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Here is the second video in our Minecraft series. This video documents how to set up a modded Minecraft server on a HelioHost VPS. https://youtu.be/Fgmzvrtu7sA We are going to try to continue releasing new videos every 2 weeks, because some users find it much easier to follow a video guide rather than reading the text guides we have at https://wiki.helionet.org/ Please let us know if there is a specific topic that you think would be good for our next video. Also if you don't mind subscribing to our YouTube channel that would be a great way to get some free advertising. We are a small non-profit funded by donations so we don't have a huge budget to afford paid advertising, so the more word of mouth recommendations, the more social media likes, and the more subscribes we can get goes a long ways towards finding more users and continuing to grow. Even if you can't donate, this is a great way to help us for free. Thanks!

One of the most common questions we get is "Can I run a Minecraft server on HelioHost?" The answer is yes, and we've made a video tutorial on how to get started. https://youtu.be/JAXDD7VYHUk We are going to try to continue releasing new videos every 2 weeks, because some users find it much easier to follow a video guide rather than reading the text guides we have at https://wiki.helionet.org/ Please let us know if there is a specific topic that you think would be good for our next video. Also if you don't mind subscribing to our YouTube channel that would be a great way to get some free advertising. We are a small non-profit funded by donations so we don't have a huge budget to afford paid advertising, so the more word of mouth recommendations, the more social media likes, and the more subscribes we can get goes a long ways towards finding more users and continuing to grow. Even if you can't donate, this is a great way to help us for free. Thanks!

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.

Free signups on the Johnny server will be reopening in about 10 hours since the maintenance for the last week has been completed. The performance of PHP should be much faster than before, and the number of 503 errors should be much less. Let us know if you notice any difference. Webmail is now disabled by default on the Johnny accounts, but you can enable it yourself if you will be using it.

Thank you to everyone who helped beta test our WSGI restart access for Flask and Django apps. We now have enough data from the testing to end the beta. We have determined that enabling WSGI restart access uses at a minimum 260 GB memory per day per domain. Obviously this is a death sentence for any Tommy or Johnny account, since you're only allowed to use 200 GB per day, so WSGI restart access is now a feature only available on Morty. We have gone through all of the accounts on Morty, Tommy, and Johnny and disabled the WSGI restart access so there are no surprise suspensions or surprise bills. If you're on Morty and your WSGI access was removed please feel free to re-request it. If you do request WSGI restart access on Morty for one domain be aware that you're probably looking at a bill of $1.91 or more per month as long as it is enabled. If you enable WSGI restart access on two Morty domains you'll probably end up paying about $5.86 per month. Being able to clear the server cache is definitely helpful for debugging your Flask or Django app, so if you want to enable WSGI restart access on Morty temporarily for debugging, and then disable it for the lower bill later, that is fine with us. Please be aware that we attempt to respond to all support requests as quickly as possible, usually within an hour or two, but occasionally it can take up to 24 hours to complete if it's a holiday, the middle of the night, we're all busy, etc. etc. 24 hours of WSGI restart access only costs about 3 cents though, so no need to panic.

The way Morty billing works is you get 200 GB memory and 10k CPU per day for the base rate of $0.0329 which is about $1.00 per month. If you go over the 200 GB memory limit you get charged an extra $0.0005 per 1 GB memory. If you go over the 10k CPU limit you get charged an extra $0.005 per 1k CPU. Since WSGI restart access uses about 260 GB memory per day per domain. That is (60 GB * $0.0005) + $0.0329 = $0.0629 per day, which comes out to about $1.91 per month. The way VPS billing works is you get a dedicated amount of memory that you can use however you want for a fixed rate per month. The Mercury VPS has 1 GB memory, which after the OS uses some is about 800 MB dedicated to you. (800 MB / 1024) * 1440 minutes means you have about 1125 GB per day for about $0.1315 per day. Another thing to consider is Morty doesn't have an account number limit so you could just put WSGI restart access on 2 different accounts and have $1.91 + $1.91 = $3.82 which is still less than the cheapest $4.00 VPS. Another advantage of Morty is VPS don't come with Plesk for free, so if you want Plesk it would be an additional $15.49 per month on top of the $4.00 you pay to us for the VPS.

Thank you for the information. How will the billing and payment be handled to keep WSGI activated? Considering the estimated cost of $5.86 to keep the restart active for two domains, would migrating to a VPS be the best option in this case?

