Flywheel vs. IONOS Hosting

Flywheel

Flywheel

12 Reviews and Ratings

IONOS Hosting

IONOS Hosting

17 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Flywheel	Score 9.9 out of 10	N/A	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.	$15 per month 1 site
IONOS Hosting	Score 8.2 out of 10	N/A	IONOS a provider of cloud infrastructure, cloud services, and hosting headquartered in Germany, boasting more than eight million customer contracts. They provide individual web services including SSL certificates (provided by GeoTrust True BusinessID) , domain registration services, website hosting, and managed hosting services supporting WordPress, VPS hosting, and ASP.NET hosting.	N/A

Pricing

Flywheel

IONOS Hosting

Editions & Modules

Tiny: $15.00
per month 1 site
Starter: $30.00
per month 1 site
Freelance: $115.00
per month up to 10 sites
Agency: $290.00
per month up to 30 sites
Custom: Contact sales team

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Flywheel	IONOS Hosting
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Discount available for annual pricing equal to about 2 months free.

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Flywheel	IONOS Hosting
Considered Both Products	Flywheel Duncan McMillan Director Chose Flywheel Linode and GoDaddy Incentivized Helpful? Jennifer Blair Creative Director and Owner Chose Flywheel Compared to WP Engine and Pantheon, Flywheel offers the most affordable and easy-to-use managed hosting platform for WordPress websites. I actually prefer Flywheel's UI a bit more to WP Engine's. Media Temple simply doesn't offer an affordable hosting option that particularly … Incentivized Helpful? Jonathan Teixeira Co-Founder Chose Flywheel I select Flywheel to host my site and my clients' sites because of how fast and reliable the service is. The tools are incredible and their local site program, Local, is head and shoulders above the competition. I tried Kinsta's program, but it felt slow and old compared to … Incentivized Helpful?	IONOS Hosting Ruby Javaid Chief Designer Chose IONOS Hosting iPage is terrible. They don't even really have a proper cPanel and GoDaddy is kind of hard to navigate once you log in. The DNS settings are not obvious and the interface is clunky and old looking. By comparison, 1&1 provides all the features you'd need to manage your domains … Incentivized Helpful? Elaine Truesdale Founder Chose IONOS Hosting Godaddy users seem to have more challenges with connecting their websites to their domain and customer service. Incentivized Helpful? Emily Preston Senior Internet Marketing Coordinator Chose IONOS Hosting Rackspace I find to be too pricey for the service they offer. Pagely is very much WordPress oriented. I've had downtime with both that I haven't experienced with 1&1. Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	Flywheel	IONOS Hosting
Small Businesses	SiteGround Score 9.8 out of 10	Shopify Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	WP Engine Score 8.9 out of 10	Shopify Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises	Pantheon Score 8.6 out of 10	No answers on this topic
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Flywheel	IONOS Hosting
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Flywheel	IONOS Hosting
Likelihood to Recommend	Flywheel is amazing for hosting Wordpress sites - that's all they do, and they do it well. Their setup is fast, secure, and easy to use. And their customer support is second to none. An amazing company to work with. We're happy to be customers. Incentivized Jonathan Teixeira Co-Founder Read full review	Reasonable pricing (SSL certificate for only $30! vs the usual $99), ease of use on the backend and/or dashboard, and reliable customer service, all make this a win in my book. And, of course, you can't beat the free private registration that comes with each domain purchase. I've been recommending 1&1 to all my clients for domain purchases for years. Incentivized Ruby Javaid Chief Designer Read full review
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 Incentivized Jennifer Blair Creative Director and Owner Read full review	Their uptime is outstanding. They have great customer support with real people. They have all the technologies available I need to run my website. Their dashboard is easy to use. Incentivized Emily P Senior Internet Marketing Coordinator Read full review
Cons	I'd like to see some more tools (flush cache, etc) available from inside the WP admin area Incentivized Jonathan Teixeira Co-Founder Read full review	From my experience, customer services does not know how to address issues in an understandable language I feel that they arbitrarily overcharge w/o any explanation In my opinion it is really pricey Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Reliability and Availability	No answers on this topic	In over 8 years of operations, we have not had a single outage that affected us. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Performance	No answers on this topic	The email system has not impeded out mail flow in any way, and we do not notice the delays we sometimes see with other systems that include spam/junk mail filtering. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Compared to WP Engine and Pantheon, Flywheel offers the most affordable and easy-to-use managed hosting platform for WordPress websites. I actually prefer Flywheel's UI a bit more to WP Engine's. Media Temple simply doesn't offer an affordable hosting option that particularly caters to WordPress websites. Flywheel has become my favorite among managed hosting platforms that are targeted on servicing WordPress developers. Incentivized Jennifer Blair Creative Director and Owner Read full review	Rackspace I find to be too pricey for the service they offer. Pagely is very much WordPress oriented. I've had downtime with both that I haven't experienced with 1&1. Incentivized Emily P Senior Internet Marketing Coordinator Read full review
Scalability	No answers on this topic	The scalability of the email solution far exceeds our needs and would be suitable for organizations not looking for an enterprise sized multipurpose solution (O365, Google Workspace, etc). Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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 Incentivized Duncan McMillan Director Read full review	1&1 host our email and domains adequately. We can easily add and remove emails as needed. 1&1 also works with our website platform, Memberclicks. Incentivized Elaine Truesdale Founder Read full review
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