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The free plan is now back, and better than ever! The Johnny rebuild has been completed and free signups will be opening in about 30 minutes. If you don't already have an account you can signup at https://heliohost.org/signup/ We expect signups to fill pretty quickly, so be ready to click as fast as you can. On May 9th we emailed all of the active Johnny users, and offered them a free trial on Morty to get their websites back online during the rebuild. If you are one of those free users currently on Morty we will be emailing you to ask if you want to stay on Morty or go back to Johnny. If you want to stay on Morty you can use this link https://buy.stripe.com/7sI8wOe4p40y9q0147 to pay $5 which will last about 6 months without overages. If you make a payment let us know so we can make sure it gets applied to your account. If we don't hear back from your we will move you to Johnny automatically in a few days. If you decided not to accept a free trial, you can recreate your Johnny account by going to https://heliohost.org/status/ and entering your email or username. The website will recreate your account for you on the new Johnny server. The new account will be empty so if you want to restore your previous website you'll need to download your backup from https://heliohost.org/backup/ or use a backup that you made yourself. Keep in mind that if your backup is missing anything we may still be able to recover it for you. Just let us know what you're missing, and we can take a look. The new Johnny also has a number of upgrades such as Python 3.14, MariaDB 12.2, PostgreSQL 18.4, etc. If your script isn't working, make sure you're using the correct shebang version. Let us know if you have any questions.

Yes, the Johnny server allows up to 5 domains. If you need more than that, you could upgrade your account to the Tommy server, which allows up to 10 domains. If you need even more domains, your next upgrade option would be the Morty server, where you can have up to 15 domains on a single Morty account. On Morty, you can have more than 1 account too, so if you make 2 Morty accounts, you can host 30 domains, etc. You could also upgrade to a VPS which also allows for multiple domains to be hosted, once you set up the DNS. There was an issue when I tried to add the domain, but it's being worked on. Once added, an admin will post here to confirm it's been added for you.

Please do not post multiple topics for the same issue. Requests can take up to 24 hours to receive a response.

Please do not create multiple topics for one request. Posting more than one topic on the same request/issue can result in a delay in service to you. You already posted here:

That's good to know. Those files can vary quite widely by server version and database content, so the fact an off the shelf AI can convert the binary InnoDB database files back into .sql format without issue is quite impressive. Thank you for the info.

.htaccess file is going to be your best friend here as moneybroz said above. We've had to block these scanners on our own sites as well as help other users with the same (usually on our other plans after they got suspended over it).

No, the backup from May will not contain databases. We were only able to recover the contents of the Home folder as of the day of the crash. The database server was damaged by the crash and associated disk issues, and the majority of the data was lost. If anything at all is recoverable, it's going to be raw server files that represent the table, and you'll need to spend some time trying to extract the data from them. The data will not be something that you can just import into a new account. Escalating to Krydos.

Sorry for the delay. I've been travelling the last few weeks, and somehow managed to miss this one. The requested DNS record has been added. In the future, if you don't receive a reply within 24 hours we encourage users to bump their support requests to make sure we don't miss it.

Invoice sent.

Great to hear you enjoyed the experience here and learn something from it! You should be able to cancel your VPS here: https://heliohost.org/dashboard/cancel/ If that doesn’t work, let us know and I’ll have Krydos cancel it for you.

Thanks for upgrading. I have set your balance to $24 after the $19 payment and $5 bonus. This should last you about two years without overages. We're going to move you to the upgraded Morty2. Morty2 is actually even faster and has newer software than the old Morty that you were on before, so it's even more of an upgrade.

DKIM, SPF, and DMARC have been set up for the domain dark.helioho.st. We recommend sending a real email (not just the word "test" or a blank email) to https://www.mail-tester.com/ to make sure that everything is set up correctly. If you get less than a 10/10 score please post a link to the full report so we can help you fix any other issues that there may be. You suspect correctly. It supports Johnny domains now.

The configuration we recommend is to use the server hostname (tommy.heliohost.org in your case) as the mail server. Plesk loves to suggest using user domains for the mail server, but our experience is that it tends to cause issues. SSL connections for mail not working is a common problem with doing so, and another is that mail clients may refuse to send mail through it for security reasons (the server identifies itself as Tommy regardless of what domain you use to connect, some clients do not like the fact the domain in its settings and the domain the server identifies as don't match).

Also, please note that once you change it in Plesk it can take several hours before the dashboard reflects the change.

You can do this yourself in Plesk > Click your username > Edit Profile and change the external email listed to the new one.

An administrator will be able to do this for you.

