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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/

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.

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

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.

An administrator will be able to do this for you.

Johnny no longer has Python 3.12, which is part of the issue. It has 3.14 now. You'll need to update relevant shebang lines. https://johnny-info.heliohost.org/pyinfo/info3.14.py I'll assume you want these installed for 3.14. Datetime, json, and OS are built-in I believe. Requests is already present. Escalating to have the others installed: sqlite3, Beautifulsoup

DKIM, SPF, and DMARC have been set up for the domain kittforhire.com. 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.

Domain changed. It may take several hours to start working.

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

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/

DNS records added.

Krydos can put these back for you.

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.

thank you for all your hard work 🙏🏻

Domain changed. It can take up to 2 hours to function.

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.

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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.

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.

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

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. 🙏

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.

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.

Fixed missing DNS zone. Your site should work again shortly.

Johnny hasn't been rebuilt yet, an announcement will be made when it is finished. a root admin can send you an invite to morty for free until the rebuild is finished so you do not experience significant downtime.

Yes, it is.

Deleted.

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.

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/

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!

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.

The basic process is: Request the domain be added to your account here, wait 2 hours, then change the name servers at your domain registrar to our name servers (ns1.heliohost.org and ns2.heliohost.org). Once the DNS updates propagate, you'll see the site you have hosted on Tommy instead of the site you have at your old hosting company (it can sometimes take a few hours before everyone sees the change, DNS doesn't update instantly). Note that we are not a domain registrar, so you can't handle the actual domain registration through us, only the hosting. If you are using the old hosting company for domain registration as well as hosting, you'll want to transfer the domain to a standalone registrar (we recommend Namecheap), then set the domain to use our name servers in the new registrar's control panel.

This support request is being escalated to our root admins who can set up remote access.

DNS recreated.

DNS recreated.