Happy Memorial Day everyone! HelioHost has released a new YouTube video on how to issue a Google Trust Services certificate on a VPS. Check it out and subscribe at https://youtu.be/qXp6pw_aV0w We are going to try to continue releasing new videos every 2 weeks, because some users find it much easier to follow a video guide rather than reading the text guides we have at https://wiki.helionet.org/ Please let us know if there is a specific topic that you think would be good for our next video. Also if you don't mind subscribing to our YouTube channel that would be a great way to get some free advertising. We are a small non-profit funded by donations so we don't have a huge budget to afford paid advertising, so the more word of mouth recommendations, the more social media likes, and the more subscribes we can get goes a long ways towards finding more users and continuing to grow. Even if you can't donate, this is a great way to help us for free. Thanks!

HelioHost has released a new YouTube video on how to install MariaDB and PHP on a VPS. Check it out and subscribe at https://youtu.be/IbUi2gcLbuA We are going to try to continue releasing new videos every 2 weeks, because some users find it much easier to follow a video guide rather than reading the text guides we have at https://wiki.helionet.org Please let us know if there is a specific topic that you think would be good for our next video. Also if you don't mind subscribing to our YouTube channel that would be a great way to get some free advertising. We are a small non-profit funded by donations so we don't have a huge budget to afford paid advertising, so the more word of mouth recommendations, the more social media likes, and the more subscribes we can get goes a long ways towards finding more users and continuing to grow. Even if you can't donate, this is a great way to help us for free. Thanks!

We have made some changes to the Tommy server to help reduce the number of 503 errors, and speed up the execution of PHP scripts. The feedback we've gotten so far seems to indicate that it is working. We have also noticed that the changes have sped up the time it takes for Apache to restart which should reduce downtime as well. Since the DDoS was targeting the webmail subdomain of random domains hosted on Tommy we just went through and disabled Roundcube on every account. We figure most people probably don't even use the webmail anyways so it is a waste of system resources to have it on by default. If you regularly use Roundcube webmail you can re-enable it yourself on your domain if you need to. Login > Continue to Plesk > Mail > Mail Settings > [Your Domain] > Webmail > Select Roundcube > Ok After enabling webmail again you will need to wait for up to 2 hours for an Apache restart before it will work. In the meantime if you go to webmail.yourdomain.helioho.st it will show the queued page with an estimate of when webmail should start working again. We will also be disabling webmail on Johnny to help with the 503 errors on that server too. We will likely need to disable free signups for a day or so because the server gets really slow while all the webmails are being disabled so account creations tend to time out. Let us know if you have noticed an improvement on the PHP performance of Tommy, or if you have any questions.

Over the past week or so both Johnny and Tommy have been experiencing occasional slow loading and 503 errors on PHP pages from time to time. This is definitely not normal because we've been using Plesk since 2021 and none of us can even remember the last time we saw a 503 error, and then suddenly they are happening quite frequently on these two servers. We are investigating the issue, and are hoping to resolve it soon. In the meantime, here are some ideas you can do to improve the uptime of your PHP based website. 1. Morty hasn't been affected at all by the 503 errors on PHP pages at all so far, so this is a great time to upgrade to our fastest flagship server starting at only $1 per month. You can check out the discounted Morty packages at https://heliohost.org/dashboard/move/ and move yourself over without talking to an admin by using our fully automated upgrade process with zero downtime for your website if you're interested in trying it out. 2. VPS also have not been affected by the 503 errors either. They start at $4 per month, and aren't affected by other users on the same server as you, because on a VPS you're the only user. Being able to have root SSH access is also a great perk of being a VPS customer. You can check out the plans at https://heliohost.org/vps/ 3. If you don't want to upgrade it is possible for some PHP websites to be converted to static websites. Since it is only PHP being affected by these 503 errors converting your site to use only static html, Javascript, and CSS will allow your website to load faster, have less errors, cause less server load, and greatly reduce the chance of your site getting hacked. It's not possible for all websites to be converted though so this isn't an option for everyone. 4. You could also switch to a language other than PHP. For instance, Python websites using CGI, Django, or Flask haven't been affected by the 503 errors at all. Node.js hasn't been affected by the 503 errors either, but if you decide to try Node.js we recommend keeping a close eye on your load graph at https://heliohost.org/dashboard/load/ because it's easy to go over your 200 GB memory limit. In order to diagnose these 503 errors, the first step we're going to take is implementing additional logging and performance monitoring so we can see exactly when and why the errors are occurring. Let us know if you have any questions, or have any additional information to assist in our investigation.

