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We have a list of some WordPress alternatives on our Wiki here: https://wiki.helionet.org/WordPress#WordPress_Alternatives that may help you find something that suits you.

You can post a topic asking for a domain or the like to be redacted, but it really doesn't make much sense. DNS will show where a domain is hosted unless (quite-significant, especially if email is needed) effort is made to completely hide where the site is hosted. Even then, attackers don't necessarily care where it's hosted, as most attackers are just using bots that go looking for things like unpatched Wordpress installations to break into...those methods of compromising a site are mostly the same regardless of hosting company, and the mitigations are also mostly the same (install updates when they come out, don't use software from dubious websites, etc.)

Hey all, thanks for the replies! Deeply respect the volunteer work you do here and 100% support the goal/ethos of community-based forums. I guess my concern is born from a site security perspective, although I may be naive? In my particular case, the indexed content is the "domain addition request" requested by helios, which seemed a more ticket/procedural type of content, vs a helpful knowledge base question? But when indexed, the result is a sort of ghost whois entry made public, showing who's tied to the domain, where it's hosted, etc. This just felt a little too revealing, but I'm sorta new to this! My original sense was the initial request to create a un/pw for the forum meant forum content was gated (to forum members). But that is 100% my misunderstanding having now read the wiki. (Also my fault for picking a UN that matches my domain..) So with all that said, where should a user make a request to have content considered for deletion? Is that a direct message process? Thanks!

This is exactly the behavior we hope for. Since we're a small non-profit powered by donations and run by volunteers we don't have a staff of full time employees writing and maintaining a knowledge base or similar documentation, nor do we have a full time staff of paid employees answering user questions. The whole concept of HelioHost is to be a community of web hosting developers helping each other with questions, and helping each other learn. The most helpful users get offered a promotion to enable them to help others even better. All of our volunteers, myself included, started out as regular users who read other people's questions and decided to start helping others out without being asked to or paid to. If all of our forum posts are hidden and only admins can see them then it defeats the entire process, and would block anyone from learning from each other or even having an opportunity to help each other. Another consideration is since we are a small non-profit powered by donations we don't have enough money to afford advertising, so the only way people will even find us is via free sources such as search engine results, or 5 star reviews. For instance, maybe someone out there had the same issue as you, and stumbles on your solution that was posted on our forum, not only do they find out how to fix the same issue that they're having, but they may start looking around our website and realize that we can host their website for them too, etc. Another thing I want to mention is how the recent obsession with "privacy" hurts the internet as a whole. 10 years ago Reddit used to be a really great resource of community based help for common issues. Fast forward to 2026, and I refuse to even click Reddit links in search engine results because the plague of redaction has made Reddit, not only completely useless, but a frustrating waste of time to even look at, due to everyone constantly deleting our replacing their helpful posts with random gibberish. I understand stuff like "oops I accidentally posted my email address, and now I'm getting tons of spam", but removing helpful information that benefits everyone is just cruel. I honestly think Reddit should start banning people who redact their posts like that.

No. Users cannot delete their own content. We can hide topics from visibility on our side, but you would have to request that individual topics be hidden. Generally, the idea is that topics are left in place so others can learn from people's experiences. It is possible to request we delete the forum account without affecting the hosting account, however having a forum account that matches your hosting account makes support much easier if you ever need it.

Thank you MoneyBoz. The site is a personal blog which doesn't get many visits... so the problem was due to the backup I uploaded yesterday. I've been hosting my personal blog with you for a long time (I think about 10 years now), and the performance problems started appearing with the latest WordPress updates. I'll try to find other alternatives to WordPress. Best Regards,

Also WordPress is notorious for being resource heavy.

Your account was suspended for causing high server load. I have unsuspended your account, but please try to limit the load you put on our servers as it slows down not only your site, but the sites of all other HelioHost users sharing your server. If you need help figuring out why your site is causing such high load let us know and we can try to help. If the high load is simply because your site is getting a lot of traffic, you might want to consider purchasing a VPS instead. VPS hosting gives you an entire virtual server to yourself, including no load limits, a dedicated IP address, and full root access.

Hello, My account was suspended: Username: raqbul Server: johnny Domain: bulnesabogada.es.eu.org Yesterday, I upload a backup of my old site (an instance of Wordpress) to extract some content, but every time I tried to access it, I got an 504 error. Today I try again, but got a message about suspended account by a high load. So I think the yesterday's 504 error was due to this and the backup could have been compromised and hacked. Could you please unsuspend my account? Best Regards,

We don't consider usernames or posts to be personal information. You can find more details here: https://wiki.helionet.org/FAQ#How_does_community-powered_support_work? As for deleting your forum account without affecting your hosting account, that's a good question for an administrator.

Thank you so much! Have a nive day...

Hi, Noticed a post made here appears in search engine results (at least for Google). This is unexpected behavior —I'd like to avoid public-facing discussion/information tied to my accounts. So I guess I have two questions: Can users delete posts/content, or can heliohos, if requested? (I couldn't see where to do it if so..) Can users delete Forum/HelioNet accounts without affecting login/account credentials for heliohost? Thanks!

Looks like wolstech already added this domain for you, marking as solved.

My hosting account username: typo3 I want to add the domain: add.realestate.crimea.ua

Domain changed. It can take up to 2 hours for the new domain to function.

I am willing to give it a try. I did the adjustments (see attached). So you mean that php mail sending could not work from the webpage or something else ?

The name servers would be ns1.heliohost.org and ns2.heliohost.org if you're able to change them (I know afraid.org often doesn't let you). If you're able to set NS records, this should work. I do know that the "normal" DNS service provided by afraid does not work properly with our service (notably has compatibility issues with the records needed for email to function). Do you want us to go ahead and change the domain?

hi, my username is sanox, would it be possible to switch subdomain rcp.helioho.st to realcryptoprofit.mooo.com ? It is a free NS service by freedns.afraid.org. If it would be possible, can you share the NS of heliohost.org so I can switch to them ? Thanks in advance

Domain added, it'll take effect in about forty minutes. You'll need to switch to HelioHost's nameservers if you haven't already, or create an A/AAAA record to Morty's IP address.

Per this dashboard page, I'd like to request the addition of the domain `auctionpub.channel` to my Morty `beporter` account, please. 🙏 Thank you! Brian

Domains added. it can take up to 2 hours to start working. The nameservers are ns1.heliohost.org and ns2.heliohost.org. after changing the nameservers, it can take up to 72 hours for the DNS to propagate.

Hi my username is lightningbird I would like to add www.spacepoo.org and www.spacepoo.gay I'm not sure what the deal is with the DNS servers.

Installed. You can see the current list of installed modules and their versions for Johnny's Python 3.12 at https://krydos2.heliohost.org/pyinfo/info3.12.py

Changed. It can take up to 2 hours to start working.

Replace the main domain