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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.

You've probably heard of Apache and Nginx, but have you heard about Caddy? In this video we show you how to install the Caddy webserver software on your VPS. Caddy is known for issuing SSL certificates automatically, and being easier to configure than his more famous relatives. It's worth checking out! https://youtu.be/Vq-cKnQGevU It's been a bit since we released a new video, but hopefully you enjoy this one. 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!

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/

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

HelioHost is happy to announce that we now support PHP 8.5 on the Morty plan. The Tommy plan will be upgraded to have PHP 8.5 soon, and after that Johnny will have it installed too.

Should be fixed. /tmp was full again...

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.

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

Krydos can install this for you.

This might help you too

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

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.

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

Looks like the Apache restart finished or has been unstuck, though the server is still seeing quite a bit of load. Your website is currently up.

Domains added, they'll take effect in about forty five minutes.

Main domain changed. It can take up to 2 hours to start working.

Your account has been reset. When the reset finishes, you'll receive an email with a link to create a new account. Please let us know if you need anything else.

So you're trying to consolidate existing properties on Google...got it. Record added.

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

WSGI control access has been enabled on the domain casamarcial.com.br. To restart your Flask app and load new code changes in simply edit /home/talesaz.heliohost.us/casamarcial.com.br/michi/flask.wsgi. Adding a blank line, removing a blank line, adding a space, or removing a space are examples of editing the file. As long as the last modified timestamp changes it will clear the server cache. Let us know if you run into any issues.

I've added that domain to 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/Addon_Domains#Custom_Addon_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

Got a response already...the backup system is still down due to the recent outage. We're waiting on our provider to turn a storage appliance on for us...so yeah, just try again later/tomorrow.

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

Thank you so much for updating my main domain and creating a backup beforehand—I really appreciate your help and care. I’ll follow the DNS instructions and wait for the changes to take effect. Your free hosting service makes a huge difference for students and developers like me.

It's just not supported. Plesk doesn't officially have the listings enabled by default, so we made changes to have it do that (it was the same behavior our old cPanel servers had, we were tired of support tickets to explain the 403 error that Plesk showed by default, users preferred it and often asked for them to be enabled, and it often makes abuse stand out since they wouldn't hide the listing and leave files like "script phising.zip" in their root...yes that was a real file we found). Specifically, we forced it in the Apache config. Apache doesn't always let you override that option for some reason (the Options line in general doesn't very work well on Plesk). The easiest way to accomplish this on our service is to just put an empty index.html in the folder...

I've never used phpMyAdmin on Hestia before, but I would assume you can login using your database username and database password.

Apologise for my question i should check before i ask , looks like the packages are already there fastapi 0.115.12 uvicorn 0.34.2 Installed Modules (Site Packages) https://krydos1.heliohost.org/pyinfo/info3.12.py

Domains added. They can take up to 2 hours to function. Also, I noticed you're using Cloudflare. If you haven't already done so, be sure to update your A and AAAA records, as the IP addresses changed when the account moved to Morty.

Here's the payment link for Paypal https://heliohost.org/vps/pay/?code=AXGgNOvSGk45K2xt

Set.

Sorry by mistake I created two post and I tried to delete it but there isn't any option to do that. I will keep that in mind. Thanks for your help

Yep, it worked. Your account is moving to Tommy. Thanks for the donation. I also noticed that you randomly received a review email. We would be really happy if you could click the link in the email to give us a 5 star review. It will only take you a couple minutes to write a sentence or two about your support request today, and it goes a long way to help us out. We recommend using the link that was emailed to you because 5 star reviews that don’t click the email link pretty much all get deleted. Our volunteers don't get paid in money because we are a non-profit, but our volunteers do get paid in smiles whenever someone lets us know they appreciate our work by giving a 5 star review. Thanks again!

Soo as it turns out, on Jonny you can safely place your .env file in the root of your app and the server will automatically prevent it from being served to a client. for this sample project, the path is load_dotenv("/home/dkobrin.helioho.st/flask.dkobrin.helioho.st/MyNewFlaskApp/.env") as an extra layer of safety I am also adding the following to my .htaccess file instructing Apache to deny requests for .env files #hide .env files from http access <FilesMatch ".env"> Order allow,deny Deny from all </FilesMatch>

