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 20 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.
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20th Anniversary Rebirth of Stevie FundraiserHelioHost is raising funds to purchase a new server! https://donorbox.org/rebirth-of-stevie In 2005, Ashoat, who was 14 years old at the time, came up with the ridiculous idea of giving away web hosting for free. He purchased the domain heliohost.org and a reseller plan, but it wasn't too long before there were so many people wanting to host their website for free on HelioHost that Ashoat had to buy a server to support them all. He named tha... Read moreNew Wiki
After about 5 years of using GitBook for our wiki we've decided it is time to move on. We are now using a self-hosted MediaWiki site. The wiki is located at the same URL as it has always been https://wiki.helionet.org but since we just changed the DNS you may continue to see the old GitBook site for up to 4 hours. Let us know if you're interested in editing the wiki and we can create an account for you. Eventually we will offer a self-service way... Read moreMorty Available
The Morty server has finally been released for new account signups! If you don't already have an account and want to try out our fastest server, head on over to https://heliohost.org/morty/ to signup. If you already have an account on Johnny or Tommy you can move your existing account to Morty at https://heliohost.org/dashboard/move instead. Only the Morty prepay option is available currently, but we will be releasing the Morty subscription ... 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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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, North Korea, or Syria.
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