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Flywheel
Effortless Business Management Solutions
4.4
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What is Flywheel?

Flywheel is a web hosting company that offers WordPress hosting solutions popular among web developers, creative agencies, and web designers. The platform’s reliable services and fast speed ensures that any site created on Flywheel will run smoothly. It also provides straightforward tools that allow users to create websites from scratch, using only one-click staging features and free demo sites. It features a well-designed, easy-to-understand interface accessible via an intuitive dashboard.

Company WP Engine
Year founded 2010
Company size 501-1000 employees
Headquarters Austin, Texas, United States
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Segment
Small Business
Mid Market
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Deployment Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based
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Languages English
Flywheel Features
24/7 Monitoring
API Integration
Application Support
Automated Backups
Compliance Reporting
Configuration Management
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
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DDoS Protection
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Resource Monitoring
SSL Certificate Management
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Last updated: July 03, 2024
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38 Flywheel Reviews
4.4 out of 5
Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 19, 2017
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Jim H. avatar
Jim H.
Co Founder & Ceo
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"Easiest way to host a WordPress site"
What do you like best about Flywheel?

Customer service is top notch, our sites are very responsive and load quickly. Easy to manage multiple sites.

What do you dislike about Flywheel?

Nothing to dislike. I've been happy with everything so far after 4 years.

What problems is Flywheel solving and how is that benefiting you?

Increased rankings from fast site delivery, easy to host multiple sites, great affiliate program.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 28, 2017
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
DS
Don S.
Sales Executive
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"Amazing managed WordPress hosting"
What do you like best about Flywheel?

Great customer service, they cash custom build any solution.

What do you dislike about Flywheel?

Need to know what you're doing it expect to work with customer service only during working hours.

What problems is Flywheel solving and how is that benefiting you?

Managed WordPress hosting.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 17, 2017
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Eddie H. avatar
Eddie H.
Founder
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"Excellent WordPress Hosting"
What do you like best about Flywheel?

Been using Flywheel for over 2 years now and absolutely love it! They make WordPress hosting extremely simple with a clean and modern designed user dashboard which is a refreshing change from using cPanel and other clunky hosting interfaces. This also helps with site management since I can easily see all my websites on a single screen, each with their own thumbnail image, giving each website a visual representation helping with organization. All my sites on Flywheel are fast and have consistent reliable speeds. This is important when managing sites for clients, since the performance of their website reflects on my business and my reputation. With over 2 years of service, I've probably had less than 3 issues and all were solved very quickly. I also love the fact that they provide security monitoring and will help fix your site if you ever get hacked. No problems yet! In addition to the simple UI and suburb hosting performance, there are several other small features that have greatly helped my productivity and efficiency when creating websites such as: one click restore, easy billing exchange for clients who want to run their own site after completion, one click add-ons like SSL/CDN/Multisite, the blueprint feature (which essentially allows you to clone sites), inviting collaborators, site staging, and other new features that seem to be released on a regular basis.

What do you dislike about Flywheel?

Some things I think Flywheel could improve upon is their support availability. They have amazing support and will even help with some WordPress related issues (which is nice). However, they have limited hours that you can call. I'm on their Agency plan (their highest plan) and it would be nice to get 24/7 calling or even hours that go beyond standard business hours. My second issue is that they base their pricing based on how many sites you manage, so it can be expensive if you have a lot of sites that are small and don't use much resources. Since I work with small businesses, most of my sites have little to moderate traffic and use little storage space. Would be nice if they offered discounts to users who run small sites that use little resources and bandwidth, since that's the real cost of hosting.

What problems is Flywheel solving and how is that benefiting you?

I'm a web designer, so I wanted to find a web hosting platform made specifically for WordPress that wasn't confusing or clunky to work with. While Flywheel is on the expensive side, It has helped save me time and money in the long-run by being able to make sites faster, spending less time dealing with problems/issues, and making the overall hosting experience more enjoyable. The performance of my WordPress sites has also increased, leading to happier more satisfied clients, helping me grow my business.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jul 28, 2016
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Chantelle R. avatar
Chantelle R.
Brand Strategist
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"A Must-Have for Freelancers"
What do you like best about Flywheel?

