A2 Hosting vs. Flywheel

if you're looking for a somewhat cheap web host but don't care about uptime, outages or decent technical support then A2 is ideal

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.

Incentivized

• the hosting hardware they provide is decent when you consider the price

• 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

Incentivized

• technical support
• quality control
• escalating issues to management when needed
• customer service communication
• training their tech support team

• I'd like to see some more tools (flush cache, etc) available from inside the WP admin area

Incentivized

Never would I use this service. I canceled 7 accounts I believe so far. [In my opinion] it's a waste.

[In my opinion] it barely works.

they are only technically available but having someone say hello, i'm here to help, immediately is not real responsive if they actually never address the issue being reported. we don't contact support for the bland greeting, we are actually trying to solve a business process interruption

They are only good if you never update your website and i mean never. Otherwise their main performance diffrentiator is turbo web hosting, their highest shared hosting plan. When caching is working it performs well reducing load times by half, but as soon as you add a new page to the site, the updates don't show up until you clear the cache manually from multiple locations (wordpress a2optimized plugin, cpanel etc..). As they make updates to the turbo hosting A2optimized plugin, they do not test them properly and do not handle customer feedback about them, instead they are in denial and try to immediately convince the customer there is no issue at all! the old developer joke when they don't want to fix feedback: it works on my machine!

[In my opinion] they have the worst customer support. It's awful. [I feel like] they talk over you [and] they blame anything but what is real. [It makes me think] they are uneducated. [When I dealt with them] they never answered why things went wrong. [I feel like] they are nightmares and just hard to deal with. And, [from my experience] they are NOT nice. [I felt like] they act condescending in conversations. They waste so much time over nothing.

[In my experience] it was a mess from the start and created problems ever since day one.

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.

Incentivized

I believe they do not care about addressing failures when they occur. Starting out with a working service counts for nothing if you can't maintain it, fix issues when reported, and actually take the extra step to prevent them from happening again. You have to care about quality and customer service, and A2 couldn't care less

• they are adequate for a startup looking for cheap site hosting but unreliable for anything beyond

• 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

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