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We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization powered by a community of hobbyists that offer full-featured web hosting services for free.Our mission is to provide high quality web hosting for free to as many people as possible. We believe that everyone should have access to their own website whether they're a student to a small business owner, and everything in between. We're operated by a team of highly experienced volunteers who are passionate about what we do.Many schools around the world don't have the resources to provide their students with an online environment where they can learn to create a website. HelioHost aims to solve this issue by providing free hosting accounts for the teachers and students.Many small businesses can't afford to pay for hosting in order to sell their products online. HelioHost aims to solve this by providing free hosting and low cost hosting to small businesses to allow them to have an online presence.We offer as many free hosting accounts as we can, and we also offer donation based hosting accounts to help offset the cost of providing hosting for free. In addition, we provide affordable VPS hosting plans and scaling pricing based on usage for people who wish to upgrade from the free plans.We encourage community members to help each other, and recruit new volunteers from the community who are the most helpful. We own all of our own hardware so we don't have to resell hosting services from other companies which helps us keep costs low.
HelioHost (heliohost.org) has 118 customer reviews on Rated Honest, with an average rating of 4.6 out of 5.
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Mgmason
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Excellent host with great speed and customer service!
Response from HelioHost· Oct 19, 2025
Thanks for the 5 star review, Mgmason! I'm glad you're enjoying your Morty account, and noticed how fast it is. Let us know if you need help with anything.
ajaxStardust
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Very very good and friendly. it's a good community of users and admins. 5-stars it is. i tend trying to buffer my use of min/ max, as-- i'm pretty sure its at least urban legend-- that some collection services actually truncate a 0 , or a 5 as such responses might be viewed more whimsical; capricious, like that cat that's only made of a grin. it's all good, bruthsa n sistas. let us reflect now upon great wisdom of our generation, "I never had nuthin. I don't know how to act" ~ Mike Tyson (blood of human ear fresh on his breath, no). E.g. You do realize I'm [completely nuts?] ... what's that word? ... ugh! something about being. not genuine. something like that. not official. i guess maybe genuine. i'll think of the better one later. See? and you're worried about S-T-A-R-S. billy's got zits from pickin the stars from his face, man. Television man is crazy. Said You [you're] juvenile delinquent wrecks! oh! i'll show you some S-T-A-R-S mu' fluff! LOL! is that concrete all around, or is it in ma hed? sun don't shine, Boyee! ozzy o, n all that. what a year. why'd i stop drinkikn'? O M G (Only MJ Gummy) naww. couldn't be
Response from HelioHost· Oct 17, 2025
Thanks for the 5 star review, ajaxStardust! You're awesome. Never change.
Ctut
Posted
Good VPS for small price, excellent for experiments
Response from HelioHost· Oct 11, 2025
Thanks for the 5 star review, Ctut! Glad you're enjoying your VPS. The $4 Mercury VPS is definitely our best selling VPS plan. Then after doing some experimenting, if you decide you need a little more power or storage, it's super easy to upgrade too. Let us know if you need help with anything.
Anders
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Wonderful, helpful, and patient people!
Response from HelioHost· Oct 9, 2025
Thanks for the 5 star review, Anders! I like what you said about preferring to give your money to a hosting service that cares about you, rather than a giant company that only cares about making as much money as possible. Let us know if you need help with anything.
Aaron
Posted
Their hosting is reliable for what I need it for, support is great and even helps with setting up projects on HelioHost outside of the basic account support you'd expect from volunteers. Overall they're a great nonprofit for web hosting, and I'd recommend heliohost to anyone looking to learn how to make a website and host it on a website management thing (like Plesk, which is what they use).
Response from HelioHost· Oct 9, 2025
Thanks for the 5 star review, Aaron! We really appreciate you recommending our service to people. Since we're a small non-profit powered by donations we don't have enough money to spend any of it on advertising so we have to rely on word-of-mouth recommendations from people like you to find new users.
Ookma-Kyi
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I originally ordered a Tommy server (donation)account on November 2024 for my open source project Ookma-Kyi after trying many free services. I have had excellent service from the the beginning with very little downtime and great customer service. It may take a few hours to get a response since they staff are all volunteers, but expect detailed responses and professional etiquette when they do respond. I have since migrated my account to the Morty server (scaled) have not looked back since.
Response from HelioHost· Oct 9, 2025
Thanks for the 5 star review, Ookma-Kyi! It's really tough to find free services on the internet that aren't scams. It seems like the first 15 pages of Google's "free hosting" search are all worthless so you really have to dig to find HelioHost. From what we can tell all of these verified 5 star Trustpilot reviews are helping people to find us though so that's a great result.
Jorge Z.
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I have been using HelioHost for over a decade and the staff (which are all unpaid volunteers) have been always helpful. I have seen paid hosting sites come and go, but not HelioHost. They not only keep the service running, but are always improving it. If you are starting, there is no better place to go. Even if you are not starting, it's the place to go. As told, I have been there for years and years, and hopefully, will continue to enjoy the excellent service they provide for years to come. No upselling, no adware, no artificial limitations, no popups. Just top notch service! Recommended.
Response from HelioHost· Oct 7, 2025
Thanks for the 5 star review, Jorge! You've been using HelioHost since April 2011, so you're better qualified than most to review our service. HelioHost has been through a lot, but we never give up. Like you said, we're always trying to improve too.
Santanu
Posted
All good. Thanks for this service.
Response from HelioHost· Oct 7, 2025
Thanks for the 5 star review, Santanu! It's our pleasure to provide this service. If we didn't enjoy volunteering for this non-profit we would find other ways to spend our time. Reviews like yours help keep us motivated to keep HelioHost alive.
