FlywheelReviews of getflywheel.com

This hosting company was great to start with and then as we used them as an agency, we quickly found that the servers are not fit for purpose. The servers don't have enough power to update plugins without crashing the entire website. The absolute reason for this poor review, however, is that they lock down a lot of the core WP files so when you want to leave, it's incredibly difficult. Our new hosting company tried for a week to get sites away and couldn't without using migration plugins. This resulted in having to use their services for more time while we got all 50 of our websites off. Their tactic seems to be to make it incredibly hard to leave so you have to pay for more time with them. This was all relayed to our client handler who didn't seem to care at all. I would say ok for hosting one small site. Agencies should avoid at all costs.

Really slow hosting

Unsolicited spam, would never use or recommend them based just on that

I cannot understand how or where these negative reviews have come from. Are we talking about the same company? Because they opened, responded twice to, and then closed a support ticket in the space of 20 minutes for issues we were having with our site domain. Job done. Support and sales teams are both quick and efficient and even threw a few perks in there to sweeten the deal. We were with Bluehost before and the speeds are night and day with Flywheel, with our 2nd website averaging a 1 second load time! Easy to use platform, and looks to be a company that are constantly on the innovation path. Best decision we ever made was switching to Flywheel.

It's not even worth it to write a review for them. All sites are performing so much better after we've switched to a different company.

I got hacked multiple times which led to terrible SEO implications. Each time, I would update all the plugins and themes, their teams would run an automated and manual scan, and I was assured that my site was "clean." The hack just came back each and every time over the course of 6 months. I've just canceled and have moved over to Webflow. The customer service agents were kind and helpful, but their malware scan processes are not thorough at all. I was very clear that I needed a deep review and I had to insist on multiple scans when they "missed" many compromised files the first time. After the third hack, I had to go into FTP myself to try to clean up the site since they don't react quickly. Not recommended at all if you want reliable "managed" hosting. Please save yourselves the trouble and go elsewhere.

Do not use this hosting company. Its total scam 1- They do not provide you cPanel 2- They will not show you the wp-content folder if you try to access files via the file manager plugin 3- Only way to upload or download files or plugins is FTP 4- ftp is very slow to upload 1 plugin it will take 6 hours. Pure scam

I have had my company site hosted with these guys for a little while now, they have been prompt with any technical help, server speeds have been good and Win has been exceptionally awesome with advice and help. I would recommend them as a hosting provider.