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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
Let's Encrypt Rate LimitWe've already reached the rate limit for new Let's Encrypt certificates for domains being transferred to Plesk. This means if your account is transferred to Plesk right now it will not automatically get an SSL certificate. We've contacted Let's Encrypt to request a rate limit increase, but it will likely be several weeks before we hear back from them. Hopefully they grant the rate limit increase, but it's a possibility they will deny the req... Read moreETA Donation Amounts
As we said earlier, Johnny was shutdown due to a large number of accounts getting hacked. Therefore we will be giving all existing Johnny users new accounts on Plesk rather than transferring the compromised accounts. Last night we went through the ETA database and changed all of the existing Johnny accounts to be new accounts. This means that there won't be a position listed currently since we haven't implemented new account creation yet. Once ne... Read moreHelioHost's Resurrection
Happy Easter everyone! If you're not familiar with Christianity the meaning of Easter is to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus after his death by crucifixion. Therefore, I think this is a fitting day to celebrate the resurrection of HelioHost as well. Last year we were surprised to learn that our cPanel licenses that we've been using for 16 years were revoked and they tried to extort us for over $17,000 which we obviously can't afford becau... 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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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, or Syria.
Testimonials
I rate this site a 10/10 for the the great features it offers. The cpanel is phenomenal. Their forum comes with friendly staff and great members. I highly recommend this web site for anyone wanting the best FREE hosting service.
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What positively struck me as nice is that the admins aren't like other admins which do not even go on their own forums and post. Nice bandwidth also! Recommended. I have used it for 1 month and it is pretty good, but having to switch back to ULMB (unlimitedmb.com). It is a fairly medium-fast server. Sometimes it has login problems, but within the next minute or 2 it is working again. It provides nice features like perl scripting support.
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