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 19 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
Softaculous has ReturnedBoth Johnny and Tommy now have fully licensed Softaculous available to everyone to install the latest version of 459 different software packages with just a single click. If you're not familiar with Softaculous it automates the installation of most popular software with the latest version, and can help you easily stay up to date as well. Since we offer free hosting we attract a lot of people who are new to web hosting, and installing some so... Read moreMidnight and Noon
Free signups on Johnny now reset every 12 hours at midnight UTC and noon UTC. For the last 8 years we've been offering new free signups starting at midnight UTC and staying open as long as we can, but also not allowing too many accounts to keep the uptime high. This works great for most of the world. For instance, signups reset at 4pm to 8pm in the US, 10pm in Brazil, 12am in England, 1am in France, 1am in Germany, 2pm in Hawaii, 7pm in Peru... Read morePassword Resets
Password resets are now available without admin assistance through the website at https://heliohost.org/reset/ If you forget the password for your Johnny, Tommy, or VPS account this site should allow you to set a new password after verifying your email address. For the last few years any password reset had to be emailed manually by an admin, which was a lot of work for us, and a hassle for our users. Let us know if you run into any errors while r... Read more
Scripting Languages
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.
Learn MoreWe 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.
Learn MoreWe are one of the very few free webhosts in the world to offer .NET scripting with our free hosting package.
Learn MoreWith 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.
Learn MoreRuby 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.
Learn MoreWe 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.
Learn MoreYou 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.
Learn MorePerl 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.
Learn MoreHelioHost 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.
Learn MoreSQLite, the most widely deployed database engine, is a software library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine.
Learn MoreOur web-based control panel makes site management a piece of cake. Administer every facet of your website using simple, point-and-click software.
Learn MoreHelioHost offers unlimited bandwidth. You won't need to worry about how much your visitors download from your site, because there is no limit.
Learn MoreYou can create your own yourname@yourdomain.com email address with HelioHost. Connect to your emails with webmail or using your favorite email client.
Learn MoreStore 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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Our Global Community
Click to view interactive map. 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, North Korea, or Syria.Testimonials
I have a pingdom uptime check account and the uptime of my site usually is 95+% and I like heliohost.
Ali
MY OLD HOSTING PROVIDERS SUCKED! This is the reason why I'm on HelioHost! It doesn't suck!
Gray