#1 most frequent
United States of America
81.2%55,185 installations of 67,985
What is Flywheel?
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.
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Who Buys & Uses Flywheel
#2 most frequent
Canada
5.8%3,935 installations of 67,985
#3 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
5.0%3,410 installations of 67,985
Flywheel is a first class dedicated WordPress hosting provider
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Whenever customers require premium WordPress hosting we recommend Flywheel. We manage a number of websites on Flywheel’s platform and I have always been impressed with their site management portal—spinning up a new site is really simple. Flywheel support has always been first class—they will even handle migration of an existing site over to their platform for you.
Pros
- Excellent support documentation and tech support
- Very easy to set up a staging environment and migrate to live site when ready
- One click set up of SSL
- Great performance for page loading speeds with easy-to-set-up caching
- Seamless deployment of local development site to staging or production with Flywheel Local
Cons
- Flywheel is more expensive than many hosting companies
Most Important Features
- Speed
- Convenience
- Ease of use
Return on Investment
- Moving sites to Flywheel has improved page loading speeds
- Using Flywheel for hosting saves us hours every month in terms of routine maintenance on WordPress sites
Alternatives Considered
Linode and GoDaddy
Flywheel is my FAVORITE WordPress Managed Hosting
Pros
- Seamless integration with Local
- Easy-to-use dev, test, and live environments
- Affordable price tiers for smaller agencies
- Daily backups
- Customized WordPress hosting support
- Clean, easy-to-use UI
Cons
- I'd like to see an option for Flywheel to provide email hosting for custom domains
- A sandbox feature to preview new sites for customers
Most Important Features
- The seamless integration with Local
- Test and Live Environments
- Daily Backups
- Easy-to-use interface
Return on Investment
- Flywheel has helped me maintain my website where many customers have discovered my business
- Flywheel has positively impacted my business by offering me an reliable solution to run my WooCommerce Store.
- Flywheel offered me an affordable managed hosting option, particularly valuable for a small business.
Alternatives Considered
WP Engine, Pantheon and Media Temple IaaS Cloud
Other Software Used
Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe InDesign, Adobe PhotoShop
I LOVE Using Flywheel
Pros
- Customer Service
- User Interface
- User Experience
- Creative Support
Cons
- I'd like to see some more tools (flush cache, etc) available from inside the WP admin area
Most Important Features
- Staging Sites
- Backups
- Security
- 24/7 Live Support
Return on Investment
- Fast/easy to create new sites with blueprints
- Easy to work locally with Local
Alternatives Considered
GoDaddy, Kinsta and DreamHost
Other Software Used
Infinity, Readdle Spark