I love the fact that I can create a demo site and just transfer it to my clients. It has definitely streamlined my process and made my life a little easier.

What do you dislike about Flywheel?

I've just started using it recently. So far, I have no complaints. The customer service is awesome and they answered all of my questions even though I found the answer on the site in plain view shortly after my call.

What problems is Flywheel solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have been creating my demo sites on a separate hosting package that I purchased with Godaddy and the process takes a little bit of time to transfer and even more of a hassle when its time to start over with a new client. I love that I can duplicate and drag and drop everything from my template down to the plugins.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 17, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
Nick S. avatar
Nick S.
Operator Training Communication Consultant
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"Great platform and support for medium sized web presence"
What do you like best about Flywheel?

By far the best support I've received from a hosting company. They are very quick to answer questions, and you get to speak to a live person right away. Their management interface is super simple to navigate and includes many features you have to pay extra for with other providers. SSL, backups, etc., are all included and very easy to use.

What do you dislike about Flywheel?

When our website needs to send a lot of notifications (password resets, purchase confirmations, etc.) in a single day, we've exceeded our email limit and Flywheel shut down our email. This led to hundreds of customers not receiving notifications for the time it was down, and this has happened multiple times. We've not been able to get a solid number from them on email limits, or any solution for increasing those limits.

What problems is Flywheel solving and how is that benefiting you?

Simple Wordpress hosting with excellent 24/7/365 customer support.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Apr 25, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
MF
Michael F.
Ceo/Founder
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"Best hosting provider I've ever used"
What do you like best about Flywheel?

I LOVE their user interface. It's so intuitive and it doesn't give me anxiety from looking at it like I get with most hosting provider dashboards.

What do you dislike about Flywheel?

The price is a little high but definitely worth it.

What problems is Flywheel solving and how is that benefiting you?

Really fast wordpress hosting that is reliable so I never have to worry about it. No downtime so far.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Apr 05, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
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Javier V.
Partner
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"Co founder - Uproot Online"
What do you like best about Flywheel?

Flywheel has helped our web design project flow.

What do you dislike about Flywheel?

I wish it wasn’t so expensive so we could pass on those savings to our customers.

What problems is Flywheel solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have a agency plan with Flywheel and this helps us rapidly develop demo sites and keep all of our clients sites under one umbrella.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 17, 2017
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
DY
Dave Y.
Senior Developer
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"Excellent straightforward WordPress hosting option"
What do you like best about Flywheel?

WordPress performance & security are outstanding on Flywheel. They also have the cleanest, most inviting dashboard UI of any host I've used. They only show you the options you actually need. They also make it easy for me as a developer to hand the site off to a client or billing admin.

What do you dislike about Flywheel?

There are times when I as a developer would like a little more control. Also, I wish all of their plans included staging, and it would be nice if the "development" period when setting up a new site was longer than 30 days. It usually takes me longer than that to take a site from start to launch.

What problems is Flywheel solving and how is that benefiting you?

Setting clients up with a WordPress host that is dependable and isn't trying to upsell them at every opportunity.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jun 23, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
Phil H. avatar
Phil H.
Free Lance Photographer
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"Excellent, excellent, excellent, but..."
What do you like best about Flywheel?

Ease of use, website speed and backup. Restoring to a previous version is very easy. Customer service is very good, but has slipped recently.

What do you dislike about Flywheel?

I've been with Flywheel for 4 years. Technically, it's the best I've ever seen. Speed, uptime, interface all excellent. But this is not the best hosting for 1 or 2 websites. This is a professional-level, agency-oriented hosting company, evolving toward agencies with 20 or more clients. Pricing recently changed from 4 choices to 2. You can have 1 website or 10, there's nothing in between. I just don't need 10 websites. Also, customer service is slipping. Used to be, I'd get a support ticket response within 15 minutes. Now, it's more than 24 hours.

What problems is Flywheel solving and how is that benefiting you?

"What problems is Flywheel..." is incorrect English... C'mon, guys.... Learn to write. None. I run 2 websites of my own and although the technical performance of my website is superb, and customer support is slipping. Plus, it is WAY too expensive for just 2 websites. This is an agency host.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 15, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
Caroline K. avatar
Caroline K.
Digital Marketing Assistant
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"Great WordPress Website Management Tool"
What do you like best about Flywheel?

