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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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Flywheel is a first class dedicated WordPress hosting provider

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Duncan McMillanView profile
Director at Art & Soul Communications Ltd (1-10 employees employees)

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

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Jennifer BlairView profile
Creative Director and Owner at Jen Blair Design (1-10 employees employees)

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

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Jonathan TeixeiraView profile
Co-Founder in Corporate at Saltpinch Creative Co. (1-10 employees employees)

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