Blu_Haze

Hey, it looks like Stevie is back up and running smoothly now, thanks for that. Unfortunately the cPanel doesn't appear to be configured correctly now that it's been upgraded a bit. You likely are already aware of this, but just in case you weren't I thought I'd start a thread about it. The exact message given when trying to log in is as follows:

Thanks JJE, I appreciate it. I'll try to register a new account tomorrow afternoon.

My apologies if I'm being impatient, the server move wiki said to wait about 48 hours for the account to be deleted and I believe it's been a little over a week now. I was hoping to create a new account over on Stevie soon and the natives are getting restless asking me when the website will be back up heh. Account Name: bluhaze Domain: honor.heliohost.org Old Server: Johnny

I'm on Johnny. Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. Correct, as you said I haven't started moving over to Stevie yet because I want to back up all of my files and the MySQL databases, however I haven't been able to access either the FTP or the cPanel at all today. A few moments ago though I just realized that some software on my computer was blocking connections from both the cPanel and the FTP, my apologies for the confusion on that issue. I look forward to moving over to Stevie soon. Thanks again for everything you guys do here, I appreciate it.

I tried the toolbar at the bottom, but was unsuccessful with that as well. Using that link displayed the same "Unable to Connect" web page as well. Also I noticed that the FTP no longer seems to be working for me either. When I try to connect it says: All of these, the cPanel, and the FTP were working fine for me before.

Alright, thanks that answered my question. I'll start moving my website over to Stevie then to make room for others who are already actively making use of those services. I didn't see this mentioned in the wiki, but once I delete my account is there any way to check to see if it's fully cleared and ready to make the new account? Other than of course just waiting the typical 48 hours lol. Also it seems like both cPanels have been down pretty much all day, both Stevie and Johnny. (http://stevie.heliohost.org:2082/, and http://johnny.heliohost.org:2082 are what I'm using). Are you guys seeing these as down on your end as well?

I'm sure you get threads like this fairly often, so I won't knock you for the somewhat canned response. To be clear, rock solid stability isn't what I'm after, all I'm looking for is usability. For the small amount of traffic that I'm anticipating, I don't mind if it's a little slow during peak times, or even inaccessible once in a while. This is the first time that I've ever used HelioHost though, so I have nothing to compare this experience to. I don't want to jump ship and abandon the possibility of using the extra features in the future if this is only a temporary setback for Johnny. The main reason why I posted this, is because I don't want to be so quick to lay all of the blame on Johnny. Recently I've noticed that even all of helionet.org has been a bit on the slow side, taking half a minute or more to load a thread, which means that it could even be something wrong on my end such as an ISP router being down somewhere. Right now my website over on Johnny is either very slow or even sporadically down for most of the day, and I'm satisfied to wait patiently if this is just something temporary. On the other hand, if this is something that happens all the time, then I'm also content to start moving over to Stevie, even if it means giving up the extra features. I just am not sure if this is a temporary situation or not.

I recently created my first account over on Johnny, and installed a forum for my guild. After everything was set up I noticed that Johnny goes through very frequent intervals of either running normally, running extremely slowly (20+ seconds to load a single page), or even being inaccessible altogether. After doing some research, it is my understanding that Johnny is typically much less stable because of the extra features that it provides such as ASP.net, Ruby on Rails, etc. I do not currently use these features, however I wanted my website to be on Johnny because I have had a prolonged interest in learning and using those new technologies at some point. My question is if this repeated slowness and downtime on Johnny is something that will continue for the foreseeable future, or if this is just something temporary that will clear up in a week or two. I'm running a fairly simple website that doesn't have a great deal of traffic, so rock solid stability isn't important to me. With that said though, it does still have to be usable at least most of the time, currently though I almost always expect it to be either extremely slow or even down altogether. Please don't take this as a complaint, I love that you guys offer free hosting with such a large and attractive amount of features at no extra charge. I'm just trying to plan for the future, and wanting to decide if I should stick it out on Johnny for the extra tools at some point, or wave the white flag and make the move over to Stevie now. Thanks.

I think this is a great idea. Very true, although I was under the impression that something like this would have to be capped at a few hundred extra megabytes. That seems like it should give enough extra space for developers to expand a bit and still not go over the cap, but at the same time wouldn't be enough space to promote abusive file storage.