HelioHost Posted July 2, 2024 Posted July 2, 2024 Username: N/A, Server: N/A, Main Domain: N/AHello Helio Host Team, Hope you are doing well. I have a few questions if you can help me please. Btw, i'm planning to avail the Tommy 25USD plan. 1. Do you guys run on top of AWS, Azure, or Google CP? 2. I want to host a postgresql database and a webapi for a small project I am working on, is it allowed to run it in your hosting where I make a profit from said projects? I dont expect much traffic, prolly 500-1000 request per day on the webapi, and maybe less than 2000 read/writes on postgre. 3. I looked into your documentation, how difficult is it to set up a .net 8 web api? Thank you for your time. And please know that you are doing an amazing job with Helio! Cheers! E
Krydos Posted July 2, 2024 Posted July 2, 2024 1. Nope. Our servers all belong to us. We don't rent from anyone. 2. Yes, you can make a profit as long as you don't violate any of our other terms https://wiki.helionet.org/hosting/terms 3. We have a Windows Server that runs all of our .NET stuff. Once you have an account on Tommy just request the .NET addon account, and we can set that up for you. I'm not entirely sure whether we support .NET 8 though so I'll let Wolstech, the admin that manages the Windows Server, answer that.
wolstech Posted July 2, 2024 Posted July 2, 2024 1. No. We own our hardware and rent a rack from a data center in California. 2. Yes. You can use the service commercially. Postgres databases are supported provided the database fits in your account. There is no bandwidth or query limit, however CPU and memory usage are limited. Remote access requires a support request, which will be required for a .NET app to access it, since .NET apps live on a different server, see below. Note that even with database activity, you still have to log into the Plesk panel once every 30 days to keep the account active. 3. An admin has to assist with setting .NET apps up in most cases. The only .NET support offered is with a Lily account, an "extension account" you can request via support once you have a Plesk account on one of our linux servers, the Lily account acts as a second account on our Windows server to give you ASP.NET support. Note that .NET 6 is the latest version supported at the moment, though it might be possible for us to add v8 (you're the first to express interest in it!) We currently support 3.5 - 6.0 as well as classic ASP. Note that Lily has no control panel, just FTP, and the Plesk on Tommy cannot control the Lily account. An admin has to change many settings for you on a Lily account, though some like URL rewrite and file handlers can be self-configured by using the web.config file. We plan to eventually offer a proper Plesk-based Windows server for a better .NET experience that doesn't require admin support and a clunky "Windows extension" to our linux hosting offering, but this is currently a roadmap item with no ETA due to more pressing projects.
HelioHost Posted July 2, 2024 Author Posted July 2, 2024 Thank you for your response team! @Wolstech, do you think its possible to setup a CI/CD for the webapi? Also, is there a way to contact you guys that is not posted in the public forum? :) Cheers! e
wolstech Posted July 2, 2024 Posted July 2, 2024 Lily cannot run code builds/compiles on the server side for resource reasons, so hosted continuous integration would not really be viable, though deployment can definitely be automated. You'd need to build the program elsewhere, but since there are ways to automate stopping the app on the server by creating a file, so you could run a script on your end that creates the stop file, waits 5 minutes (and perhaps builds the program in the meantime?), uploads your new binaries, then creates a start file to reload it, which would allow automating deployment of the program. Assuming the files are small enough to upload quickly, a deployment can be done in ~10-15 minutes. Lily is rather funnily the only server where private support does exist at the moment, and it's usually done by PMing me on the forums. Lily is only done that way because it is highly specialized and I'm the only one supporting it (the other mods and admins only support the linux/Plesk side of the service). To give an idea, we have just 17 Windows users, but ~2000 linux users. We are looking into paid private support options for Plesk due to demand (it's a very common request), but don't offer such at this time.
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