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First of all, sorry for the long downtime on our main website. Over the past few years our main database has just been getting slower and slower. It was last rebuilt in 2017 so it was well overdue for an upgrade. A few days ago the main database was so slow that we decided to take it offline, and rebuild it with a modern operating system and up-to-date software. We expected the downtime to last a few hours, but then during the upgrade everything fell apart. While Cody was down, his twin brother Brody got so sad he died too. This happens sometimes with twins because they can't live without each other, which is cute but also very tragic. So then, with both a dead Cody and a dead Brody, we had no nameservers, no main database, no website, no forum, no wiki, etc etc etc. But here at HelioHost we never give up. No matter how many servers explode, or how many evil for-profit corporations try to destroy us we will never give up. It took a few days, but our main website is back online, both of our nameservers are back online, our forum is working again, and a lot of the stuff going on behind the scenes are working again too. That said, there is still plenty of stuff that isn't working yet. The main issue seems to be that during the upgrade of the nameservers a lot of DNS zones got lost, so some websites are offline. If your domain gives a DNS error when you try to visit it in a browser let us know and we can take a look. It usually only takes a few seconds to recreate the DNS for you. We're still working on getting everything functional again, but we're making progress. Thanks for everyone's patience during this crazy rebuild.

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.

Here is the pyinfo page for both 3.9 & 3.14 https://morty2-info.heliohost.org/pyinfo/

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.

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.

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

Correct. SQLite3 is actually built into every Python 3.14 by default too, but we recommend using MariaDB or PostgreSQL because they're easier to get working, and better performance. This module is really ancient and doesn't even work with Python 3.0. For Python 3.14 I installed Beautifulsoup4 instead. You can see the current list of installed modules for Johnny's Python 3.14 at https://johnny-info.heliohost.org/pyinfo/info3.14.py

Weird. The system is unable to set up SPF/DMARC/DKIM on that domain. Keeps saying it can't find it despite the domain obviously existing. Based on the output, I suspect the DKIM setup tool on our side may not be capable of setting this up on Johnny domains (probably due to the rebuild). Flagging for Krydos...

An administrator will be able to do this for you.

2026/05/31 17:06:15 [emerg] 613206#613206: duplicate location "/" in /home/bawantha/conf/web/anonymizer.bawantha-beliwaththa.me/nginx.ssl.conf_flask.conf:1 It looks like you tried to add a custom nginx directive but you are trying to pass a location context to another proxy when Hestia already passes all traffic to Apache on port 8080, i fixed the error, and restarted nginx let us know if the error still persists. to add the proxy to port 5001 back, login to hestia, go to web and then click edit, on anonymizer.bawantha-beliwaththa.me, after that click Advanced options and then change the proxy template to python or node depending on what you are using, and then set 5001 in the backend port setting. i also made a backup of your code before making any changes which you can find in /home/bawantha/

2026-07-24

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.

24 hours... 😓 Well, now we know if someone else has trouble with git, I guess! Glad it's all sorted out! 🙂

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!

Krydos can put these back for you.

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.

thank you for all your hard work 🙏🏻

That domain has already been added.

Fixed. If you delete the document root folder, you'll break the domain. There are special permissions on those folders that you can't set yourself, so even if you recreate the folder, you still have to contact support to have the permissions fixed.

This might help you too

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.

Fixed. The issue is Morty has a newer MariaDB than Tommy, and you created your Wordpress database using a collation that doesn't exist in the older MariaDB on Tommy. After converting your data into a collation that Tommy understands it works fine now.

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

Installed. You can see the current list of installed modules for Morty's Python 3.14 at https://morty2-info.heliohost.org/pyinfo/info3.14.py

Let me guess, you are on Jonny server right? I fear you are not alone. I am also experiencing the same thing but I read the news and stay calm. My advice? Always read the news, it will help you stay calm.

Please post the full, uncensored URL that's experiencing this problem so we can review the issue.

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.

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

I split your request to make a new thread since it's easier to troubleshoot different issues separately. I checked your site and it loaded for me (amazing car! 🤩). Looks like you resolved the issue yourself so I'll mark this as [Solved]. Next time, if you run into an issue on your account, unless it seems like something that could be hosting-related or server-wide (which I can see in this case why you thought it could be a Tommy server issue!), please go ahead and make a new thread so your posts don't get accidentally missed in a request created by another user. If it does turn out to be a common issue, admins can always merge threads later and tell everyone they're affected by the same issue.

Subdomains added. It can take up to 2 hours for them to start working. We do not have access to your domain registrar, you'll need to do this yourself.

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>

This support request is being escalated to our root admins.

This support request is being escalated to our root admins.

An invite has been sent to create a Morty account. Please click the link and follow the instructions to create a new account. Data that was successfully recovered from your Johnny account can be downloaded from https://heliohost.org/backup/ Note that backups may not be available yet for all accounts, and not all data may have been recoverable (especially databases). If there is something specific you need that you don't have a backup of, let us know exact details of what you're looking for and we can take a second look to see if it can be recovered. If you need domains added, please let us know your new username and the domains you need once you finish creating the Morty account so we can get them set back up for you.

The DNS records are missing due to the maintenance, escalating...

Deleted.

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

This support request is being escalated to our root admins who can add the modules and WSGI control for you, and confirm if there's a morty2 pyinfo link set up.

I've added the vve.net domain to your account in the meantime. Once you've pointed your DNS, it should take effect after the next Apache reset which is set to begin in about 50 minutes.

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/

Don't know if you did anything, or if my messing around accidentally worked, but it's back up and running again, so the reset isn't required. Thank you anyway, and I'll bear all that in mind for the future!

This support request is being escalated to our root admins who have the DNS magic. 🙂

DNS recreated.

Your account has been reset, and you'll receive an email shortly with a link to complete the process and create a new account. If you need any data from your old account, a backup of your old account may be available at https://heliohost.org/backup/ once the process is complete. Note that if your account was reset due to malware or a Terms of Service violation, a backup of your account will not be created.

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.

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