Comments on: Flywheel WordPress Hosting Review (2023): It’s Like a Design Party on The Internet

By: Danish

Danish — Sat, 20 May 2023 15:00:22 +0000

I have used fly by wheel but it can’t run on my pc there is some issue. Can you guide me.thanks

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 02:23:52 +0000

They are not really a “managed host” for WP. Their chat support rarely knows what they’re doing, they’re basically a glorified “New Ticket” service. You can’t do basic WP stuff like edit wp-config.php. You can’t get refunded any amount for downtime, they’ll just tell you “the site wasn’t down” and no matter how much proof you give, they’ll blow you off. And, they jacked the price up on me by $500 / year with no warning and nothing I could do about it. Except, move to SiteGround, which I did.

By: Tom Allen

Tom Allen — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 21:18:15 +0000

Downloaded Flywheel to support WordPress. Absolutely the worst product and support I can remember! The free Flywheel comes with NO support from the company. The “support” is community-based and therefore for one issue there are a multitude of answers. There are so many “bugs” for the lay-user that confusion is and understatement. Hence, one can spend an inordinate amount of time doing “work-arounds”, and still not get it to mess.
Too, the program Oracle VisusalBox is downloaded with the Flywheel program. As a lay-computer user, I have spend hours trying to uninstall this program to no avail. Do not expect any significant help from Flywheel. I am stuck with it until I can take my computer to the shop.
I can not recommend Flywheel Software to anyone.

By: Kristov

Kristov — Sun, 28 May 2017 07:38:41 +0000

In reply to Mark.

Agreed 100% annoying these hosts putting fancy names on basic tech like SUPERFLY–CACHE or b.s. like that when they are just running Nginx FastCGI Cache etc…

Flywheel free migrations is one of the things they have better than others. but

still prefer my own custom Nginx VPS on Vultr or Linode or have used LittleBizzy to manage a few of my sites previously on Vultr, who are fast hardware (Intel CPUs).

Plus LittleBizzy lets you choose any datacenter in the world good for Aussie clients especially.

By: Shaun Snapp

Shaun Snapp — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 17:59:07 +0000

That is a great point.

I am looking into WP Managed hosting because of unrelenting hacking attacks and I realize how much time I put into managing all the backend stuff with my non-managed host. But these new hosts like Flywheel and Kinsta are very different that the traditional host. Many of my plug ins are redundant because they do them.

I think this issue of migrating away from them is a common issue among them. Although how much they differ in particular on this can’t claim to know.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 06:36:14 +0000

I agree that Flywheel is a solid solution – until you decide to move to get even higher performance or a better price! Their lack of support in letting you know how different their setup is and what to watch for when you move may/will prove an enormous headache.

They run nginx servers (being basically an amazon reseller with their proprietary admin interface) and have many un-obvious files in place that overwrite fixes you put in place to run on an apache server. Yup, Flywheel files after moving, act like you’ve been hacked!

So? Big boys should know right? Except I specifically asked them for tips on hidden gotchas like this. “oh no just download the backups and install” Sloppy at best, willfully negligent at worst.

Moved 47 sites; to have many blowing up and upset clients calling and getting the sites fixed only to have them reset every have hour and go dark again was not fun! Flywheel knows this is something to watch for – be very careful if/when you leave! Check your wp-config and wp-settings files.

By: Stavros

Stavros — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 08:47:08 +0000

In reply to Daryn Collier.

Dear Daryn,

You are welcome.

I confirm that it looks much better now.

Have a great weekend.

Regards,
Stavros

By: Daryn Collier

Daryn Collier — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 08:43:57 +0000

Thanks for the heads up Stavros,
It looks like maybe the second column was duplicated except for price. It should be sorted now.

Cheers,
Daryn

By: Stavros

Stavros — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 16:37:37 +0000

Dear Daryn,

Nice post but you should really recheck the “Quick Managed Hosting Comparison” table because it has many errors such as:

1. Pagely does NOT provide staging URL feature for the plan that you mention.
2. What does ‘Y’ mean for installs at WP Engine? Sounds like a typo.
3. Site migration is not included for all of them for free.
4. Backups are quite different for each one of those plans

Regards,
Stavros