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I'm sure it's possible to do that, but it likely takes a lot more memory than just using traditional shared hosting. We don't have unlimited memory so we try to cram as many people into the memory that we do have as possible. I might experiment with it though some time. Thanks for mentioning it.

Yeah, Bitcoin is great. If people would like to pay for VPS with crypto I would prefer if they paid for at least 6 months at a time because I have to manually keep track of non-PayPal payments and edit the database by hand. If people pay via PayPal the database updates itself and I don't have to do anything. Since we have rather limited staff it's always best to automate things as much as possible. The VPS payments page is working 100% now, but at the time of that post only people with an address in the US could buy a VPS because PayPal thought we needed to physically ship something to them. I fixed that problem by setting NO_SHIPPING flag on the payment. That allows anyone in any country to order a VPS because PayPal knows we're not sending them any physical product.

Since it's not possible to unarchive accounts right now the full backup of your account has been added to https://www.heliohost.org/backup/ This backup contains all files, all databases, all emails, and everything else on your account.

Yes, we've had several reports that email no longer works. What you can do in the meantime is use an external DNS provider, such as Cloudflare, and set your A record to 65.19.143.6 to continue hosting your website on Tommy, and set your MX records to a free email service such as Zoho. We're going to try to transfer your account to Plesk with zero downtime. We're not entirely sure it's going to work quite yet, but when we've proved it is possible we'll make an official news post about it.

Only active accounts were automatically added to the backup system. Since your account was archived it had to be added manually. You should be able to download it from https://www.heliohost.org/backup/ now.

After Johnny we will think about installing Plesk on our Windows server Lily and setting up a new Linux server named Morty too.

We will be migrating Tommy to Plesk first. We've never set up a Plesk server before so we have no idea how long it will take. Maybe a couple weeks. Maybe a couple months. It's hard to say for sure. We also have to rewrite all of our scripts and our main website to support Plesk as well. Ricky will be next and probably won't take nearly as long because we will have the settings and the scripts already written from Tommy. Johnny will be last.

The Lily server doesn't have a control panel so we've always required people to have an account on Johnny, Ricky, or Tommy for the control panel, and then Lily was an addon for the cPanel account. Since Johnny, Ricky, and Tommy don't have control panels right now either it probably won't work at all. Even the admins cannot access the control panel to manage settings for you. We are currently installing Plesk on our servers. The main advantage to Plesk is that it will run on Linux servers like Johnny, Ricky, and Tommy and it will also run on Windows servers like Lily. So eventually we will be able to offer stand-alone Lily accounts that don't rely on having an account on a Linux server too.

Yeah, it could be a while.

It doesn't look like Froxlor will run on Windows.

We're going to try to do a zero downtime transfer for the Tommy accounts to the new Plesk server. It looks like it might be possible, and we'll make an official news post when we know for sure that it will work.

Shoot, wrong link. I meant https://www.heliohost.org/backup/ I'll edit the post above too.

Thanks for the offer to help. I'll keep it in mind if we need some python scripts for anything.

Hestia has been installed and your backup has been restored. I emailed you the Hestia credentials to log in.

Yeah, definitely. You have root SSH access to a VPS so if you got the default Ubuntu 20 operating system you would just run the command sudo apt install git I use git all the time on my personal VPS.

It's $942.50 for 30 days by the way. A full year of Johnny would be $11,310.00.

CPanel is no longer available, and never will be again. You can't update your website right now. It would cost $942.50 USD to activate the cPanel license on Johnny. I suppose you can donate $942.50, but even if you did I wouldn't want to give it to those jerks. It would be much better spent buying a whole new server or something.

Alright, you've been resubscribed. You should get an email when you submit your username and email at https://www.heliohost.org/backup/ You probably get cpanel emails and forum emails still. You have to unsubscribe from those separately.

You're welcome.

You should have already received the SSH login credentials by email. Would you like me to install the free control panel Hestia and restore your backup to the VPS?

We offer different response time and speed depending on which server you choose. Johnny, the server that you are on, is the slowest response time and slowest speed. It isn't intended for production websites. We just offer it for people who don't want to wait for space on a production server, and want to start experimenting immediately. Free signups usually last for 8 hours or so. Ricky is our basic PHP, MySQL, python, and just basic stuff like that. It's a production server so it has decent uptime, but is a little slower than Tommy. Free signups usually last an hour or so. Tommy is our best free server. It offers the most features, such as Java/JSP, and Node.js, and has the best speed and uptime of our free servers. The main downside is Tommy fills within 10 seconds or so each day so it's pretty hard to get a free account. If you don't want to deal with the hassle of trying to signup during a 3-10 second window at midnight UTC you can also make a one-time donation of $1 USD or more to get a Tommy account immediately. We also offer VPS service starting at $4 per month that gives you root access to install anything you want. You can install nginx, mongodb, and other popular services that we don't provide on our free hosting. You get the whole server to yourself so you don't need to worry about memory usage and stuff like that.

Try now.

Johnny will be the last server to be rebuilt. It might be a while.