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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.

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.

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

Our old nameservers broke, and we had to transfer all of the zone records to the new DNS servers. It seems like some of the zone records didn't get transferred correctly though. I flagged your post in the Staff channel, and the DNS has been recreated for you. Your website loads for me now. If you can't see it, please try clearing your browser cache. If you're a Discord user, you can keep an eye on the HelioHost #News channel for updates when maintenance is happening. If you haven't yet joined the Discord, here's the link to join if you want. For other users who may see this post: If your website is down and it says DNS_PROBE or some similar error please let us know (by making a new post in the support section at: HelioHost > Customer Service) which domain(s) of yours is having the problem, so the DNS can be recreated for you.

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

We're increasing the domain limit on the Morty server from 10 to 15! After a year of running our newest plan, Morty, we are still seeing great performance. This plan has nearly perfect uptime, great speeds, and Apache still restarts quite quickly. Therefore we are increasing the domain limit on Morty. If you need more than 15 domains you're welcome to create multiple Morty accounts, or switch to one of our VPS plans which allow unlimited domains. On the other hand, our free Johnny plan is still quite overcrowded and slow. In order to help speed up the server we're reducing the domain limit from 10 to 5. Our mission as a non-profit is to provide free hosting to as many people in need as we can. Our mission is NOT to provide free hosting to just a few people who each have a ridiculous number of domains. We think it best supports our mission to set a reasonable limit to make sure a few entitled people don't hog all of our free resources. If you need more than 5 domains you can make a one-time donation of only $2 to move to Tommy and have 10 domains available, or upgrade to Morty or a VPS. There are a few Johnny users who currently have more than 5 domains, and they will be allowed to keep their current domains for now, but if they want to add or change any of their domains, they will be required to comply with our new limit or upgrade to a plan that supports more domains. Let us know if you have any questions about the updating domain limits.

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.

This has been renewed.

Thank you for the unsuspension. I have removed 2 php scripts from my account that act as proxy.

This support request is being escalated to our root admins.

Great. Thank you. I only was unsure if I have to do some other steps. I will try it later.

Your current balance is $6.6407 plus $15 plus $3 bonus brings your new total to $24.6407. Based on your load for the last 30 days your new estimated expiration date is 2026-08-24. If your load increases this could run out sooner or if your load decreases it could last longer though. We'll email you occasionally to let you know how your balance is being used. Thanks for increasing your Morty balance.

DKIM, SPF, and DMARC have been set up for all your domains.

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

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

Morty is getting upgraded! Our fastest and most up-to-date server is getting even faster and even more up-to-date. We will be starting a major upgrade soon, and wanted to let you know what to expect if you're on the Morty plan. What is changing: PHP: All of the versions of PHP currently available on Morty will still be available after the upgrade. Node.js: We are adding versions 25 and 24. All other versions of Node.js currently available on Morty will remain available after the upgrade. Python: We are adding version 3.14. Version 3.9 will remain the same. Version 3.12 will be removed. Django: We are adding version 6.0.4 running on Python 3.14. We are removing version 6.0.3 running on Python 3.12. Flask: We are adding version 3.1.3 running on Python 3.14. We are removing version 3.0.3 running on Python 3.12. Unfortunately, we don't have a way of tracking which accounts are using which Python modules right now. So if you're using any modules, please take a look at https://morty2-info.heliohost.org/pyinfo/info3.14.py as soon as possible, and request any modules that you'll need that aren't already available. In the future, we plan to add a system for tracking which modules each account needs, allowing us to pre-install them before an account is moved. For now, you will need to re-request them. You can reply to this email or click the contact support button below to let us know if any modules you need are missing. Another thing to keep in mind during an upgrade like this is that your IP address will be changing. If you use our nameservers, ns1.heliohost.org and ns2.heliohost.org, your DNS records will be updated to the new values for you. If you use external DNS, such as Cloudflare, you'll need to manually update your DNS records yourself. You will receive an email with the correct values when it's time to change them. If you don't want downtime due to incorrect DNS records, you could temporarily use our DNS until you're moved, and then go back to the external DNS afterwards. You will receive an email when your account begins its migration to the new hardware, and a second email when the move has completed. We are taking volunteers to be the first ones to experience the upgraded speed and features, so if you're ready to move, let us know. If you need a little more time to make sure your website is ready for the upgrade, let us know, and we can move you to the end of the list too. If we don't hear from your we will assume you're ready to move now. Let us know if you have any questions.