You got suspended for high memory usage. 6% of your memory usage was from Laravel, and the other 94% came from Node.js. Laravel, PHP, and 503 errors had absolutely nothing to do with either of your suspensions.

I had problems with 503 in a Laravel installation. In some cases it was necessary to restart the application. The application is very simple and does not have many requests, even so my account was suspended twice. Maybe there is a correlation. I have already opened a request regarding the suspensions. I am just considering it for diagnosis.

HelioHost has released a new YouTube video on how to install Nginx on a VPS. Check it out and subscribe at https://youtu.be/zHwWs7Tt2zc We are going to try to continue releasing new videos every 2 weeks, because some users find it much easier to follow a video guide rather than reading the text guides we have at https://wiki.helionet.org Please let us know if there is a specific topic that you think would be good for our next video. Also if you don't mind subscribing to our YouTube channel that would be a great way to get some free advertising. We are a small non-profit funded by donations so we don't have a huge budget to afford paid advertising, so the more word of mouth recommendations, the more social media likes, and the more subscribes we can get goes a long ways towards finding more users and continuing to grow. Even if you can't donate, this is a great way to help us for free. Thanks!

HelioHost has released a new YouTube video on how to set up a Discord bot on any of our shared hosting plans, including the free Johnny plan. Check it out and subscribe at https://youtu.be/-9Q9SAONgtM Back in June 2021 we started a YouTube channel for HelioHost and began releasing videos on how to do various projects on our hosting. Our plan was to release a new video every 2 weeks, but then less than a month later we were forced to switch control panels. Since all of our systems, code, signup pages, and everything else were designed for our old control panel it was a massive undertaking to rewrite all of our websites and code to work with Plesk so we didn't have a lot of time to release new videos. Now that we're fully recovered, and our transition to Plesk is mostly done we decided it would be a good time to start releasing videos again. Please let us know if there is a specific topic that you think would be good for our next video. Also if you don't mind subscribing to our YouTube channel that would be a great way to get some free advertising. We are a small non-profit funded by donations so we don't have a huge budget to afford paid advertising, so the more word of mouth recommendations, the more social media likes, and the more subscribes we can get goes a long ways towards finding more users and continuing to grow. Even if you can't donate, this is a great way to help us for free. Thanks!

You can now upgrade the storage space on your account by going to https://heliohost.org/dashboard/storage/ This process is fully automated, and you no longer have to contact an admin to increase your storage space. Unlike most hosting providers we don't charge a monthly rate for storage space on our shared hosting accounts. We just charge a flat one-time donation of $5 per 1000 MB. The storage space, once increased, stays with your account forever. If you switch hosting plans, the storage transfers with your account. If you go inactive and your account is archived, the storage space will still be there years from now when you renew your account. Let us know if you have any comments or run into any issues upgrading your own storage space.

We're happy to announce that PHP 8.4 is now available on the Morty server. We will be upgrading Tommy and Johnny to have PHP 8.4 as well soon.

HelioHost is doubling our daily memory limit from 100 GB to 200 GB on Johnny and Tommy accounts. Morty accounts will also be able to use up to 200 GB of memory in a day before overage charges begin to get added to the bill. We've had the 100 GB memory limit for a while now, but we think it is time to raise the limit. Most languages are fairly memory efficient, but since we offer Node.js hosting it's nearly impossible to do anything with it, while also staying under the memory limit, because it's so bloated. Ever since we started offering Node.js hosting in 2019 it has basically been a death sentence for any account that tries to use it since it consumes so much memory, and some accounts get suspended after only an hour or two. We are also one of the few free hosting providers that allow long running processes like Discord bots, Telegram bots, and web sockets that can also use a lot of memory too. If you follow our Discord bot guide you end up with an extremely simple Python bot that uses about 50 GB of memory per day, but as soon as you add more features it can easily exceed the old 100 GB per day limit. It's well documented how much we hate Wordpress around here, but we can't deny that it is extremely popular software that a lot of people use. Even with zero plugins you can't get more than about 4k page hits per day before you exceed the old 100 GB limit. Most free hosting providers intentionally set obnoxiously low limits on things like this to force people to upgrade to their paid hosting, but we want our free hosting Johnny plan and donor hosting Tommy plan to be useable, not just schemes to force people to upgrade. Likewise Morty accounts can now use up to 200 GB of memory included in the base $1 per month, before the overage charges of $0.0005 per 1 GB memory begin to accumulate. Let us know if you have any questions.

