Cloudways vs. Flywheel

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cloudways
Score 9.9 out of 10
N/A
Cloudways, by DigitalOcean, offers a range of managed hosting solutions, including managed Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento, and others, with a choice of infrastructure providers and media delivery via CloudwaysVPN, and CloudwaysBot notification system.
$10
per month
Flywheel
Score 9.9 out of 10
N/A
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.
$15
per month 1 site
Pricing
CloudwaysFlywheel
Editions & Modules
Starting Price
$10.00
per month
Maximum Price
$274.33
per month
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
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CloudwaysFlywheel
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup Fee$25 per applicationNo setup fee
Additional DetailsCloudways offers 1 free migration to all customers. For any further migration needs the customer can use our free WordPress migration plugin and do it themselves. Or they can request paid migration services for any PHP based application, which start at $25 per application.Discount available for annual pricing equal to about 2 months free.
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Community Pulse
CloudwaysFlywheel
Best Alternatives
CloudwaysFlywheel
Small Businesses
Flywheel
Flywheel
Score 9.9 out of 10
SiteGround
SiteGround
Score 9.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
WP Engine
WP Engine
Score 8.9 out of 10
WP Engine
WP Engine
Score 8.9 out of 10
Enterprises
Pantheon
Pantheon
Score 8.6 out of 10
Pantheon
Pantheon
Score 8.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
CloudwaysFlywheel
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.7
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
CloudwaysFlywheel
Likelihood to Recommend
Cloudways has been a great fit for our organization and has allowed us to host as many sites as we need and scale those websites. We have a paid service plan and their team of support agents is the best that I have ever worked with. They have helped us through numerous scenarios over the years and are always there 24/7/365. From simple questions to the most complex hat we could come up with they are always willing to roll up their sleeves and see issues through to completion.
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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.
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Pros
  • Automatic Daily One Click Restore Backups
  • Integrated CDN
  • Easy & Intuitive Alternate Interface to cPanel and WHM
  • Very Affordable for High Specs
  • 24/7 Customer Support is Extremely Helpful
  • Serve & Application Management is a Breeze
  • Choose from Multiple Server Locations
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  • 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
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Cons
  • Their free alternative to WP Rocket could be made more user-friendly and easier to understand
  • Create a function to automatically report heavy usage to specific email IDs
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  • I'd like to see some more tools (flush cache, etc) available from inside the WP admin area
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Usability
They are constantly improving their dashboards and interface to make it easier to use and find the things that we use the most. It's a lot of features to pack in to one UI and they have done a great job of making it user friendly. Their layout is intuitive and easy to learn and is extremely granular. We are able to control every aspect of our websites and applications from an individual level from scaling, to cache, to DNS, security, WAF, and everything in between.
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Support Rating
Technical support is just 2-3 clicks away and the Cloudways homepage and the operators are available almost 24/7. They also are able to answer any kind of question related to their services, whether economical or technical. I sometimes made mistakes while using their services and they have been keen to help me, and fixed my problems really fast.
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Alternatives Considered
VPS and dedicated hosting are costly, Therefore cloud hosting provides a cheaper way to own a powerful server, and IP is dedicated as well. Cloudways was the decision because:
1) Easy to set up without any linux commands we can set up the server
2) Live chat for technical help. (Excellent agents, they helped out of the scope issues too)
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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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Return on Investment
  • It simplified our systems, it's Cloudways + mainwp for maintenance and hosting now.
  • It allowed us to save on server maintenance work costs.
  • The email is easy to spin up around it if someone doesn't want google workspace.
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  • 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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