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
Node 23 SupportWe have added support for Node 23.1.0 to Johnny, Tommy, and Morty. Keep in mind that Node.js uses massive amounts of memory so if you decide to test it out make sure you keep an eye on your load graph at https://heliohost.org/dashboard/load/ All users on Johnny and Tommy are limited to 100 GB memory per day, and if you go over the limit your account will be suspended. On Morty if you go over 100 GB you will have to pay more for your excess l... Read moreHigh Memory Usage
Over the last few weeks we've seen a lot of cases of previously low load accounts suddenly getting suspended for high memory usage. Of course, quite a few people have accused us of having inaccurate load monitoring, and we have wasted a great deal of time testing the load monitoring over and over and over and over again. As far as we could see the load monitoring was working perfectly. Since we're going to be launching Morty soon it is very impor... Read moreTommy SFTP
During the recent upgrade of the Tommy server we identified a bug partway through the move that caused SFTP to not work correctly after the account was on the new server. We fixed the bug in the move process, but several hundred accounts were moved prior to the fix. If your account was moved early in the migration, SFTP probably hasn't been working for you for the last week or so. We're happy to announce that all of the accounts on Tommy should n... 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.
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We 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.
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We are one of the very few free webhosts in the world to offer .NET scripting with our free hosting package.
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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 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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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
What most of the people are forgetting here is that it is a FREE HOST. FREE hosts are not meant to be stable. They are meant for development. Yes, they have issues often. But they are running over 20,000+ sites to date with so many people using poorly written code that slows the server. Free host != VPS. All load is shared. If you don't need to test your website, get a VPS and don't worry about load and install all you want. As for the description, they have never forced ads on your website, and yes, at one point they did require forum posts. They don't anymore, however. It is 100% free. As for the people complaining about their site not working, it takes a while to create. In my opinion, heliohost is the best host. Why? You can use TLD's for free, unlimited bandwidth, 1000MB disk space (can be increased if you win one of the occasional contests), Dedicated IP for the price that it costs them ($20). That along with much more. Support: Very reliable. If you can have respect, expect their staff to help. Speed: Depends on load. Most of my pages on Stevie take less than a second to load on a normal day.
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This is an exceptional webhost. There is rarely any downtime, and it has great support on the forums. However they lack a few features ... and the forums are generally pretty inactive, but do not let this keep you from signing up!
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