A huge thank you goes out to the 66 generous donors who have helped us complete our latest fundraiser in record time. Based on previous fundraisers we expected it to take about 6 months to raise the $2500 to buy a new server, but we have already reached our goal in exactly 1 month. If you're a donor and haven't received your thank you gifts yet, please let us know so we can get that set up for you. Now that we have raised the funds that we asked for, we will use the money to buy a new server with 192 GB memory, 40 CPU cores, and 10.5 TB of hard drive space named Stevie. Since we're a small non-profit run by volunteers it will take at least a few months to get everything set up, but we'll make an announcement when we're ready for the Java beta testers to start helping out testing the new server. We're also really excited to be able to increase the amount of free hosting space that we have. Johnny continues to fill in less than a second at both noon and midnight most days even though we've increased the number of available free accounts granted each day by quite a bit. This fundraiser should be able to nearly double the amount of free hosting space that we have. We'll make more announcements as the hardware gets installed, and the new server gets set up. Keep an eye out for the latest HelioHost news.

HelioHost is raising funds to purchase a new server! https://donorbox.org/rebirth-of-stevie In 2005, Ashoat, who was 14 years old at the time, came up with the ridiculous idea of giving away web hosting for free. He purchased the domain heliohost.org and a reseller plan, but it wasn't too long before there were so many people wanting to host their website for free on HelioHost that Ashoat had to buy a server to support them all. He named that first server Stevie. HelioHost now has several more servers, but Stevie is special because he was the first. We used that server as long as we could, but it eventually became too old to do anything useful anymore, so we unplugged it. We are going to hand poor old Stevie over to the recyclers soon, but that doesn't have to be the end for him... 2025 is HelioHost's 20-year anniversary, and what better way to celebrate this milestone than by reflecting on where we came from, and taking the next step towards where we are going. We can keep the spirit of Stevie alive to carry on his purpose even after his metal, copper, and silicon have all been melted down, by raising funds for a new server and naming it Stevie. Summary of thank you gifts (see fundraiser for details): $5 = +1000 MB on existing Morty, Tommy, or Johnny account. $10 = +2000 MB (to a max of 7000 MB) on an existing Morty, Tommy, or Johnny account. $15 = +3000 MB (to a max of 7000 MB) on an existing Morty, Tommy, or Johnny account. $20 = +4000 MB (to a max of 7000 MB) on an existing Morty, Tommy, or Johnny account. $25 = +5000 MB (to a max of 7000 MB) on an existing Morty, Tommy, or Johnny account. $30 = +6000 MB (to a max of 7000 MB) on an existing Morty, Tommy, or Johnny account. $35 = Early beta access to new Java and JSP hosting server before it is publicly available. $40 = +1000 MB on existing Morty, Tommy, or Johnny account, plus early beta access to new Java server. $45 = +2000 MB (to a max of 7000 MB) on an existing Morty, Tommy, or Johnny account, plus early beta access to new Java server. $50 = +3000 MB (to a max of 7000 MB) on an existing Morty, Tommy, or Johnny account, plus early beta access to new Java server. $55 = +4000 MB (to a max of 7000 MB) on an existing Morty, Tommy, or Johnny account, plus early beta access to new Java server. $60 = +5000 MB (to a max of 7000 MB) on an existing Morty, Tommy, or Johnny account, plus early beta access to new Java server. $65+ = +6000 MB (to a max of 7000 MB) on an existing Morty, Tommy, or Johnny account, plus early beta access to new Java server. Please don't let Stevie be forgotten. It will only take you a minute to give us a gift to help us achieve this goal. The money you donate is tax-deductible, and any amount big or small helps get us a step closer. Thank you so much!

After about 5 years of using GitBook for our wiki we've decided it is time to move on. We are now using a self-hosted MediaWiki site. The wiki is located at the same URL as it has always been https://wiki.helionet.org but since we just changed the DNS you may continue to see the old GitBook site for up to 4 hours. Let us know if you're interested in editing the wiki and we can create an account for you. Eventually we will offer a self-service way to create wiki accounts and reset wiki passwords, but for now we just want to get the new wiki launched so we don't have to keep two wikis up to date at the same time. We would love to hear any feedback you have on our new wiki.

