Flywheel vs. Hostinger

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Flywheel and Hostinger compared across Company facts, Pricing, Performance & infrastructure, WordPress management, Support & security and Platform & integrations — every fact sourced and re-verified from each vendor's public material.

Flywheel

Managed WordPress hosting built for designers and creative agencies; now part of WP Engine.

HQ Austin, TX

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Hostinger

Low-cost managed WordPress and shared hosting with an in-house hPanel control panel.

HQ Kaunas, Lithuania

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Flywheel

Hostinger

Company facts

Headquarters

Austin, TX Flywheel is a WP Engine product; WP Engine is headquartered in Austin, TX

Kaunas, Lithuania Headquartered in Kaunas, Lithuania

Employees

1.1k Headcount of parent company WP Engine (~1,100 globally)

900 Around 900 employees (company-stated)

Pricing

Starting Monthly Price (USD)

$25 Starter plan billed monthly; $300/yr (2 months free) if annual

$10.99 Premium plan; intro $2.99/mo on a 48-month term

Entry Plan WordPress Sites

1 sites 1 WordPress site on the Starter plan

3 sites Up to 3 websites on the Premium plan

Entry Plan Monthly Visits

25k 25,000 monthly visits on the Starter plan

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Entry Plan Storage (GB)

10 GB 10 GB disk on the Starter plan

20 GB 20 GB SSD on the Premium plan

Free Trial Length (Days)

0 days No free trial; free demo sites and a 60-day money-back guarantee instead

0 days No free trial; 30-day money-back guarantee instead

Money-Back Guarantee (Days)

60 days 60-day money-back guarantee (excludes Agency and Custom plans)

30 days 30-day money-back guarantee

Performance & infrastructure

Underlying Cloud

Google Cloud Runs on the Google Cloud Platform

own datacenters Custom-built servers in Hostinger's own Tier-3 datacenters

Datacenter Locations

5 5 data center regions worldwide

12 12 datacenter locations across 4 continents

Free CDN

Free global CDN powered by Fastly on all plans

Free CDN included from the Business plan up, not on entry Premium

Web Server

NGINX NGINX serving static files and reverse-proxying PHP-FPM

LiteSpeed LiteSpeed web server with LiteSpeed Cache (LSCache)

Built-in Object Cache

Page caching only (FlyCache); no persistent object cache

Object Cache (LSMCD) available from the Business plan up, not on entry Premium

Latest PHP Version

8.2 PHP 8.2 (default for new sites); 7.4 also selectable

8.5 PHP selectable up to 8.5 (8.3 default)

Free SSL Certificate

Free Let's Encrypt SSL (Simple SSL) with any plan

Free unlimited lifetime SSL (auto-provisioned and renewed)

WordPress management

Automatic WordPress Updates

Automatic major and minor WordPress core updates

Automatic WordPress core updates managed by the host

Staging Environments

One-click staging sites included on all plans

Built-in WordPress staging available from the Business plan up, not on entry Premium

Automatic Daily Backups

Automatic nightly backups with one-click restore

Entry Premium plan has weekly auto backups; daily backups start at the Business plan

Backup Retention (Days)

30 days 30 days of nightly backups retained

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Free Site Migration

Free site migrations included

Free unlimited automated WordPress migrations

SSH & WP-CLI Access

SSH gateway with WP-CLI on all Cloud Platform sites

SSH access with WP-CLI pre-installed on Premium and above

WordPress Multisite Support

Multisite requires Freelance, Agency, or Custom plan; not on the entry Starter plan

WordPress Multisite officially supported on managed WordPress plans

Support & security

Uptime SLA (%)

99.9% 99.9% uptime

99.9% 99.9% uptime guarantee

24/7 Support

24/7/365 chat support on all plans

24/7 live chat support on all plans (priority support on Cloud)

Malware Removal / Hack Fix

Free malware cleanup / hack fix if your site is infected on-platform

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WAF / DDoS Protection

Fastly-based WAF and DDoS protection at the edge, included on all plans

In-house WAF + Cloudflare-nameserver DDoS protection on all plans

Platform & integrations

Control Panel

custom Custom Flywheel dashboard (replaces cPanel)

custom hPanel, Hostinger's in-house control panel

White-Label / Agency Features

Billing transfer to clients, collaborators, and multi-site management for agencies

Hostinger Pro: unified multi-site dashboard with unbranded (white-label) client dashboards and per-site client access

Email Hosting Included

No email hosting; Flywheel recommends a dedicated provider like Google Workspace

Free email mailboxes included (2 per website on Premium, free for 1 year)

The verdict

Flywheel

Best for managed-WP workflow tooling at the entry tier

Flywheel bundles developer and agency workflow features into its $25/mo Starter plan that Hostinger gates behind higher tiers: one-click staging, automatic daily backups (30-day retention), and a free Fastly CDN are all included from the entry plan, where Hostinger's Premium has only weekly backups, no staging, and no free CDN. It also adds a 60-day money-back window versus Hostinger's 30.

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Hostinger

Best for low cost, multiple sites, and bundled email

Hostinger's Premium plan is $10.99/mo versus Flywheel's $25, and hosts up to 3 sites with 20 GB storage against Flywheel's 1 site and 10 GB. It includes email hosting and WordPress Multisite, both absent on Flywheel's entry plan, plus a newer PHP 8.5 (vs 8.2) and 12 datacenter locations to Flywheel's 5. The trade-off is weekly-only backups and no entry-tier staging or free CDN.

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