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HelioHost

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HelioHost is a non-profit organization powered by a community of hobbyists that offers full-featured web hosting services for free.

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License model

  • Freemium • Proprietary

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Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Online
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4 / 5 Avg rating (10)
39likes
8comments
57alternatives
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  1.  PhpMyAdmin
  2.  Community-based
  3.  SQLite
  4. Git icon  Git Support
  5.  PHP Pear support
  6.  Dark Mode
  7.  Ad-free
  8.  Django
  9.  JSP support
  10.  PHP IDE
  11.  Cloud Hosting
  12.  Java IDE

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HelioHost information

  • Developed by

    US flagHelioHost

  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Freemium product.

  • Pricing

    Subscription ranging between $1 and $4 per month + free version with limited functionality.

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4

  • Alternatives

    57 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 8 comments and reviews about HelioHost, and it has gotten 39 likes

HelioHost was added to AlternativeTo by JASC on Nov 16, 2011 and this page was last updated Jan 16, 2025.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
Ziad Attia
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Mar 29, 2018
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It is more flexible, no forced ads, good quick support and unlimited bandwith! It is great! It is also FREE! Thats right : Free! No credit card required! It also works on many countries! It has Cpanel, PHP, unlimited MySQL databases, and Softaculos, an automated web app installer! It is a great alternative! It doesnt even try to upsell you to paid plans. That's because there are NO paid plans! You also get to (kind of) choose your features on registration. (Dont worry, you can ask an admin to move servers for you!) Right now they are the best Linux / Apache hosting service (remember it is FREE) and soon to come Windows Server 2016! It has stayed in business for 12 years and is an official 501(c)(3) non-profit.

Top Negative Comment
Beavisguy2
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Sep 13, 2019
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This host is slower than a brick wall no joke many times a day it will take 3 to 5 min to load my site. It is so slow I am not able to setup my Wordpress site fully. One more thing I have noticed is they are using a really old version of PHP and you can not change which version of php in your cpanel. Stay far away from this free host it could be the sever is hosting to many sites

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TBayAreaPat
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Sep 6, 2024
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Tried to sign up. Free plan is full for the day. There are paid plans.

Hasan Yildiz
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Dec 25, 2022
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hosting for everyone

Ziontech
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Aug 10, 2018
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The best free hosting I have been using so for

infopensource
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Aug 9, 2018
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Awesome features and an amazing service and support. Community based empowering everyone!

techboy
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Jun 14, 2017
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Long time user here...it really doesn't get much better than this. Good uptime, great features, and customer support that's friendly and cares (their support is forum-based, many of their admins are just other users who've been there forever and know the service well). They currently don't offer "freemium" / paid upgrades like others in this market...the only money they accept is donations.

They support nearly every popular web programming language out there, including less common ones like Ruby on Rails and ones that are often not found for free, like Java. They also use cPanel, so if you've used a host with that before, you'll know how to use their services going in. They also have a script installer (softaculous), so anybody can install software for things like blogs and forums and not worry about the technical details as much if they don't want to.

Just be aware that they limit signups per day on their two production-grade servers (the Ricky and Tommy plans). It's best to sign up right at midnight UTC if you want a production-grade account. Avoid the Johnny plan if you need production-grade hosting (Johnny is meant for experiments and testing, and is very slow at times).

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What is HelioHost?

HelioHost is a non-profit organization powered by a community of hobbyists that offers full-featured web hosting services for free.

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.
  • 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.
  • We are one of the very few free webhosts in the world to offer .NET scripting with our free hosting package.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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.
  • 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.
  • SQLite, the most widely deployed database engine, is a software library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine.
  • Our web-based control panel makes site management a piece of cake. Administer every facet of your website using simple, point-and-click software.
  • HelioHost offers unlimited bandwidth. You won't need to worry about how much your visitors download from your site, because there is no limit.
  • You can create your own yourname@yourdomain.com email address with HelioHost. Connect to your emails with webmail or using your favorite email client.
  • 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.
  • 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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