Duncan McMillan
Director
Chose Flywheel
Linode and GoDaddy
Flywheel vs. Kinsta
Flywheel vs. Kinsta
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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 Flywheel | 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 | |
 Kinsta | Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees) | Kinsta offers WordPress hosting with daily backups, Cloudflare integration, and 24/7 human-only support available in 10 languages. Boasting users among more than 120,000 businesses in over 128 countries, Kinsta helps to keep sites running smoothly wherever they're accessed and is SOC 2 audited and ISO 27001 certified to meet rigorous standards for security and data protection. | $7 per month 0.3 CPU, 0.3GB RAM |
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| Considered Both Products |  Flywheel  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 …  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 … |  Kinsta  Simon Harper Business Owner Chose Kinsta Whilst SiteGround can be cheaper, it uses a lower-tier Google Cloud server infrastructure for hosting compared to Kinsta. SiteGround's support is inferior (it used to be very good) and the new SiteGround UI is not as easy to use or as intuitive as Kinsta. SiteGround also does …  David R Munson Photographer Chose Kinsta GoDaddy is the one that drove me nuts. Downtime, poor performance, abysmal customer service. I switched to Kinsta because they looked like they’d do right everything GoDaddy did wrong (and they have). Hostinger is a company whose services I still use and am pleased with them. …  Mike Cliffe Jones Managing Director Chose Kinsta We previously used Inmotion Hosting and found their performance, which initially was good, fell away over the years.  Chevas Balloun Owner Principal Chose Kinsta Kinsta is the best. There are no alternatives that compare. Someone inside of Kinsta is actually running business development to improve the experience from the bottom position up to the top. There is literally no comparison.  Robb Fahrion Partner and Co-Founder Chose Kinsta GoDaddy is absolute trash compared to Kinsta Hosting. GoDaddy is the classic case of great marketing, poor service, and even poorer value. I feel bad any time I find a client or someone else using a service like GoDaddy instead of a premium product like Kinsta. The price …  Tammy Slauenwhite Owner Chose Kinsta There is no comparison between Just Host and Kinsta. It's like going from driving a junky old sluggish car to driving a brand new fully-loaded race car. Kinsta is so much better, in every way imaginable. Now that I'm with Kinsta, I see the difference and I'll go back to cheap …  Clayton Emmer Associate Manager Web and Digital Chose Kinsta The performance of our sites on Kinsta has been an enormous improvement over our prior hosting solution. Also, the admin tools (and the UI that supports it) are far superior.  Shane Bill Software Engineer Chose Kinsta Both of these two competitors provide different options in terms of comparison to Kinsta. EasyWP is a cheaper option but I have found with shared hosting that our company has spent way more time debugging strange issues b/c of the limitations of shared hosting. We are either …  Matthew Lundh Cofounder Chose Kinsta From a pricing standpoint, Kinsta is a deal that we haven't found can be beat. They are always innovating and adding features to their service, they aren't as inflexible and rigid as many hosted services are. Kinsta often reaches out for feedback, feature requests and including … |
| Flywheel | Kinsta | |
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| Small Businesses |  SiteGround Score 9.8 out of 10 | SiteGround Score 9.8 out of 10 |
| Medium-sized Companies |  WP Engine Score 8.9 out of 10 | WP Engine Score 8.9 out of 10 |
| Enterprises |  Pantheon Score 8.6 out of 10 | Pantheon Score 8.6 out of 10 |
| All Alternatives | View all alternatives | View all alternatives |
| Flywheel | Kinsta | |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 10.0 (0 ratings) | 8.8 (0 ratings) |
| Likelihood to Renew | - (0 ratings) | 10.0 (0 ratings) |
| Usability | - (0 ratings) | 10.0 (0 ratings) |
| Availability | - (0 ratings) | 10.0 (0 ratings) |
| Performance | - (0 ratings) | 10.0 (0 ratings) |
| Support Rating | - (0 ratings) | 10.0 (0 ratings) |
| Implementation Rating | - (0 ratings) | 10.0 (0 ratings) |
| Configurability | - (0 ratings) | 8.0 (0 ratings) |
| Ease of integration | - (0 ratings) | 9.0 (0 ratings) |
| Product Scalability | - (0 ratings) | 9.0 (0 ratings) |
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Jonathan Teixeira Co-Founder |
Mike Cliffe Jones Managing Director |
| Pros |
Jennifer Blair Creative Director and Owner |
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| Cons |
Jonathan Teixeira Co-Founder |
Simon Harper Business Owner |
| Likelihood to Renew | No answers on this topic |
Shane Bill Software Engineer |
| Usability | No answers on this topic |
Shane Bill Software Engineer |
| Reliability and Availability | No answers on this topic |
Shane Bill Software Engineer |
| Performance | No answers on this topic |
Shane Bill Software Engineer |
| Support Rating | No answers on this topic |
Matthew Lundh Cofounder |
| Implementation Rating | No answers on this topic |
Shane Bill Software Engineer |
| Alternatives Considered |
Jennifer Blair Creative Director and Owner |
Simon Harper Business Owner |
| Scalability | No answers on this topic |
Shane Bill Software Engineer |
| Return on Investment |
Duncan McMillan Director |
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| ScreenShots | Kinsta Screenshots |