InMotion Hosting vs Flywheel WordPress Hosting

Flywheel vs. InMotion Hosting – Managed WordPress Hosting

Here’s a quick look at the main differences between Managed WordPress Hosting at InMotion Hosting vs Flywheel.

• InMotion Hosting offers Managed WordPress on either Shared servers or fully isolated VPS with NVMe SSD. In contrast, Flywheel relies on traditional SSDs.
• Unlimited bandwidth is included in our UltraStack 6GB RAM Managed WordPress plans and above. Unfortunately, Flywheel offers up to 500GB of bandwidth.
• We use a custom operating system stack, UltraStack, to optimize our web hosting caching system. This system includes NGINX, Redis, and PHP-FPM Handlers.
• InMotion Hosting offers website caching options with W3 Total Cache, unlike Flywheel.
• PageSpeed Pros is an additional service included in top-tie managed WordPress plans. We can audit and optimize your website performance for you.
• InMotion Hosting provides better website security with a Web Application Firewall and Free DDoS protection. Flywheel does not include either option with its plans.
• Unlike Flywheel, Customers at InMotion hosting receive a Free Dedicated IP with their managed WordPress Plans.
• Flywheel charges for a performance analytics add-on, but InMotion includes performance analytics and site health monitoring with Managed WordPress plans.
• Email Management is included with InMotion Hosting’s WordPress service, but not at FlyWheel.
• Domain registration and premium DNS management can be done with InMotion Hosting WordPress plans. Unfortunately, Flywheel does not provide these options.
• InMotion Hosting’s 90-day money-back guarantee for annual plans gives you time to test the quality of our services. Flywheel offers 60 days.
• We are 100% employee-owned and we own our servers. As a result, we can directly manage server performance to accommodate changing customer needs, offer more bandwidth, and lock down security.

Keep reading to learn how InMotion’s Managed WordPress Hosting compares to Flywheel. 

Faster WordPress Performance

InMotion Hosting is the go-to choice for fast and performance-driven hosting because our server infrastructure is built to deliver content in milliseconds. Moreover, we ensure all green Core Web Vital scores on our proprietary UltraStack configurations, powered by NVMe SSD storage.

NVMe

We are proud to be an industry leader in NVMe Hosting. NVMe SSD hardware offers faster data transfer rates between storage and server hardware. As a result, hosting on NVMe drives improves the overall performance of your website.

Maximizing website performance improves your website’s visitor experience. Indeed, NVMe hardware allows websites to instantly serve text and rich media to visitors up to 40x faster than websites hosted on traditional SSDs or HDDs.

Flywheel plans do not offer NVMe SSDs. However, InMotion Hosting offers up to 400GB of NVMe storage on our Managed WordPress Hosting plans.

UltraStack

UltraStack is InMotion Hosting’s custom operating system stack, optimized for speed. Specifically, it provides powerful caching options and leverages open-source technology such as NGINX, Apache, and PHP-FPM.

UltraStack intelligently caches frequently used resources and saves them in memory so you can access them faster.

Hence, these caching systems use fewer resources and reduce the load on your WordPress server. WordPress pages load faster with zero server latency and support a more responsive admin dashboard.

Unlimited Bandwidth

Unlike Flywheel, InMotion Hosting’s advantages include unlimited bandwidth on its higher-tiered plans.

Unlimited Bandwidth provides valuable benefits:

• Scalability: Unlimited bandwidth can accommodate traffic spikes without additional costs or performance issues.
• Reliability: Your website is always available regardless of user volume.
• Cost-Effectiveness: No longer worry about bandwidth overage fees or upgrades.

Website Security & Reliability

InMotion Hosting’s Managed WordPress plans include a dedicated IP address, a robust firewall setup, and protection from DDoS attacks. Paired with fully isolated virtual private servers, you can trust your website is secure with InMotion Hosting.

Fully-Isolated VPS

Our Managed WordPress plans on Platform InMotion are exclusively hosted on fully-isolated VPS environments. For this reason, all resources, tools, and analytics focus on your website.

Platform InMotion servers are:

• Completely Isolated Containers (LXC)
• Easily Scalable
• Use Triple Failover Redundancy
• Free of cPanel server bloat

Free DDoS Protection

DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) protection is a security feature included with all InMotion Hosting’s WordPress plans. Yet, you may see this feature missing in Flywheel’s site security.

DDoS protection keeps your sites online and accessible during an attack. As a result, you can continue your business, protect customer data, and maintain visitor satisfaction.

Without protection, your website may slow down or become unresponsive. Thus, risking revenue loss and reputation damage.

But, not at InMotion Hosting. Our customers can rest easy with free DDoS Protection.

ModSecurity

ModSecurity is a web application firewall (WAF) that protects your website from cyber threats.

ModSecurity’s engine deploys in your web server to detect potential threats. The engine then scans HTTP communications and applies user-configured rules to handle them.

Not only does ModSecurity strengthen server security, but it also gives you flexibility and control over

• Real-time security monitoring
• Passive security assessments
• Logging and filtering HTTP traffic

In contrast, Flywheel does not provide a robust Web Application Firewall to protect your website.