I've changed the main domain on your account for you. Please note that it may take up to 2 hours for your new domain to fully work. If after a full 2 hours it doesn't work on your side, please make sure you clear your web browser cache: https://wiki.helionet.org/Clear_Your_Cache Please note there is a risk of data loss when main domains are changed, so I made a full backup for you before I made the changes, in case you need any files from the old domain. You can download the backup here: https://heliohost.org/backup If you're not sure how to extract the backup files, please follow our how-to guide here: https://wiki.helionet.org/Account_Backups

Domains re-added. They should work within 2 hours. And yeah, I agree that messaging can be confusing especially for users with external DNS who may not realize the domain needs to be added. The page was written with the expectation that users would be using our DNS (which back in our cPanel days was actually a requirement to add the domain). For users who do use our DNS, an unconfigured domain simply doesn't resolve and returns NXDOMAIN instead of that page, so its obvious its not set up. When external DNS is used, it's possible to force an unconfigured domain to resolve, and the server just shows that page because it has no idea what to do with requests for the domain.

Oh yeah, that domain could be an issue if changing it means having to update/replace the firmware on old embedded devices. I'll put it back for now for you as an alias so you have both. It could take up to 2 hours to work, and will show the same content as the .us domain. In the meantime, please update your service/documentation so that new users and updates going forward will access your service through the .us domain instead. There will eventually be a point where we eliminate the remaining .org domains from user accounts.

Thanks for quick reply and Morty2 information. What a difference between free and paid in performance and uptime! I am loving Morty and I am sure I will love Morty2 even more.

Thank you so much for your help! I wanted to let you know that the repository has finally loaded. It took about 24 hours to finish, but it is no longer stuck in the queue. Since it loaded, we won't need to do the account reset. Thank you again for your support!

I've changed the main domain on your account for you. Please note that it may take up to 2 hours for the domain change to take effect, and it will not work until you set up your DNS with your domain registrar. To configure your DNS, please see the steps provided on our Wiki to either set NS records pointed at the HelioHost nameservers, or create A/AAAA records and point them to your server's IPv4/IPv6 address: https://wiki.helionet.org/Changing_Your_Main_Domain#Custom_Domains If after a full 2 hours it doesn't work on your side, please make sure you clear your web browser cache: https://wiki.helionet.org/Clear_Your_Cache Since there is a risk of data loss when main domains are changed, I made a full account backup for you before I made the changes, in case you need any files from the old domain. You can download the backup here: https://heliohost.org/backup If you're not sure how to extract the backup files, please follow our how-to guide here: https://wiki.helionet.org/Account_Backups

Domain added. It can take up to 2 hours to start working.

Great! Thank you. - This backup has everything. - Stripe works in my country. I'll do some work with the files, then will request an upgrade, once finished. I'll request some paid domains too. I know you have affiliation with Name Cheap, and I got the URL for this.

Sure. That domain has been added back.

thank you for all your hard work 🙏🏻

Yeah, that's a lot of emails. Backups 0 MB Emails 728.44 MB Files 245.03 MB Trash 0 MB Logs 23.35 MB PSQL 0 MB MariaDB 0 MB Total 996.82 MB 172K /home/urbanshed.helioho.st/httpdocs 245M /home/urbanshed.helioho.st/urbanshed.in 12K /home/urbanshed.helioho.st/.composer You're at 996 MB out of 1000 MB so you may be able to login quick and start deleting stuff before it goes over the limit again.

Your account was suspended because you exceeded your storage limit. You have 3 options to regain access to your account: You are able to regain access to your account immediately without waiting for an admin by increasing your account's storage space. This storage space upgrade is good for the life of the account, and has no monthly cost. Tell us which files you would like deleted and an admin can delete them for you to get you back under your current storage limit. If you're not sure which files are taking up all of your space an admin can provide a detailed storage space usage report for you. We can also reset your account for you which deletes all files, deletes all settings, and restores your account back to the default state with 0 MB of storage usage.

DNS recreated.

An administrator can check conclusively what is consuming your storage quota, but it's worth noting that any emails or databases you may have also contribute to that same quota. To resolve this issue, you can upgrade your storage at https://heliohost.org/dashboard/, reset your account, or request an administrator delete any excess files.

thank you. Working now. Have a great day, you made mine

Last week we had an issue with Brody and Cody, our nameservers, and we have been very busy during the subsequent days rebuilding them and getting everything back online. Since the older brothers were getting so much attention, the youngest brother, Johnny, threw a tantrum and demanded all of our attention. We noticed Johnny was acting up a couple hours ago, and shut him down to take a closer look. It turns out the master boot record needed to be rebuilt and the partition data needed to be reconstructed as well. We have access to the hard drive now, and it seems like most of the data is still intact. This could indicate that the hard drive is going bad though, so we've already started making backups of everything. It's actually interesting timing because Johnny was already scheduled to be rebuilt in the next month or two anyways, so we've just accelerated that plan. While the backups are being created we will be building a new Johnny on newer hardware and a more reliable hard drive raid array. Once all of the backups are ready we will let you know, so you can download them. If you'd like to get your website back online immediately, the Morty and Tommy servers are still operating normally, or you could even move to a VPS as well. If you'd like to stay on Johnny we will get the new server finished and the backups restored as soon as possible, but there is no promised ETA and it may take a week or maybe even longer.

There is a new Johnny running on the IP which is why you see a login page and johnny certs, but it's still being rebuilt. All the backend stuff has to be configured. When it is finished, we'll likely send invites for users to create new accounts since we can't recover the old ones. Users who took the free Morty trial will eventually be moved back to Johnny too if they decide not to purchase Morty plans.

