About Us
We're a 501(c)(3) non-profit 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 tax deductible 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 inodes.
- We're supported by an active community of volunteers who you can find on our support forums, in our Discord server, and even via telephone.
- We've been offering free web hosting services to the community for over 21 years.
Our service is not free to run, and in fact seven of the last ten years we have lost money. Please help support our mission of providing full-featured web hosting for free by donating today.
News
Johnny Maintenance FinishedThe maintenance on Johnny has been completed, and everything is back online. Let us know if you notice anything acting weird. Read moreJohnny Maintenance
We will be doing scheduled maintenance on the Johnny plan starting on Monday August 10th starting at about 17:00 UTC. The Johnny server will be offline for several hours, all websites hosted on the Johnny plan will be offline, users on the Johnny plan will not be able to login into their account at heliohost.org or login to Plesk for the duration of the maintenance. We will make a news post once the Johnny server is back online and has been resto... Read moreTommy Upgrade
Tommy is getting upgraded! Johnny may have thrown a tantrum and demanded to jump ahead of his place in line, but our exclusive donor server hasn't been forgotten, and is finally going to get even faster and even more up-to-date. We will be starting a major upgrade soon, and wanted to let you know what to expect. What is changing: PHP: All of the versions of PHP currently available on Tommy will still be available after the upgra... Read more
Scripting Languages
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We offer professional-level PHP 5, PHP 7, and PHP 8 hosting with safe-mode disabled. Installed libraries include cURL, GD, Sockets, XML RPC, and many more.
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We offer multiple versions of Node.js on all of our plans. As an asynchronous event-driven JavaScript runtime, Node.js is designed to build scalable network applications.
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We are one of the very few free webhosts in the world to offer .NET scripting with our free hosting package.
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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
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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 1000 MB of data for free on the HelioHost servers. When that is full you can upgrade to a paid plan with higher storage. You can transfer your data to and from your account with Plesk file manager, FTP, FTPS, or SFTP.
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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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Please note: HelioHost is a US based organization so federal regulations prohibit us from accepting donations or even providing free service to anyone in Iran, Cuba, and North Korea.
Testimonials
I have been using this site for a few months now. The freeweb space and bandwidth is REALLY great. My web site did get dropped in 2 separate occasions but was back up and running within a day or two, and within that time period there was notification of the problem on their forums which are constantly updated by the admins themselves.
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HelioHost has provides people with free php and database hosting and it doesn't push people to upgrade unlike some other sites, and also it doesn't require people to register to some forums unlike some other sites. Also the lack of ads is appealing... The only negative thing I've discovered so far is that you have to log in every 30 days or your account will get deleted. I'll only see the "your account has been suspended due to inactivity, click here to revive" messages if I remember to check gmail and I might do that more rarely than I edit my site. I've received them two or three times and it has given me a fright that I was too late but so far I have been able to revive it in time.
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