Once a favorite agency host with great Local integration, but 503 errors, sluggish frontend and backend speeds, and stripped resources forced migrating 42 of 52 client sites away.
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A score out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews, so a handful of glowing reviews can’t beat a product many people like.
42% Positive8%50% Negative
Easy dashboard with backups and staging included, though it has fewer features than WP Engine.
What customers love, and what they don’tWhat customers noticed
Customer reviews (23)
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Frequent site slowdowns from exhausted PHP workers led support to pitch a 600-dollar-per-month plan upgrade for a modest 30k-visit site.
Found a memory cap behind failed API requests on a plugin-heavy client site, and support's official response was that they did not know what they were talking about. Moving the site elsewhere solved it, and migrating to cPanel was awkward because full backups were scattered.
Common questions about Flywheel
What do customers say about Flywheel?
Most customers, including several long-term customers, praise its support and easy dashboard for WordPress sites, with backups and staging included. Downsides are fewer features than WP Engine, and one report of slower speeds after the acquisition. It suits agencies and freelancers managing client sites.
Is Flywheel worth it?
Of the 12 reviews with a clear verdict, 42% are positive, 8% mixed and 50% negative. The praise mentioned most is helpful support. The most common complaint is poor support.
What do people like about Flywheel?
The praise reviewers mention most: helpful support (3 reviews), easy to use (1 review) and fast (1 review). For example: A Flywheel customer of almost a decade, after leaving Bluehost, says it cleans your site for free if hacked.
What are the most common complaints about Flywheel?
The complaints reviewers mention most: poor support (3 reviews), resource limits (3 reviews) and slow (3 reviews). For example: Once lightning fast years ago, the platform has become annoyingly slow alongside longer live chat support wait times.
What does the signal score of 51 mean?
It's how well reviewed Flywheel is, out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews: a service needs plenty of them, compared with the most-reviewed services here, to reach the high 80s and 90s. It's worked out from reviews only, needs at least 5 of them, and updates as new ones come in.
What are the specs of Flywheel?
Category: Managed WordPress.
Where do these Flywheel reviews come from?
23 are quotes from Reddit, each linked to the original. Customer reviews are checked for spam before they appear. Every review, written here or quoted, is read as positive, mixed or negative.