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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.
News
Getting Started with a VPS VideoSince our shared hosting is being upgraded to Plesk a lot of users are switching to, or considering getting VPS hosting instead. To help give people an idea of what a HelioHost VPS is like we've made a short video which covers the signup process, connecting to SSH for the first time, some basic SSH commands, and how to upload files. Check it out and let us know what you think. If you want to try it out for yourself you can signup for your own VPS... Read moreJohnny Backups Done
Johnny is now done backing up too, and links to download the full backups are being emailed to all of the active accounts. If you don't get an email for some reason you can download your backup from https://www.heliohost.org/backup/ If you're having trouble downloading your backup let us know and we can help. The backup files contain all of your files, databases, emails, and all of your cPanel settings. If you need any help extracting the informa... Read moreTommy and Ricky Backups Done
Tommy and Ricky are both done backing up, and links to download the full backups have been emailed to all of the active accounts. If you didn't get an email for some reason you can download your backup from https://www.heliohost.org/backup/ If you're having trouble downloading your backup let us know and we can help. The backup files contain all of your files, databases, emails, and all of your cPanel settings. If you need any help extracting the... Read more
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
I love Heliohost! It allows you have a domain name that you do not have to pay for, as long as you get a good amount of forum posts ... I recommend this for anyone that can not buy a domain with real cash or anyone that want a good web host free.
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You sir should probably grow up a bit and realize how difficult it is to keep a SHARED HOST with so many features up and running with so many users. I would love to see you start your own shared host and see how far you get. If you want uptime with all the features they provide, buy a VPS. Heliohost is the best :D
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