It's so easy to manage all of your WordPress sites in one spot. Their support team is awesome!

What do you dislike about Flywheel?

You can only add WordPress websites, so we have had to find other alternatives for our HTML sites.

What problems is Flywheel solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our server was hard to manage and Flywheel's support team makes it so much easier.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 17, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
CS
Camille S.
Project Manager/Web Designer
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"Flywheel is as easy as one, two, three!"
What do you like best about Flywheel?

I really like that Flywheel has easy-to-use and easy-to-understand server management, site backups, and one-click site restoration. I also love their Local feature where you are able to edit WordPress sites on your local server, or restore a backup to the local server to grab media or something else that was lost.

What do you dislike about Flywheel?

I dislike that their support team can only direct you to articles rather than going in and doing difficult tasks on your behalf.

What problems is Flywheel solving and how is that benefiting you?

I work for a web design company and one of our white label clients uses Flywheel. It is a good solution for him since he is not a developer, but a designer. We are able to collaborate easily with him using flywheel.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 19, 2020
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
Brendan O. avatar
Brendan O.
Software Engineer
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"Speed + Excellent Support Make it Worth the Money"
What do you like best about Flywheel?

Not provided

What do you dislike about Flywheel?

Not provided

What problems is Flywheel solving and how is that benefiting you?

Not provided

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 05, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
Aaron L. avatar
Aaron L.
Chief Product Officer
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"Awesome User Experience with Brilliant Support"
What do you like best about Flywheel?

The user experience is just so beautiful. The amount of effort placed into designing something as simple and elegant must have been tremendous, and it shows in the usability of the platform. Saying that I love using Flywheel is a severe understatement.

What do you dislike about Flywheel?

The pricing is ok for most basic sites, but for heavy traffic sites that require a higher page view count, $1 for 1000 sessions is really steep. So heavy ecommerce and/or blog sites are not going to work for that price point

What problems is Flywheel solving and how is that benefiting you?

We like how easy it is to pass the cost of hosting and the support of the wordpress site to the customer. It's simple elegant and I never had a client say they didnt understand the workflow. It basically just works

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 30, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
Andrew M. avatar
Andrew M.
Director Of Business Development
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"Flywheel Hosting Review"
What do you like best about Flywheel?

The things we like best about Flywheel hosting are dashboard, support and ease of use. Flywheel's dashboard makes it easy to see all your sites in one place. The hosting options for websites are great as well. We love their customer support and how quickly they respond and resolve issues. The ease of use is great and we love the simplicity of turning a staging site live. The daily backups are a plus and we have the peace of mind knowing our websites will be up and running when we need them to be.

What do you dislike about Flywheel?

The recent pricing changes make things more confusing. The old options for pricing were much more straightforward and easy to understand for us and our customers. More pricing options would be ideal especially for smaller websites that do not require such intensive hosting solutions.

What problems is Flywheel solving and how is that benefiting you?

The things we like best about Flywheel hosting are dashboard, support and ease of use. Flywheel's dashboard makes it easy to see all your sites in one place. The hosting options for websites are great as well. We love their customer support and how quickly they respond and resolve issues. The ease of use is great and we love the simplicity of turning a staging site live. The daily backups are a plus and we have the peace of mind knowing our websites will be up and running when we need them to be.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 05, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
MM
Mary M.
Special Events Coordinator
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"Fly with Flywheel"
What do you like best about Flywheel?

Flywheel is one of the most popular WordPress managed hosting providers available, and it’s easy to see why. They offer a great set of features for both regular WordPress users and agencies alike. With a great support service, fast and reliable performance, what more could you want? They offer several channels of communication, including plain email tickets, phone calls, social media, and live chat. For our Flywheel review for WordPress, we decided to test their live chat, since that’s the channel most people tend to use.

What do you dislike about Flywheel?

There is a higher price than that of what you would find with similar products.

What problems is Flywheel solving and how is that benefiting you?

Flywheel offers a solid managed hosting experience at near-budget prices. There are cheaper alternatives out there, but few can match Flywheel when it comes to overall quality of service. If you’re a WordPress user with a little bit of extra cash in your budget, Flywheel is definitely a choice worth that extra monies..

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