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You can pay for one month at https://www.heliohost.org/vps/pay/?mem=2&cpu=2&hdd=50&os=ubuntu20&sub=1month You can pay for 6 months at https://www.heliohost.org/vps/pay/?mem=2&cpu=2&hdd=50&os=ubuntu20&sub=6month And of course you can cancel your VPS at any time and move back to Tommy when it's available.

You're on Johnny. That server isn't done backing up yet. Only Tommy and Ricky are done. Johnny is estimated to finish in 3 days.

Yes, your account is in the backup system.

Go to https://www.heliohost.org/backup/ Enter your username and email address. Check your email for the download link. Download your cpmove-free3.tar.gz file. Extract the file on your computer. Navigate to cpmove-free3/homedir/mail/slideshare.heliohost.org/ Each directory here is a different email address. Your emails are files located in the /cur/ directory of each email address with names like 1624619090.M994159P18382.ricky.heliohost.org,S=31576,W=32036:2,S

You have to realize that the purpose of most hosting companies is to make as much money as possible. They know the same thing we do, that Wordpress causes insane amounts of load, but rather than suspend people for it they try to milk the situation for as much money as they can. Rather than tell you how much load you're causing and trying to fix the problem they do stupid tricks like making their free hosting unusable to force you to upgrade to a paid plan. Seriously, every website should have SSL in 2021. The only reason to not provide free SSL is if you're trying to force people to upgrade to a paid plan. HelioHost's main purpose is to provide free hosting to as many students, the underprivileged, small businesses, and everyone else that can't afford paid hosting. We try to be as honest about everything as we can be, and we definitely don't play any tricks to try to force you to upgrade.

A lot of Wordpress users are switching to this

Go to https://www.heliohost.org/backup/ Enter your username and email address. Check your email for the download link. Download your cpmove-notron07.tar.gz file. Extract the file on your computer. Navigate to cpmove-notron07/mysql/ Copy the .sql files you need.

https://www.heliohost.org/backup/

Generally we try to provide free hosting to as many people as possible. Why provide free hosting to only 5 Wordpress users when we can provide free hosting to 500 non-Wordpress users that cause the same amount of load?

Tommy is working right now. If you had an account on Tommy your website is still online. In order to install Plesk though we're going to have to wipe the server and reinstall the operating system. During that time Tommy accounts will be offline. We've never built a Plesk server before so it might take quite a while due to having to rewrite a lot of our internal tools as well. We're hoping we can have Tommy back online within a month.

I did a spam test on the email before I sent it and one of the warnings I got was about the phrase "trying to charge us over $17,000 per year to renew them." It ranks pretty high on spam filters because it mentions of a large sum of money. Normally I rewrite my emails to avoid triggering spam tests like this, but there really isn't any way to explain cPanel's hijacking and ransom request without emphasizing how much they're trying to charge us to get our servers back. Also, for what it's worth, I have an account with a Hotmail email address and I received the email just fine so it's not like all Hotmail/Microsoft emails were flagged as spam.

Of course. I'll start building your VPS in a bit and email you the credentials to log in. Yeah, it's not hard at all. It just takes 2 commands: wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hestiacp/hestiacp/release/install/hst-install.sh This wget command saves the Hestia installer to your VPS. bash hst-install.sh --interactive no --email email@domain.tld --password p4ssw0rd --hostname hostname.domain.tld -f And that command runs the installer. Just change your email address, password, and hostname. Then it just runs for 15 minutes or so installing everything it needs and then it gives you the login url and asks you to reboot the VPS.

The domain abbodmar.heliohost.us now points at your VPS, and Hestia has been installed. Let us know if you need help with anything else.

Which folder?

Changed.

No, you don't. You can use any DNS service you want for your VPS. Actually right now I recommend using external DNS such as through Cloudflare or through your domain registrar. Both of our nameservers run cPanel too so they will need to be rebuilt which means we will have some downtime on our nameservers as well over the next couple weeks.

You were sent an email. Perhaps check your spam folder? If it's not there complain to Comcast I guess.

Only active accounts were added to the backup database. Since his account was archived before cPanel revoked the licenses it wasn't added automatically. I emailed you the link.

Your site will remain online without access to cPanel until we need to take that server down to rebuild it. So Tommy will be taken down soon, probably today or tomorrow. Once Tommy is done Ricky will be next, and after that Johnny. We've never installed Plesk before and a lot of our internal tools will need to be rewritten to work with Plesk so it may be a few weeks that your site is offline. We're hoping to have Tommy back online within a month.

One of the clauses in the contract I signed with Plesk stipulates that they have to give us 30 days prior written warning if they want to revoke our licenses. They seem really excited to supply the non-profit licenses for us though so that probably won't happen.

Yes, Hestia is what we recommend for our VPS if people want a free control panel. We decided to go with Plesk because it will run on our Windows server as well as our Linux servers.

Sorry, we've been pretty busy because of cPanel revoking our licenses. Later today you should receive an email explaining how to download your full backup.

Remind me on Wednesday.

There are two basic steps to adding a new domain to a VPS Set the A record for the domain on your DNS provider to the ipv4 of your VPS. Add the domain to your Apache or Nginx configuration. For instance if you're using Apache on Ubuntu 20 you could create the file /etc/apache2/sites-available/newdomain.conf and then symlink a copy of that file to /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ to enable it. Here is some instructions to do this https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-20-04/ If you're using Nginx instead of Apache it will be similar.

Removing those quotation marks fixed it. Someone just signed up for a VPS and their subscription says it will continue billing each month rather than billing once and then stopping.