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Johnny Back Online - Johnny has been powered back on, and everything seems to be working. Let us know if you notice any issues. helionet.org/index/topic/67…

Short Johnny Downtime - We are currently doing maintenance in our datacenter, and we are going to be powering off Johnny, and a few VPS for a short period. We'll make another news post once everything is back online. helionet.org/index/topic/67…

Terms Update - We're updating our Terms of Service. Our Terms explain what you can expect from us when using our services, and what we expect from you as a user of our services. You can find the updated Terms at the following URL: ... helionet.org/index/topic/67…

Tommy Email Issues - It looks like the upgrades from yesterday broke some of the email functionality of the Tommy server. Webmail wasn't working and receiving emails was failing as well. However, sending emails continued working. Web... helionet.org/index/topic/67…

Tommy PHP Upgrade - PHP 8.5 is now available on both our Tommy and Morty plans. We will be installing PHP 8.5 on the free Johnny server in a few weeks as well. We've also taken the opportunity to upgrade Plesk to the latest version a... helionet.org/index/topic/67…

More Free Accounts - Since our Johnny server is scheduled to be upgraded to faster hardware soon, so we've decided to increase the number of free accounts that we allow new users to create each day. After increasing the limits a few ... helionet.org/index/topic/66…

Domain Limits - We're increasing the domain limit on the Morty server from 10 to 15! After a year of running our newest plan, Morty, we are still seeing great performance. This plan has nearly perfect uptime, great speeds, and Apach... helionet.org/index/topic/66…

PHP 8.5 - HelioHost is happy to announce that we now support PHP 8.5 on the Morty plan. The Tommy plan will be upgraded to have PHP 8.5 soon, and after that Johnny will have it installed too. helionet.org/index/topic/66…

Power Outage - This morning the city in California where our datacenter is located had a power outage. It took the city a few hours to restore the power, but once the power was back on all of our servers booted up. Everything should ... helionet.org/index/topic/66…

Caddy Webserver on HelioHost - You've probably heard of Apache and Nginx, but have you heard about Caddy? In this video we show you how to install the Caddy webserver software on your VPS. Caddy is known for issuing SSL certificates ... helionet.org/index/topic/65…

Modded Minecraft on HelioHost - Here is the second video in our Minecraft series. This video documents how to set up a modded Minecraft server on a HelioHost VPS. youtu.be/Fgmzvrtu7sA We are going to try to continue r... helionet.org/index/topic/64…

Minecraft on HelioHost - One of the most common questions we get is "Can I run a Minecraft server on HelioHost?" The answer is yes, and we've made a video tutorial on how to get started. youtu.be/JAXDD7VYHUk We are go... helionet.org/index/topic/64…

Tommy Donation Amounts - When we started offering Tommy accounts as a thank you gift to people who donated $1 or more back in 2016 the fees on each dollar were 3 cents, and we got 97 cents. That's 3% fees. Fast forward 9 years, and t... helionet.org/index/topic/64…

No More Ads - HelioHost is happy to announce that we're disabling ads across all of our websites and hosting plans, including the free Johnny plan, starting now. Back in 2008 through 2016 or so HelioHost was 100% funded by ads, and ... helionet.org/index/topic/64…

Free Signups Reopening - Free signups on the Johnny server will be reopening in about 10 hours since the maintenance for the last week has been completed. The performance of PHP should be much faster than before, and the number of 50... helionet.org/index/topic/64…

Johnny Maintenance - We have closed free signups on the Johnny server temporarily to do some maintenance on the server. This is the same work that we did on the Tommy server recently to improve the speed and uptime of PHP software. W... helionet.org/index/topic/64…

Google Trust Services Video - Happy Memorial Day everyone! HelioHost has released a new YouTube video on how to issue a Google Trust Services certificate on a VPS. Check it out and subscribe at youtu.be/qXp6pw_aV0w We... helionet.org/index/topic/64…

WSGI Restart Beta - Thank you to everyone who helped beta test our WSGI restart access for Flask and Django apps. We now have enough data from the testing to end the beta. We have determined that enabling WSGI restart access uses at ... helionet.org/index/topic/64…

MariaDB and PHP Install Video - HelioHost has released a new YouTube video on how to install MariaDB and PHP on a VPS. Check it out and subscribe at youtu.be/IbUi2gcLbuA We are going to try to continue releasing new v... helionet.org/index/topic/64…

503 Errors Update - We have made some changes to the Tommy server to help reduce the number of 503 errors, and speed up the execution of PHP scripts. The feedback we've gotten so far seems to indicate that it is working. We have also... helionet.org/index/topic/64…