Krydos

By default the VPS are just a bare os with nothing installed. You can request a control panel, or you can install it yourself. A popular free control panel that a lot of people use is Hestia. If you install a control panel it installs apache, email, php, mysql and everything for you. You can of course install everything manually without a control panel too. One advantage that Hestia has is there is a cPanel to Hestia converter script that you can use to import your cpmove file that you can download from https://www.heliohost.org/backup/ and it automatically extracts your files, and databases, and emails, and domains and everything into the Hestia control panel. If you want I can install Hestia and import your backup file for you, or you have root access so you can do it yourself if you want too. Just let us know.

Yes, VPS can easily be upgraded or downgraded. If you decide to downgrade your hard drive space, it can be done, but the operating system has to be reinstalled fresh again. Upgrading is easy though.

You're welcome.

Yeah, maybe we could ask for $17,000 ransom to get their CEO back alive. Just doing the same thing cPanel does to everyone else.

Yes, your domain is working fine for now, but we'll need to eventually shut down the Johnny server and rebuild it with Plesk. While the server is offline your site will be down. The VPS are regular Linux virtual machines. For most uses the basic Mercury plan is enough, but if you need more memory, cpus, hard drive space, or an OS other than Ubuntu 20 you can customize it. For backups of VPS you can just download the files you need to your home pc using SFTP or rsync or anything else that you want to install. Support for a VPS is basically the same as support for a shared hosting account. You can email, post on the forums, ask on discord, etc.

root@tommy [/home/esn024/public_html/animatsiya/subtitles]# ls -la|wc -l 828 Yeah, you're right. Not sure why the script would have gotten some of the files, but not all of them.

When we rebuild the server with Plesk we will attempt to restore all the cPanel accounts onto the new control panel. We've never done it before, but all files and databases, and emails and everything should be transferred over automatically. If anything is missing you can extract it from the full backup and set it back up. You won't lose your domain.

We will be providing free hosting again as soon as we rebuild our servers with Plesk.

There's some Wordpress to Joomla converters listed in here https://extensions.joomla.org/category/migration-a-conversion/data-import-a-export/ I didn't see any free ones though, but maybe I missed it skimming through quickly.

It looks like our ISP finally restarted their nameservers. root@tommy [/home/krydos]# dig +noall +answer -x 65.19.141.201 201.141.19.65.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN CNAME 201.subnet192.141.19.65.in-addr.arpa. 201.subnet192.141.19.65.in-addr.arpa. 14400 IN PTR mail.itslucas.win.

Does it run on both Windows and Linux?

Our end is set up, just waiting on our ISP to delegate reverse dns control of that /28 to us.

You can do comments on a static CMS using javascript. Yeah, Joomla is better than Wordpress. A lot of people find the admin section not as user friendly, but I don't think I've ever seen someone get suspended for high Joomla load.

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.