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HelioHost is happy to announce that we're disabling ads across all of our websites and hosting plans, including the free Johnny plan, starting now. Back in 2008 through 2016 or so HelioHost was 100% funded by ads, and we made so much ad revenue that we even managed to save up quite a bit of money in our bank account too. It might come as a shock to some of you, but it isn't free for us to provide free hosting, so we still have to pay for stuff like electricity and internet access. As the years went by Adsense kept paying less less and less each year, and our bills kept adding up to be higher than the ad revenue. So our bank accounts kept dwindling lower and lower. There were a few scary years in there where we had to make some hard decisions whether or not to just give up and shut down entirely. We didn't think anyone would be willing to donate to us, but we didn't really have a lot of other options, so starting in 2016 we began asking for donations. We were then, and still are, completely shocked by how generous people can be. After finishing a record setting fundraiser to purchase a new server earlier this year, we discussed it and decided that we don't need ads at all anymore. As long as people keep donating towards our non-profit mission to provide free or low cost hosting, we don't need to bombard you with annoying advertisements. Thank you to all of our donors for making this possible.

No problem A few others also use it as well and have turned it back on. It's not an issue if its being used. The issues we saw were because every single one of the 4000+ domains on the server had it enabled, which meant lots of resources going to webmail subdomains that nobody used, and lots of exposure to bots that wanted to break in and send spam. By turning it off on domains where it's not needed, we save resources (both in terms of Apache vhosts and CPU/RAM use), and also substantially reduce Roundcube's exposure to abusive bots because the webmail subdomains simply show the (static HTML) queued page instead of Roundcube when its disabled.

Your VPS has been powered back on, and your new subscription has been linked to your VPS.

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