Flywheel Pricing Overview

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Many hosting companies claim that they are "dedicated" to WordPress but these guys really mean it. Although they don't host straight HTML, what they do with WordPress is fantastic. I love the pricing, I love the support and I really love their consistent customer service.

I don't like the fact that they don't host straight HTML because I offer e-learning but there is no problem with embedding plain HTML pages into root or subfolders.

I have been through at least 10 WordPress hosts over the years and have found varying levels of troubling management, troubling pricing structures (some won't let you downgrade without sacrificing your first-born) and troubling inconsistent service (some are very knowledgeable and some

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.

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

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..

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.

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.

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.

It's faster than most other hosting platforms with a mostly responsive support team. The dashboard gives you all the necessary controls to manage your WordPress websites, being easy to use and pleasant to look at, with security and daily backup features in the case of an emergency.

The staging environments they provide are slow and often needs its memory boosted to not run into memory exhaustion errors between every WordPress dashboard page load. Some support staff members have no clue what they're talking about in certain circumstances, requiring you to elevate the support ticket to a higher-level tier. Processes sometimes get stuck, needing a support agent's help to rectify. Our hosting accounts have been stuck on the legacy hosting platform, which hosts our websites on the same server, adversely affecting performance, especially during heavy spambot attacks. After requesting multiple times for conversion over to their new hosting infrastructure, they still haven't migrated our accounts over to it, keeping us in the legacy platform. Unfortunately, this means we can't take advantage of all the features the new hosting infrastructure offers.

Keeps all of our "Enterprise" hosting clients all in one place, on a server that's more secure than other hosting platforms. The server's fast enough and gives us plenty of tools to optimize performance with caching mechanisms and complimentary CDNs—a good value for the money, with a service that scales with you as your client base grows.

Easy site migration, very simple to manage your site details, makes it easy to keep your site running the way you want it to

Wish they would allow you to have a test site operating for free (behind a password of course) without paying for it. If you build a side hustle site, you have to complete it within a few days.

Needed a way to host my websites more simply than shared hosting. It has saved me hours every month in management and upgrading.

Their support in integration was pretty smooth.

The migration took much longer than expected and thus we were unable to complete it before we got acquired. When we canceled our service we are still getting charged with no response from their online support or email. I had to block their billing from my credit card company as they just don't respond to billing.

We didn't get to realize the benefits are the migration to FlyWheel just took too long. We wanted a managed hosting environment that allowed our DevOps to focus on other platforms with improved performance.