How to Install WordPress on FlyWheel Hosting?

Tired with the slow loading speed of your WordPress website?

Yes!

Managed WordPress Hosting will come to a rescue here which will provide better user experience compare to traditional hosting platforms. It’s definitely one of the best options to consider if your budget can stretch accordingly – the only question is which managed hosting provider to pick. 

FlyWheel Hosting is one of the best WordPress Managed Hosting available in the market. You can simply test the performance by creating a Demo WordPress website using our detailed guide below on “How to Install WordPress on FlyWheel Hosting?”

I have personally used FlyWheel as a hosting for my WordPress website for a complete 1 year and I am pretty much satisfied with the Speed, Performance, and Support provided by FlyWheel. Even they are capable of handling sudden traffic spikes due to viral blog posts that too without any additional cost.

How to Install WordPress on Flywheel?

A step-by-step guide to learn how to install WordPress using Flywheel as your hosting.

The WordPress Installation process with FlyWheel is quick and seamless (the process takes less than 5 minutes) and even their support team can help you in the process of installing WordPress if you don’t want to do it on your own.

Step 1: Signup for a free account on Flywheel Hosting

Before proceeding to install WordPress on FlyWheel, you need to signup for a free account on FlyWheel 

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Signup on FlyWheel Hosting

When you’ll click on the signup button in the top right corner of the FlyWheel website. You’ll be presented with a page to signup for the account where you’ll be asked to fill in the details as mentioned in the below screenshot.

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FlyWheel Hosting – Create your account

Once you fill in the details, you need to verify and confirm your email address with the email you received and then you need to login to your FlyWheel account.

After you’re logged in to your FlyWheel account, you’ll see the dashboard with the list of WordPress sites created ( i.e. empty list when you log in for the first time as you’ve not created any site yet ) and some essential options in the menu.

Now, to create your first site on FlyWheel, you need to click on the “New Site” or “Create A New Site” button in the top right section of the dashboard as shown in the below screenshot.

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FlyWheel Hosting – Dashboard

Once you click on the “Create New Site” button, you’ll be asked to fill in site details that are divided into 3 different sections.

  1. WordPress Site Details
  2. Create a new WordPress User
  3. How would you like to pay?

I’ll guide you through the process about what details are required to fill in and why?

WordPress Site Details

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FlyWheel Hosting – WordPress Site Details

Here, you need to fill in the site name and the temporary domain name of your site which must be unique. 

For example, if your site name is “My First Site”, then you can have the temporary domain name as myfirstsite or mfs (short abbreviated version).

Create a new WordPress User

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FlyWheel Hosting – Create a new WordPress User

Fill in the username and password as shown in the above screenshot to create a new user on your first WordPress site. This user will be having an administrator user role which will help you manage everything on your WordPress site. Also, you can create multiple users with administrator user roles once you’re logged in to your WordPress site.

How would you like to pay?

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FlyWheel Hosting – How would you like to pay?

Once you’ve filled the site and user details, then you’ll be asked with the option to perform the payment for the hosting. There are 3 modes of payments you can do for your hosting.

  1. I’ll pay now – This option will allow you to pay to make your site LIVE instantly.
  2. My client will pay later – This option is beneficial for freelancers or those who work with the client. It will help you to develop and show the changes on the WordPress site to your clients without you being paid for it until 15 days of the site creation and then you can send an invoice to your client email to pay for the hosting.
  3. Add it to a bulk plan – This option is for resellers or agencies who have already purchased a bulk plan and want to add the new site to that bulk plan.

Also, while selecting the payment option, you’re allowed to select the location of the data center where you want to host your site based on the nearest location. The default data center will be New York in the United States.

Here are the other data center options available on FlyWheel:

  1. New York – United States
  2. Canada
  3. European Union
  4. Singapore
  5. United Kingdom
  6. United States

After selecting the mode of payment, you can just click on the “Launch” button to start the process of creating your brand new first WordPress site on FlyWheel.

Conclusion

FlyWheel Hosting is one of the leading and emerging Managed WordPress Hosting who will take care of all the essential needs for your WordPress site. This includes incredible support, speed, scalability, and reliability. I’ve not felt any downtime during the period of 1 year with FlyWheel.

You might be wondering why I’ve moved to WPX Hosting is due to the fact that I want to try a new host so that I can introduce you to a new host and provide my review on that. I’ll be coming up with a detailed review of WPX Hosting as well as the FlyWheel.

Mehul Gohil
Mehul Gohil

Mehul Gohil is a Full Stack WordPress developer and an active member of the local WordPress community. For the last 10+ years, he has been developing custom WordPress plugins, custom WordPress themes, third-party API integrations, performance optimization, and custom WordPress websites tailored to the client's business needs and goals.

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