SlickStack Reviews

Summary: This is my minimal yet powerful tool that ensure that my site is online, secure and up to date! One time setup and then run forever... well not forever but at least until now without problems, and its almost 2 years!

Positive: It automatizes a lot of the processes while keeping everything up to date, secure and at hand. It is lightweight and gets not in the way which is also a very important aspect for a tool! Leaves you more time to focus on the Wordpress tier while knowing that the basis below is in good hands!

Negative: Shell/Script/Bash knowledge is required and there is a learning curve to it. There is no fancy-glancy interface but this I can note also as a pro ;-)

Summary: Free, extremely fast LEMP stack, Wordpress dedicated built with fool-proof scripts in mind. Great alternative to any other similar stack I used in the past.

Positive: The install was a breeze! The documentation and the wizard are extremely easy to follow.

Slickstack is fool-proof. Built with security in mind, lots of automated checks (including backups), easy to “get back to square one” if you miss or do something wrong, altought most certanly you won’t.

I managed to get a server up and running and get an almost perfect score on Pagespeed (the theme is also geavily optimized) in less than 1h.

The support is great and the best thing about it, the entire stack is free.

Tried easyengine, webinoly, or paid tools like Runcloud - Slickstack beat them hard.

Definitely recommend it if you need a stable LEMP stack, dedicated for Wordpress with security and all sorts of other improvements.

Negative: I have nothing to say far. Everything went well, the guys were very quick and supportive on Discord.

Summary: I got this software recommended by an expert and couldn’t be happier with its functionality highly recommended.

Positive: Makes it super easy to set up server configuration love this software thank you for developing this it’s the best.

Negative: Nothing in particular. Makes the entire process easy to setup.

Summary: Overall an amazing experience, I have found immediate results in speed and SEO. The support is great, if you ever run into issues you can always ask the maintainer for help. Everything is open source with a very strong focus on reliability and optimization. Just set and forget. I have moved all my existing websites over to using SlickStack and don't plan on changing. If anyone is on the fence about this, I say, take the leap. You wont regret it.

Positive: - Amazing performance
- Active development
- Automatic updates
- Stress free installation
- High quality standards
- Great Support

Negative: - While setup is great, it could be daunting for users that aren't familiar with command line.

Summary: I have tested many stacks with out of box configuration over the time. I only find SlickStack to be worthy. Rest of them put in a lot of dependencies (which brings in another set of bugs & security issues), proprietary stuff going berserk time to time and introducing new security holes and the tools they put in consuming too much of server resources.

Go for it!

Positive: Fast Server Stack.
No 3rd party/extra dependency (Reduces attack surface of security exploits or bugs).
Wordpress Focused.
Frequent Updates (New release every week).
User Feedback Oriented Product.
Great Support.

Negative: Documentation needs to be updated with latest features.

Summary: Ten out of ten for Jesse as developer and support for the product, and we would recommend his services and product knowledge to all who considers SlickStack and receive top support for the product.

Positive: This is not a product review, but a response to the work done by Jesse, author of SlickStack.io, who we had the fortune of contracting for a task we urgently needed to be done. We are very satisfied with SlickStack since moving our website to the new hosting service. Jesse was super professional in his dealing with us. He has not only helped us move our WP website from one of the big hosting services to a much faster and free service; he was also extremely helpful in reviewing our WP website and suggesting changes to function better. But since this job was completed months ago he was always available for assistance and solid advice with subsequent issues we have experienced while contracting other developers for different tasks. He never billed us for his sound advice and sharing his deep knowledge of WP and its inner workings. He is the professional developer that you can only dream of when you are looking for expert freelance work. We'll recommend Jesse without hesitation.

Negative: As a small company with limited budget it is a pity we can't afford Jessie's services full time. With SlickStack we can't find fault since implementation.

Summary: Overall the best way to bring your website up to speed with the latest bells and whistles, again great tech support and low monthly pricing.

Positive: SlickStack's creator, Jesse Nickles was a pleasure to work with from start to finish. He was honest, and very knowledgeable, super professional and fast and reliable.
Low monthly cost.

Negative: Did not experience any cons at this point. will add some when they might pop up :)

Summary: The performance is so much better. I am thrilled that the Google search will be faster. To have better performance means that I will have better sales.

Positive: My tech person that suggested this platform was right! The website responds faster, page to page. I also understand that the search on Google for my site will be better faster.

Negative: I haven't noticed any to date. The speed and performance is much better.

Summary: This is a great way to get super fast WP hosting.
I have tried every solution out there and SlickStack is amazing if you don't mind a bit of command line admin.

Positive: - Lightning fast stack using the latest best practices and tech
- Great support!
- Actively maintained
- Open source
- Free

Negative: - Users would benefit from some Linux experience but not required.

Summary: In my opinion SlickStack is the option to go for if you have basic linux knowledge and want to set up a WordPress website the quick and easy way.

Positive: Very easy to set things up!
Basically enter all the important informations when prompted, wait about 10-15 minutes and there you go, your WordPress site is up and running and fully functional.
Everything is very fast and working perfectly fine.

Negative: Honestly, I can't really think of any cons, it does what it's supposed to.

Summary: There is no easier, quicker way to deploy WordPress if you're semi competent at server admin etc. It's free, it's updated often, just try it (and forget about the dodgy alternatives that are just bloated laggy garbage)

Positive: Lightweight, incredibly quick. I am a WordPress developer and love showing off SlickStack working on a $5 a month server. I power a WooCommerce website with it that has over a million products. Server costs? $25 a month.

Negative: I like the idea behind the blacklist in general - far too many software companies are 'woke' and ruining the internet. But I would suggest perhaps making it more of a watchlist rather than blacklist i.e. show a warning rather than prevent. Otherwise, it sounds a bit preachy. That's my only negative.

Summary: I don't typically write reviews but I had to applaud this server script. I have had so many issues with my website over the years and switching to SlickStack has made a huge difference. It has also saved me a lot of time and money. SlickStack's creator, Jesse Nickles was a pleasure to work with from start to finish. He was honest, extremely helpful, professional, and very knowledgeable. He also explained everything to me very clearly and answered all my many questions (not everyone in this industry does that!). I recommend SlickStack without reservation, I just wish I had found it sooner!

Positive: Lightweight, super fast, and reasonably priced. The improvements this made on my site were instantaneous.

Negative: Honestly, I have not found any cons with SlickStack thus far. I am super happy with it.

Summary: Great. I will be using SlickStack as an alternative to Litespeed as from our testing it seems at the very least as fast if not better.

Positive: Swift support via Discord.
Constantly being developed to improve in any way possible
Fast and cheap deployment for people trying to have the best performance possible from a cheaper VPS or Dedicated server.

Negative: Sometimes difficult to see what changes have happened and what this means in the config files.
Smaller developer base so cant always get changes as quickly as i would like, however the changes are always taken into consideration.
Needed to rethink our plugin usage as we had previously used some of the Banned plugins. However the speed boost from removing these was obvious immediately.

Summary: This is by far the best LEMP stack ever. I am very satisfied, use it on >10 servers, works like a charm.

Positive: Fast, excellent and fast support, in line with modern software, regular updates, new features, active community.

Negative: Hmmm, sorry but at the moment i cannot think of any.

Summary: Simple to use, easy to manage and get support when needed - it has been the best one to use out of the several I tested.

Positive: Great out of the box setup, configureable with many options and security is the number one focus during setup, I haven't been able to find a similar one that sets up security automatically.

Negative: Need to let the user manage and update as required/when ready.