The Morty server has finally been released for new account signups! If you don't already have an account and want to try out our fastest server, head on over to https://heliohost.org/morty/ to signup. If you already have an account on Johnny or Tommy you can move your existing account to Morty at https://heliohost.org/dashboard/move instead. Only the Morty prepay option is available currently, but we will be releasing the Morty subscription option as well soon. With the prepay option you can make a one-time deposit to increase your Morty balance, and then each day that goes by reduces that balance by $0.0329 as long as you stay under 100 GB memory and 10k CPU usage. If you go over those limits you will be charged for the overage instead of suspended. The overage fee is $0.0005 per 1 GB memory usage and $0.005 per 1k CPU usage. The main advantage of the Morty prepay plan is you can save 16% to 21% over the cost of the subscription plan. With the subscription option, your first month is $1, and then you are charged for any overages at the start of the next month. If you stay under 100 GB memory and 10k CPU every single day you will be charged $1 every month until you cancel. If you exceed those limits you will be charged the same $0.0005 per 1 GB memory usage and $0.005 per 1k CPU on the next month's bill. The main advantage of the Morty subscription plan is you don't have to worry about forgetting to make one-time payments to increase your balance. You can just set it and forget it and your website will stay online as long as the payment continues to go through. Let us know if you have any feedback or questions about our new flagship server.

We're updating our Terms of Service. Our Terms explain what you can expect from us when using our services, and what we expect from you as a user of our services. You can find the updated Terms at the following URL: https://wiki.helionet.org/hosting/terms From here on out, we will email all of our users each time we make changes to the Terms of Service to give them plenty of time to review the changes and opt out of the changes if they wish to. What is changing: * We have been using slightly different Terms of Service for our shared hosting and VPS hosting for the last 6 years, but now we've unified them to make things easier to understand. * We have never allowed cryptocurrency mining on any of our hosting plans, but now we've added that information to the Terms of Service to make it easier to find. * We've never allowed children below the age of 13 to use our services, but it is now simpler to locate. * We have expanded our restriction on modifying game content to include preventing normal operation as well. * In addition, we've clarified the risks you assume by using our service, that you agree to not hold us liable for damages resulting from our service not working properly, and that we don't guarantee availability or uptime. * We have also made some minor changes to phrasing for clarity. What this means for you: Our Terms have been updated to reflect these changes and go into effect on January 17th, 2025. If you agree to these Terms, no further action is needed, and you can continue using our services as you always have. By continuing to use our websites or the services you receive after that date, you agree to the updated Terms.

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A new European law is coming into force which means that websites must make their users aware of what cookies are and receive some form of consent. Although HelioNetworks (HelioHost and HelioNet) is based within the United States, I would like to clarify how we use cookies at HelioNetworks. By using our services and browsing our website, you are giving consent for us to place cookies on your computer. In case you are not already aware, cookies are little pieces of information that are placed on your computer. We use cookies for a variety of reasons, such as analytics, secure logins, etc. Below is a list of cookies which we have picked up on. Please be aware there may be more that we have not noticed. The below list my change at any time without notification Cookies from heliohost.org __utma __utmb __utmc __utmz _jsuid first_pv_51643 A randomly generated session cookie Cookies from helionet.org helionetcoppa helionetmember_id helionetpass_hash helionetsession_id Cookies from cPanel (stevie.heliohost.org:2082, johnny.heliohost.org:2082, etc) cprelogin cpsession didgettingstarted lang langedit logintheme showdotfiles Cookies from doubleclick.net (Advertising - see the website for details if any) _drt_ id Cookies from getclicky.com & in.getclicky.com & static.getclicky.com (Analytics - see the website for details if any) _cfduid cluid Cookies from invitemedia.com (Advertising - see the website for details if any) camp_freq_p1 exchange_uid impressions_p1 io_freq_p1 subID uid Comments are welcome. Thank you very much. jje HelioNetworks Administrator

