Local by Flywheel VS A2Hosting

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1. Paul Rowe    

   System Administrator at Bangles | over 1 year ago
   Good hosting service

   Pros: - Great hosting plans, especially for WordPress - Outstanding client service - Fantastic uptime - Excellent money-back return policy

   Cons: - Comparatively pricey

   👍 Pros:    Great customer support|High uptime|Money back guarantee

   👎 Cons:    Pricy

Local by Flywheel mentions (227)

• Introducing WP Setup

  Developing WordPress plugins and themes often requires a reliable development environment. Current we have good solutions as wp-env from Autommatic, Local WP from WP Engine, Docker, XAMPP (for old ones) and so on. All this can be good suits for a development environment, specially Local WP that is probably the easiest one to get up and running and wp-env that leverages Docker as a development environment in a very... - Source: dev.to / 28 days ago

• Self hosting wordpress for testing

  Personally if you’re on windows I like using localwp (localwp.com) from wheelfly / wpengine it lets you quickly spin up multiple sites, duplicate them, test mail, one click admin, etc. Its helped me prototype multiple websites over the last year faster than I ever did manually setting up Wordpress instances on vms or docker. Source: 5 months ago

• WordPress in Linux

  Adding to the above recommendations, you could also try Local by Flywheel: https://localwp.com/. Source: 5 months ago

• Is there any training program on basic PHP for WordPress?

  IMHO Don't worry about the Flywheel environment that's referred to in in the course, just use Local WP to provision a local hosting environment https://localwp.com/ – or MAMP or whatever you prefer – and go from there. Source: 9 months ago

• Is there a "For Dummies" explanation of using PHPStorm from Win10 and Xdebug remotely?

  I tried to set things up locally with Local, but man was that slow and the available components (like PHP) are not the same version as on the production server so I worry about compatibility. Source: 10 months ago

A2Hosting mentions (3)

• Cheap domain?

  Either way you'll end up using a host like a2hosting.com (search for "a2hosting comparison" to find other hosts) which let you put up your own web pages because listing domains only on Afternic, Sedo, GoDaddy, etc., still doesn't give you much more visibility than posting them as For Sale on which ever domain name service/registrar you choose, which in itself gives you little visibility except to sharks who cruise... Source: 5 months ago

• Need to move site from bluehost to a quicker wordpress hosting platform with an easy to use UI - what should I pick?

  The sidebar has plenty of hosts for you to choose from. Additionally, I personally use A2 hosting (https://a2hosting.com) for my hosting needs. They've been a pleasure to work with over the last few years. Source: about 2 years ago

• Every web hosting I try is either jank or too advanced.

  a2hosting is fast, but pretty expensive. Source: over 2 years ago