TrustRadius Insights for Flywheel are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Intuitive User Interface: Users have consistently found Flywheel's user interface to be simple and easy to navigate, making it effortless to find what they need. Numerous reviewers have praised the intuitive design, indicating that a significant number of users feel the user interface is user-friendly.
Efficient Customer Support: Many users have expressed their satisfaction with Flywheel's customer support, stating that the support team was quick and efficient in resolving their issues. The promptness and effectiveness of the support provided by Flywheel has been highly valued by multiple reviewers.
Convenient Backup and Restore Features: Several users have appreciated Flywheel's automatic backup and restore features, finding them useful in easily recovering their data after making an error. The convenience and effectiveness of these features have been commended by a number of reviewers.
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
Likelihood to Recommend
Flywheel is great for customers who require fast, performant web hosting with the minimum technical overhead. Their website management dashboard is very user-friendly and makes the process of setting up and maintaining a WordPress site about a simple as it gets.
I use Flywheel to host my design firm's website. I read about them when I saw that WP Engine bought the company. Flywheel offers similar managed hosting features to WP Engine, and I particularly like using Flywheel's test to live environment. Flywheel also effortlessly integrates with Local, so it was a no brainer for me to make the switch to Flywheel from a more barebones shared hosting platform.
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
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.
We use Flywheel to host client websites. The dashboard is a pleasure to use. It's very easy to run local sites and staging sites with their tools.
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
Likelihood to Recommend
Flywheel is amazing for hosting Wordpress sites - that's all they do, and they do it well. Their setup is fast, secure, and easy to use. And their customer support is second to none. An amazing company to work with. We're happy to be customers.