This user is actually on Tommy and has 7 domains, which is why I asked for the URL. That said, I just realized it's all of his domains, and it's because his IPs on Cloudflare are incorrect. His DNS is set to Morty's IP but the account is on Tommy because he didn't refill his Morty balance. He needs to correct the DNS in Cloudflare on his end to point to Tommy.

There is no ETA for when adding/removing domains can be handled by users. Please see this page in the technical documenation Wiki which explains more: https://wiki.helionet.org/Addon_Domains#Addon_Domains Users cannot yet manage domains on their account themselves. We plan to add this feature in the future, but there is no ETA for when it may be implemented.You can read more about ETAs here: https://wiki.helionet.org/ETA In the meantime, HelioHost staff will be happy to help you manage your addon domains. Since there are very few unpaid volunteer staff spending their time keeping HelioHost running, requests for features and fixes have to be triaged and handled in a priority order. I think right now, the focus is on getting the servers fixed. There's also Java language support in the works, and the ability for users to add/remove their own domains is on our to-do list as well. In the meantime, to free up staff time to implement the necessary repairs and new features even quicker, you're welcome to help lessen the load by answering other users' questions if you can. Most of the information about HelioHost can be found in the Wiki, which can be found here and has a great keyword search function: https://wiki.helionet.org/ If there's something you searched for in the Wiki and can't find an answer to, we welcome user-created contributions to the technical documentation as well, so just let us know you'd like a new account to start adding information to the Wiki, and we'll definitely be happy to set that up for you, too.

Thanks for testing it. Max email size has been increased to 25 MB on Morty as requested. Once you're moved back to Johnny you'll probably have to remind us again.

It's no problem at all. We just don't want to miss anyone's requests by accident! 😅

Thank your very much for the kindest advice🙏 I am sorry for replying to the thread marked as solved. Won't happen again. 🙏

Yeah, sorry about that. Had the issue with Bad Gateway, no webmail etc but Plesk worked and FTP. Thats why i thought it might be related and hooked up on the other Thread. Makes sense to open a seperate one. Next time And yeah, suddenly it started working again. So it was maybe just a hiccup. Should have waited another 10 minutes Thanks for the compliment about the car 🥰 Actually we have 2 of them. Same build. Both in the family for 17 years now

Thanks, it works. Both passwords are updated properly. Regards.

DKIM, SPF, and DMARC have been set up for the domain kittforhire.heliohost.us. We recommend sending a real email (not just the word "test" or a blank email) to https://www.mail-tester.com/ to make sure that everything is set up correctly. If you get less than a 10/10 score please post a link to the full report so we can help you fix any other issues that there may be.

Remote access enabled. host=65.19.154.90 port=5432 user=kkaviani_admin dbname=kkaviani_poems password=<set in Plesk>

Remote access enabled. host=65.19.154.90 port=5432 user=mirmil_birdz_admin dbname=mirmil_birdz password=<set in Plesk>

The server you're on has failed, so we cannot do an automatic move for you. It would be a manual move (download backup, create new account, and set site up again) Since we are currently offering free trials of Morty accounts while Johnny is down, would you like me to send you a free Morty invite? If you choose not to pay after Johnny is restored, we'll simply move you to Johnny at that time (or if you wish, you can pay for Tommy instead of Morty at that time and we 'll move you from Morty->Tommy). If you still prefer to move to Tommy now, I'll just delete your broken account and you can sign up for Tommy normally. If your site needed Python modules, you'll need to request them again on your new server if they're not already present. You'll need to provide your own copy of any databases you had, as most backups do not contain databases (any that do will contain older versions of them). The files from your account can be downloaded from https://heliohost.org/backup/

I've added some files to your backup. Download it again from https://heliohost.org/backup

Not only have you bumped your own post in this thread (which can delay responses to you since we tend to look for the oldest timestamp first), but you've also posted the same question in another thread here: https://helionet.org/index/topic/67733-when-it-rains-it-pours/#findComment-301442 Since all staff are unpaid volunteers who donate their free time outside of real-life commitments (paid job, school, family, etc.) we prefer to eliminate unnecessary duplication of time and work. For guidance on where and how to ask for help, see: https://wiki.helionet.org/FAQ#Where_do_I_ask_for_help? To understand how Community-Powered Technical Support works, visit: https://wiki.helionet.org/FAQ#How_does_community-powered_support_work? For support response timelines (SLAs and ETAs), check: https://wiki.helionet.org/ETA Asking the same question in multiple places can lead to wasted staff time and effort, resulting in slower support timescales for you and other users.

There are currently issues on the Johnny server. For more details, please see the News post here: https://helionet.org/index/topic/67733-when-it-rains-it-pours/

The second name server was still missing the zone. Should be fixed now. Note that between monday and now, your site was in fact available for many users, it just depended on which name server their system decided to query. If it picked ns1, it worked, if it picked ns2 it did not.

DNS recreated.

Missing DNS zone fixed. It may take a little while before the changes propagate.