FlyWheel vs Staq

Value, Power, Transparency

See why Ex-FlyWheel customers love Staq. Staq delivers more value for money, more resources and raw power and better transparency.

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Why choose Staq over FlyWheel?

Escape the forever addon costs of FlyWheel and see how we offer a stronger value proposition that makes it the #1 alternative to FlyWheel.

FlyWheel Staq
Business Model FlyWheel pushes you to pay per server Staq charges per site
Data Resources Shared billing for account Isolated per site
Environment type Shared hosting Isolated per site
PHP Workers Not disclosed. Rumoured to be 3-5 PHP Workers 10. Scalable to more.
Scalable Hosting No Yes
WooCommerce Yes, same price Yes, same price
Debug Application Performance Yes Free
Staging Yes Yes
WordPress Env. Spin Up 10 Minutes (Average) 60 Seconds
Plugin Manager for manual updates No Yes and free
Automated Plugin Updates Paid add-on Yes and free
Update plugins globally in one click No Yes
Regression Testing Yes, visual testing only. Yes. Examines error logs
Websites Table Yes Yes
Client PDF Reports Paid add-on Yes
Automated Backups Daily Daily and offloaded to AWS S3
DNS No Yes
CDN Yes, via Fastly Yes, via AWS CloudFront. Or integrate your Cloudflare account
Site Monitoring Paid add-on Free
Firewall Limited free option. Additional paid add-on Free
Global Edge Security No Free
Block Bots attacking forms No Yes
Plugin/Theme Vulnerability Alerts No Yes
Malware Scanner No Yes
Cache Yes Free – Staq Cache
Core Web Vitals tools No Free – Staq Optimizer
Image Optimization No Free – Staq Optimizer with WebP conversion
Global CDN No Free: Powered by AWS
Redis Object Cache No Yes
Billing System Paid add-on via FlyWheel Yes, free
White Label No Yes

MAKING THE SWITCH

Big Savings Moving From FlyWheel!

Our Why

  • With Staq, both hosting and management tools compare together in harmony with the hosting environment and the AWS network to avoid CPU-intensive workloads.
  • Staq reduces your plugin count, subscription costs, and most importantly, elevate your productivity and centralize everything in one place.
  • Scale a website's resources rather than scale a server to save costs.
  • Free staging sites with your production environment
  • Up to 90 days free for a brand new site when it's in dev mode

Welcome to WordPress, simplified!

One platform to replace them all

Enjoy hosting, management, tools, security, performance, updates, and billing all in one easy platform.

Staq helps you

Consolidate tools.
Cut costs.
Enhance efficiency.

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REVIEWS

Why Agencies love Staq.

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When I found Staq, I knew I had found the gold. Super fast, reliable, amazing support and cutting edge tech make it the best in the world in my opinion.
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- Jono Farrington, Silicon Dales Australia

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We love everything about Staq! What we love the most is how easy it is to use. Everything is under one roof and our team's efficiency has improved. They have automated tools that we love.
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- Nathan Trelease, Creative Serum, Australia

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Before, my customer would pay for their hosting. Now, with WPStaq, I can create a subscription plan for them, I can then manage it and make money off from the hosting service myself.
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- Michael Anastasiou, Adelaide SEO Marketing, Australia

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Your system runs so smoothly. It's clear where everything is. Appreciate you going over and above with your service. Has helped cement the fact that you care about your customers. Goes a long way!

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- Ryan Hudson, Hello Hudson, Australia

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Staq has saved my ass and business. After a hacking scare with my old host, I now have peace of mind knowing that my client sites are protected with Staq. No more shared hosting for me!
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- Lachlan McMutrie, Yeah Marketing, Australia

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We're so grateful for coming across Staq. I feel like our lives as a creative design studio is much easier. Mainly because we can focus on what we like doing and instead of focusing on trying to juggle all these pieces.
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- Terri Williams, Studio Sondar, Australia

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