When the Johnny server crashed we decided to give out free Morty trials to any affected users who wanted to get their website back online as soon as possible, since it would take a few weeks to get Johnny running again. We gave those free trials with no credit card required, no commitment, and without even a concrete end date for the trial, etc. Just HelioHost being generous, and trying to help people out like we always do.
We gave out about 50 trials with no expectations that anyone would pay to stay on Morty, and honestly we thought 100% of the free trials would just happily move back to Johnny without a single upgrade. We were completely shocked and overjoyed to see that we received nearly $100 of upgrades from the free trials for Johnny people.
The next round of free trials has begun, and this time around we're intentionally targeting businesses who are running their website on Tommy or Johnny. We've noticed that a lot of start-up entrepreneurs test out their website on our free hosting, with the intention of moving to AWS, or some other ridiculously expensive hosting option once they start to do some actual business. We figured it would be a good idea to show people that they don't have to leave HelioHost if they want blazing fast speeds and amazing uptime for their business.
Once again, no credit card is required, there is no commitment, and we don't even really have a concrete end date for the trial but we expect it to last a month or so for people to get a chance to test Morty out thoroughly. Honestly, most free trials are basically "if you forget to cancel we'll automatically bill you some ridiculously high price" which is just evil corporations trying to prey on forgetful people, so it's understandable that we've had a few skeptical people get upset about receiving a free trial. I refuse to accept any free trials like that because it's not worth the risk of forgetting to cancel and getting billed. This isn't one of those scams. If you forget about the trial, we'll just move you back to the plan you were on before without getting billed anything. No big deal.
If you're running a small business on Tommy or Johnny please contact us to let us know so we can get you a free trial as well, and make sure your business is being hosted on the plan that it needs to be on.