One of the biggest problems on forums these days is lack of good forum etiquette. What some of the newer users of message boards don't understand is that forums have a very different environment from a chatroom, an instant message conversation, or even an email correspondence. Users of respectable message boards are expected to act maturely. And therefore, to help some of our newer users, I have created this guide to maintaining good forum etiquette. Use spelling and grammar correctly. Always capitalize the first letter in a sentence, even if you only have one to post. Always use periods. Capitalize only when necessary. Remember, all caps means you're yelling. Use commas and punctuation marks. The only excuse you can have for bad spelling or grammar is that you are not a native of an English-speaking country, and even then, you should do your best to learn English.Don't post just to up your post count. In fact, don't even pay attention to your post count. The senior members of a forum aren't respected because they have lots of posts, but because they are good contributors. You should strive to do the same.When you post, make it in-depth. Never just say "I agree" or "Good idea." Describe your idea. Say "I agree because..." or "Good idea. I think..." We want to hear a developed opinion, not just a short statement. Two or three word posts aren't really contributing anything to the forum.Know what you're talking about. Most forums are a community of experts and enthusiasts, and they love to discuss their passions. However, if you go into a topic you don't know much about and say something ignorant, it'll really tick them off. Especially if you stated it with authority.Never ask someone a question you can could easily get answered through a search engine or an encyclopedia. People expect you to find things out on your own instead of getting other members to do it for you. Laziness is frowned upon.Make sure never to turn a topic into back-and-forth conversations on random things. Topics are made for a reason - to discuss something. If you go into a topic and turn it into something completely irrelevant from what it was intended to discuss, you're only ruining it for the users who seriously want to discuss that topic.Don't just go through every topic in a forum posting in each one. Most people will find it hard to believe that you actually have something important to contribute to a topic if you post all over the place.Don't overdramatize unimportant things. There is no need to post a sorry thread if you broke a rule, or make a big deal when something doesn't apply to you. If you made a mistake, no big deal. If you follow these rules, people will forget all about it in a month or so.Don't freak out if no one responds. People have things they need to deal with outside of HelioNet. If you have a question and it has gone several days without being answered, kindly bump the thread up so others may see it.These are just the basics of forum etiquette. You'll learn much more as you post and interact with the community. We won't chastise you for a mistake, but we expect you to do your best to follow this guide. Good luck, and happy foruming © Copyright Helio Networks 2006-2009

THE FOLLOWING WILL NOT BE TOLERATED:-Excessive use of profanity or bad languageBob: F*** you!!!-DiscriminationBob: Whites are superior to blacks.Bob: Buddhists suck!!!-Posts meant to offend or hurt another memberBob: Joe sucks!!!-WarezBob: You can get all games for free!!! Just download a crack!!!-Pornographic Material or SuggestionsBob: XXX FREE [bleeped!]!!!-ImpersonationBob: Hi I'm Joe.Joe: No, I'm Joe!-Multiple UsernamesBob1: Hi, I'm Bob.Bob2: I'm also Bob!Bob3: All three of us are the same person!-Using Proxies When PostingBob: Hey, check it out, I am using a proxy!!Please see the Official Spam Guide for more information on spam, which is also prohibited. Infraction of these rules will result in a Helion subtraction and/or ban, according to the Official Enforcement Guide.Use of this website and its forums indicates that you have agreed to the above terms. If you have NOT agreed, please discontinue use of the website and/or Helio Networks and its services.Thank you.

The Temporary Banning SystemWe will temporarily ban you in the following situations: Violation of the Official Spam Guide will result in a Temporary Ban for each consecutive five violations. This means you will recieve a ban on your 5th, 10th, 15th and so forth violations. The length of the ban depends on the number of times you have already been banned. If this is your first ban, it will last 5 days. Your second will last 10 days, your third 15 days, and so forth. Violation of the Official Rules Guide will result in a Temporary Ban for each consecutive two violations. This means you will recieve a ban on your 2nd and 4th violations. The length of the ban depends on the number of times you have already been banned. Your first ban will last 10 days. Your second will last 20 days. Where a moderator deems it necessary. The Permanent Banning SystemWe will permanently ban you in the following situations: Violation of the Official Rules Guide will result in a Permanent Ban on your 5th violation. Doing something the owner (djbob) or any software of the Helio Networks (that includes HelioHost) did not intend for you to have permission to do. Where an admin deems it necessary. The Official Spam Guide is available here. The Official Rules Guide is available here. The Official Etiquette Guide is available here.Use of this website and its forums indicates that you have agreed to the above terms. If you have NOT agreed, please discontinue use of the website and/or Helio Networks and its services.Thank you.

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