Free Dedicated IPs

InMotion Hosting includes a free dedicated IP in our Managed WordPress plans. But, Flywheel does not.

A dedicated IP assigns a unique address to your websites and is crucial for a secure SSL certificate.

Dedicated IP addresses ensure that customer data is encrypted and protected. Therefore, enhancing your reputation and the security of your online business.

eCommerce Ready

Our Managed WordPress plans are designed to be eCommerce friendly. No matter what kind of online store you run, your WordPress plan is built to deliver fast frontend and backend experiences, especially with WooCommerce.

In fact, at InMotion Hosting, you can expect

• Fully-isolated cloud servers
• Caching profiles for fast load times
• Dedicated IP address
• Free SSL

Developer Friendly

With our WordPress hosting plan, professional developers, new freelancers, and small business owners get all-encompassing features to customize and integrate into any business-class WordPress hosting website.

Features include:

• Scalable SSD NVMe storage
• SFTP and SSH Root Access
• Dedicated Opcode Cache Pool
• Brotli Compression
• Advanced server caching
• Email creation and management
• Linux platform powered by NGINX
• PHP 8.1, PHP 8.2, PHP 8.3 and Database access

Root Access

Root access grants you unparalleled control and flexibility of your hosting environment. Specifically, with root access, users can tailor their web hosting environment to their needs, including:

• Installing custom software
• Optimizing server configurations
• Adding advanced security measures

This level of control is invaluable for developers, advanced users, or those with unique requirements.

Agency Program

InMotion Hosting provides a special Agency Program for groups that need WordPress hosting. After qualifying you can access a central dashboard to manage everything, including your team and clients.

Additionally, qualified Agencies receive $1,000 in free hosting credits with extra discounts for:

• Top-tier hosting plans
• Consultation time with our Web Performance Experts
• Extra server purchases

This program, thus, provides Agencies with everything they need for WordPress hosting in one convenient package, with plenty of savings and support.

Excellent Support and Guarantee

Part of our mission at InMotion Hosting is to ensure 100% customer satisfaction. So, we start by offering a satisfaction guarantee on our products and 24/7 support from a team of highly-trained web hosting experts.

PageSpeed Pros

InMotion Hosting offers customers a speed optimization service called PageSpeed Pros. Our team of WordPress experts audits your top pages for opportunities to improve your core web vitals.

We then ensure the best site performance by helping you leverage our UltraStack VPS technologies to optimize your page speed.

For example, we increased site performance for Amacor Printz by 153%. This includes page speeds clocking in at 3.1 seconds on mobile and 0.7 seconds on desktop.

The PageSpeed Pros service is complimentary to customers on our top-tier Managed WordPress plans. After our audit, we give you the choice to take the wheel or let us optimize for you while you focus on your business.

Money-Back Guarantee

Our Platform InMotion WordPress plans come with a 30-day money-back guarantee for monthly plans, and a 90-day money-back guarantee for yearly plans. In contrast, Flywheel offers a 60-day money-back guarantee.

Our industry-leading money-back guarantee reflects our commitment to customer satisfaction. Accordingly, we promise reliable hosting, skilled help, and excellent service for everything we offer.

U.S.-Based Support

All our products include live, 24/7/365 U.S.-based customer support. We keep an eye on your website and data while working on improving your web hosting so you can rest easy.

Our web hosting experts have years of experience. Additionally, all support team members undergo a rigorous internal training program. Training covers technical subjects such as WP-CLI, Linux, NGINX, and more.

After 280+ hours of training, our support team is ready to deliver top-notch customer service.

Global Presence

With its global reach, InMotion Hosting offers superior web hosting services to clients overseas. Customers with an international presence or global audience enjoy more localized data centers. As a result, they experience less latency and better website speed.

Further, GDPR compliance enhances your data privacy and can assist your websites to meet these requirements too.

International Data Center

Both InMotion Hosting and Flywheel house their servers in international data centers. However, unlike Flywheel, we have full ownership over our servers and access to our server locations. This puts us in a unique position to better accommodate our customers.

Owning our servers gives us complete control to implement tighter security and monitoring to enhance the protection of your data. We can, therefore, directly optimize our servers to meet our customers’ needs for performance and scalability. Moreover, if a customer goes over their bandwidth, we can accommodate them.

In contrast, Flywheel is owned by WP Engine, and they rely on AWS and Google for their server infrastructure. This makes them inflexible in managing server-side issues that impact their ability to provision dedicated IPs and scalability.

Employee-Owned

As a 100% employee-owned company, InMotion Hosting puts your needs first. We base our decisions on what is best for you, without any influence from external stakeholders or focusing only on the bottom line.

Remaining employee-owned allows us to mold our business around your needs, ensuring reliable services.

Switch to InMotion Hosting

At InMotion Hosting, we offer web hosting services that are reliable, fast, and cared for by teams of highly skilled technical experts. As a result, your visitors will have a smooth experience with 99.9% uptime on your website. Plus, assistance is easy to find with our 24/7 support team waiting on the sidelines whenever needed.

If you’re unsatisfied with your Flywheel services, then it’s time to switch to InMotion Hosting.

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