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

Not sure what you're even asking for. root@control [~]# dig +short A @ns1.heliohost.org webmail.tenkyuu.dev 64.62.151.106 root@control [~]# dig +short A @ns2.heliohost.org webmail.tenkyuu.dev 64.62.151.106 root@control [~]# dig +short AAAA @ns1.heliohost.org webmail.tenkyuu.dev 2001:470:1:1ee::2009 root@control [~]# dig +short AAAA @ns2.heliohost.org webmail.tenkyuu.dev 2001:470:1:1ee::2009 root@control [~]# dig +short A @ns1.heliohost.org webmail.bochard.net 64.62.151.106 root@control [~]# dig +short A @ns2.heliohost.org webmail.bochard.net 64.62.151.106 root@control [~]# dig +short AAAA @ns1.heliohost.org webmail.bochard.net 2001:470:1:1ee::2009 root@control [~]# dig +short AAAA @ns2.heliohost.org webmail.bochard.net 2001:470:1:1ee::2009 The DNS looks fine to me. Did you enable webmail in the mail settings? We were discussing this in the admin channel and our policy is when people decide they want to swap their main domain and an addon domain, like you just did, we will be requiring them to reset their account and start over entirely because we've done like 15 of these addon domain to main domain swaps now and every single one of them have broken the account in some irreparable way and the result is they end up needing to do a reset anyways. Looks like you broke your account by doing this as well. We usually try to talk people out of it because it's so much work for something that ultimately doesn't matter at all which domain is main and which domain is the addon.

thank you.

it's okay now. thank youuuu @Unknown025!!!

Perhaps an administrator can weigh in on this, especially so you don't get flagged as having multiple accounts. As far as managing DNS records or addon domains, if you want to make requests on his behalf, I'm sure something can be arranged as long as we also get his written permission (either an email or a forum post) to make sure it's okay.

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!

I have no idea what Uberspace is or how they do their billing. We're going to offer a subscription option where you pay $1 up front for the first month, and then are billed for any days you went over 100 GB memory at the rate of $0.0005 per 1 GB memory or if you go over the 10k CPU limit at the rate of $0.005 per 1k CPU. Then at the end of the month you pay $1.00 plus any overages for the previous month. We're also going to offer an option to signup for Morty without a monthly subscription by pre-paying some amount, and then your balance is reduced each day. When you get low on funds you get a reminder to do some more prepaid amount or switch to a subscription. We're also going to offer a 16% discount on prepaid plans versus paying monthly.

Will the Morty dashboard's billing in the future go through a prepaid subscription a la Uberspace or it will be a regular postpaid subscription like other services?

During the recent upgrade of the Tommy server we identified a bug partway through the move that caused SFTP to not work correctly after the account was on the new server. We fixed the bug in the move process, but several hundred accounts were moved prior to the fix. If your account was moved early in the migration, SFTP probably hasn't been working for you for the last week or so. We're happy to announce that all of the accounts on Tommy should now have functional SFTP again. If you're still having issues please let us know so we can take a closer look at your particular account.

I also use an external DNS (Cloudflare). I think you should also mention in the e-mail the need to update the MX and SPF records, if applicable.

Hello, file is still in the same path, I didn't delete it. Plus the other pre-existing py files give the same error too. I login with "pyknite" user on this url https://tommy2.heliohost.org:8443/smb/file-manager/list

Your account was transferred from cPanel. Those old transfer accounts have all sorts of strange bugs. Since we have so few transfer accounts left, and there are no new transfer accounts being created I no longer waste my time trying to fix them. As long as people don't have any issues with these ancient accounts we just leave them alone, but as soon as they start to have bugs the first thing we recommend is a reset. If you can't get it to work on your own the only remaining option is to do a reset. This process deletes all your current content and recreates your account with all the default settings which fixes all the strange cPanel transfer issues because the account is created directly on Plesk. If you want to switch your main domain back to the old Tommy to get the website working again immediately we can do that, and then we can allow you to have 2 accounts at once, one on the old Tommy and one on the new Tommy. Then once you get everything working on the new Tommy we can move your main domain to the new account as well.

I just started your account move to the new Tommy. We would appreciate any feedback on how well the move works, or if there are any issues.

We are proud to announce the release of the brand new Official HelioHost Wiki This brand new wiki contains articles which answer many of the commonly asked questions which people ask on HelioNet as well as troubleshooting solutions. Furthermore, the articles constructed on the wiki are written and created by users like yourself who like to share their experiences with the community. Take a look... wiki.helionet.org To contribute to the wiki, you will need more than 20 posts on HelioNet. If you have 20 posts or more, and you wish to contribute, then please reply to this topic with your cPanel username, and I will PM you with a changeable username and password. We also value your feedback - please reply to this topic with any questions or feedback. Thanks,