • I seemed to stumble upon the cloud monitoring service after having Rackspace for a while
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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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    Rackspace
    I also used Monitis as a monitoring service for our server. Rackspace'S monitoring sends immediate notifications while Monitis might take a couple minutes to understand if a service is down. Since Rackspace has their monitoring integrated with their support system, it helps us a lot and we don't need to call support all the time.
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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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    Rackspace
    • I have overpaid in the past for services I didn't need
    • The steepish learning curve might slow things down at first
    • I have learned a lot using Rackspace Cloud Monitoring!
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