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HelioHost
HelioHost is a web hosting service founded on March 2, 2005, shortly after their forums.1)2) The service is primarily maintained by a group of volunteer administrators, and they rely on community donations as well the advertising revenue from their support pages.
Summary
The service offers three virtual servers for customers to host their website on, but customers are limited to registering one website on one of these virtual servers which are detailed in the list below. Registration for these servers are opened daily at 00:00 UTC and you can check availability as well as their recent uptime on the HelioHost Server Monitor, but you can make a small donation to be guaranteed a spot.
- Ricky - The antiquated server that tries to stabilize itself by limiting what scripts can be used.
- Johnny - The antiquated server that allows dangerous scripts, but suffers from a lot of downtime.
- Tommy - The server that tries to be fast and stable, intended for live websites with an audience.
Server details
HelioHost owns physical servers within the Hurricane Electric datacenter in California which are used for their virtual servers. You can read more about them on the HelioHost Wiki.
| Physical server | Virtual server | Additional notes |
|---|---|---|
| Stevie (2008–) | Ricky (2016–2019) | Stevie became Ricky in 2016, then moved to Charlie. The plan for the physical server is yet to be known. |
| Charlie (2010–) | Cody (2010–2016) | Cody was moved to Eddie. |
| Johnny (2010–2019) | Johnny was moved to Sparkie. | |
| Ricky (2019–) | ||
| Eddie (2016–) | Cody (2016–) | This server hosts the service's homepage, support forum, wiki, and “ns2.heliohost.org”. |
| Tommy (2016–) | ||
| Sparkie (2019–) | Brodie (2019–) | This server hosts “ns1.heliohost.org”. |
| Johnny (2019–) | ||
| Lily (2019–) | ||
| Katie | Lily (20??–2019) | Katie was a borrowed personal server. Lily was moved to Sparkie. |
| nas0 | ||
Notes
- If you don't know how to upload files, their wiki has a page on it. If you're using FTP, you can use your subdomain as the host name, port 21, and login with your cPanel account details.
External links
1)
"The Official Spam Guide" (February 5, 2005). HelioNet.
2)
"HelioHost: How the Nonprofit Provides Free Hosting to a Tight-Knit Community Through a Commitment to Transparency and Cooperation" (October 9, 2018). Hosting Advice.
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