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Flywheel

Flywheel is a managed WordPress host built for web designers, freelancers and agencies, now run as a WP Engine brand.

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Flywheel is a managed WordPress host built for web designers, freelancers and agencies. Started in Omaha, Nebraska, it was acquired by WP Engine in 2019 and runs as a WP Engine brand, keeping its own dashboard, plans and workflow. Sites run on Google Cloud behind a Fastly CDN, from data centres in North America, the UK, the EU and Australia.

The product is shaped around client work: billing transfer to the client, collaborator roles, reusable site blueprints, demo sites and the free Local app for building WordPress offline. Plans are fixed tiers bundling staging, nightly backups with a retention window and SSL. As on most managed WordPress hosts, a list of plugins is disallowed — mostly caching, backup and security plugins that clash with the platform’s own stack — and shell access runs through a restricted gateway rather than a full shell.

Identity

Founded
2012
Reach
1,2841
Ownership
Subsidiary
Parent
WP Engine
Status
Active

Regions and law

Headquarters
United States

Sources

  1. 2026-09-07Reach
    majestic.com/reports/majestic-million
  2. 2026-08-01Starting price, Entry price, Typical ceiling, Currencies, Billed, Pricing model, Backups
    getflywheel.com/pricing/
  3. 2026-08-02Paid, Exit
    wpengine.com/legal/terms-of-service/
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