Is there an estimate for when the maintenance will be completed? My website (ateus.net) has been offline for days.

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

Here are the DNS records gab.pt.eu.org. 14400 IN TXT "v=spf1 ip4:64.62.151.106 ip6:2001:470:1:1ee::2009 ~all" _dmarc 14400 IN TXT "v=DMARC1; p=quarantine" _domainkey.gab.pt.eu.org. 14400 IN TXT "o=-" default._domainkey.gab.pt.eu.org. 14400 IN TXT ( "v=DKIM1; k=rsa; p=MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAlhoaveQHXrnhdK5QpkflFQXGGchTtTizdX3qnpBLQjPvOi4PNkgA2Rn2G9AYDg9z8MFH86l+MOYuOy9gOhoVHMZvVtDM5i+g/YOfKz3l5YxNb8+ltLjivU2541UyryG6leONKkOb2+mWC2vZJ7o3+Wl0G6pXHuo8xZC03t6F8ywjFoD3lbJbutc+tc+yXJIrA" "cyEAOhdk0KdRvK/RDlVJQS02F/eXEovAnwU/lGYEifYuLelEtpxiplCAT2oMFkSRbzxqsvg990jbAdrtaHgmIicRal3P53VJJGQ3v+21dJFKjkwgAxve94FaXchvJSUKonQn/VBnuXgWXJQsIvPvQIDAQAB;" ) You can either change your NS records to ns1.heliohost.org and ns2.heliohost.org or copy those into your external DNS provider.

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

Thank you. I'll keep it in mind for next time

Installed. https://php83.krydos1.heliohost.org/

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 Happy programming! ?

Indeed, after a little wait, everything is now in order. Thank you!

You can do this yourself, refer to this wiki article for details: https://wiki.helionet.org/MariaDB#User_Section

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

Yeah, I don't really understand why you're even doing this. Why not make a PHP file that reads the contents of another .php, and displays the contents? That seems infinitely easier, and more secure. For instance, index_source.php could show the source of index.php.

Krydos can do this for you.

Dear Heliohost crew, I needed VPS closer geographically, that is, in Europe, and currently don't need a service in USA. Thank you for being my first provider, thanks to you I was able to host stuff for myself and friends. Until next time

Domain added, it'll take effect in about twenty minutes. You'll need to create an A/AAAA record to Morty's IP or switch to HelioHost's nameservers if you haven't already.

Removing the current main domain would delete all the content in it. We could re-add it as an addon domain, but you'd need to re-upload your content. I'd recommend you make an account backup, and download it to your local computer first: https://wiki.helionet.org/Account_Backups#Making_Your_Own_Manual_Account_Backup Then we can make the domain changes for you, and you can then rebuild the new domain with the backed up files. Please let us know once you've made the backup and downloaded it.

Thank you for the quick assist!

Oh, thank you very much!

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

An administrator will be able to do this for you in the morning (i.e. in about eight hours).

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.

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.

Last night Tommy threw a little tantrum because Morty is getting all the attention lately. It's ok, Tommy. We still love you. First the main Tommy IP address stopped routing correctly, then when that was fixed Apache and Nginx broke, and then while we were repairing that MariaDB started having issues as well. Everything should be more or less working now, but there may be a few things you need to do to get your website back online. Known Issue #1) When we run the repair tool on Apache and Nginx it always messes up most of the SSL certificates. This should fix itself after a day or two, but you can speed the process by reissuing the certificate manually. We even have a guide to help you located at https://wiki.helionet.org/common-errors/ssl-certificate Known Issue #2) A lot of the MariaDB passwords and permissions got messed up as well. This is not something that is going to resolve itself. So if you're having trouble connecting to PHPMyAdmin or your website is giving database connection errors you'll need to follow the guide we have located at https://wiki.helionet.org/common-errors/phpmyadmin-mariadb-access-denied Let us know if you notice anything else broken, or you have trouble with either of the guides above.

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.

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.

The fonts are stored under /blitzortung/fonts/ . Does this help you to diagnose the error?

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.

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