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About Us
We're a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization powered by a community of hobbyists that offer full-featured web hosting services for free.
- We won't try to upsell you to any paid plans but if you appreciate our service we encourage you to make a donation.
- We own our own hardware, which we operate out of a professional datacenter in Silicon Valley. Having full-stack access enables us to offer features like unmetered bandwidth and unlimited domains.
- We’re supported by an active community of volunteers who you can find on our support forums, in our discord chat room, and even via telephone.
- We’ve been offering free web hosting services to the community for over 12 years.
Our service is not free to run, and in fact in the last year we lost money. Please help support our mission of providing full-featured web hosting for free by donating today.
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Network Upgrade CompleteThe work we were doing on the HelioHost hardware is now done. It took longer than we anticipated so we had to go back the next day to finish. Everything should be online now, and the short downtime is over. Let us know if you notice anything behaving oddly. We should see considerable speed increases for network traffic, and more speed overall; especially on the VPS. Read moreNetwork Upgrade
HelioHost will be upgrading our network hardware in a few hours. This will result in a short downtime for all HelioHost services including the main website, the forums, the wiki, all accounts on Johnny, Ricky, and Tommy, and all VPS. We don't expect the downtime to be very long, and no reboots should be necessary. Read moreTop10-Websitehosting.co.uk
Anna Foster over at Top10-Websitehosting.co.uk has written an article about HelioHost. You can check it out at
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Scripting Languages
We offer professional-level PHP 5 and PHP 7 hosting with safe-mode disabled. Installed libraries include cURL, GD, Sockets, XML RPC, and many more.
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We are one of the very few free webhosts in the world to offer ASP.NET 4.6 scripting with our free hosting package. We use the Mono Project to provide this service.
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With Apache Tomcat users can deploy servlets applications or run stand-alone Java Server Pages. This is a powerful server side scripting in the Java language.
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Ruby on Rails is a web development framework based on the Ruby programming language. You can quickly and easily deploy a modern web application with RoR.
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We offer the Django framework built on top of Python for powerful web application development. Many famous sites such as Pinterest and Instagram run on Django.
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You can run your Python scripts as CGI, or as a cron job. Heliohost runs multiple versions of Python on each server so you can choose which version works best for you.
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Perl is one of the most popular programming languages for web development, and offers powerful string processing capabilities. You can run your Perl scripts as CGI, or cron.
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Services & Features
MySQL is the most popular database engine for open-source web applications. We offer remote access and there is no limit to the number of databases you may create.
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HelioHost offers the PostgreSQL database engine, self-dubbed "the world's most advanced open source database". Full support for foreign keys, joins, views, triggers, and stored procedures.
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SQLite, the most widely deployed database engine, is a software library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine.
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Our web-based control panel makes site management a piece of cake. Administer every facet of your website using simple, point-and-click software.
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HelioHost offers unlimited bandwidth. You won't need to worry about how much your visitors download from your site, because there is no limit.
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You can create your own yourname@yourdomain.com email address with HelioHost. Connect to your emails with webmail or using your favorite email client.
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Store up to 1000mb of data on the HelioHost servers. You can transfer your data to and from your account with cPanel file manager, FTP, FTPS, SFTP, or webdisk.
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With Softaculous automatic script installer you can set up your site within a matter of minutes. All it takes is a single click. Hundreds of popular site software can be installed and kept up to date.
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Testimonials
Heliohost is my personal favorite website. It has many great features, and the forum has really picked up. It is quite interesting: the web site is made for the users by the users (users can vote on certain aspects of the site). Everything is totally free, and top-level domains (such as your own .com/.org/.net domain name) can usually be bought with [posts] on the forums. Everyone who visits heliohost seems to praise it.
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HelioHost is one of the most interesting web site hosts I have seen thus far in my life. While offering a great host of features, free web space, and bandwidth, this is not the area where it shines most. To get the full effect, you must visit its forums; there, with enough posts, you can get ... a free domain name, banner-less web sites, and general forum/web site benefits. In all honesty, this web hosting service is truly a one of a kind wonder. While it has a short delay when registering your site before usage, it is negligible in comparison to the great system HelioHost employs. While not perfect, I recommend this host whole-heartedly.
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