[tiwil]

OK.  So I tried to sign up for a hosting account with HelioHost.  And this was my not so good experience.

First you click on sign up expecting to sign up for an account with HelioHost.  So they ask you to input your e-mail address.  After that they ask you to verify your e-mail address.  The verification link was received very fast, but after that the experience became weird by normal free hosting account signup experience.  They ask you to tick a bunch of attributes you want to have for your hosting account.  I ticked almost all of them.  You then have to click on a "compare" link - the next step - and it then lists the availability of the attributes in the three servers called Ricky Johnny and Tommy.   It then said that Tommy was the most suitable but that all three servers were full and that I should try again in 1 hour and 47 minutes. The print screen below is after I had refreshed the page a few minutes after:   



I find it a bit arrogant that the owner of HelioHost should think I'm so hard up for HelioHost hosting that I will now keep their page open on my desktop and refresh it every now and then but OK for the purpose of a review of my experience I did just that.  Periodically refreshed the page.  And guess what came up after that long wait:



Haha!  No way.  In the meanwhile the whole Website and Community Forum are dotted with DONATE buttons and advertisements like literally rubbing it under my nose.  Why would I want to donate anything to a service that I didn't get and the experience I went through above.  Wow!  Not sure what games are being played with the above verification and listing experience - referring to the waiting times given - but I find all of it not such a good experience.  Definitely not worthy of a Donation.

AFAIK, Heliohost only open new account registration once in a day at a fixed time. You can register for Johnny at any time but the performance is very bad because every user can register for it. Tommy server is "good" because it's "limited edition" so not so much users can get it. Sometimes Tommy registration only live for less than a minute. You have to be fast.

You can watch the server uptime from http://heliohost.grd.net.pl/monitor/. It's should be up to date. You can also see that Tommy have no new free account registration for today. Only Ricky and Johnny have. Even in Ricky it's limited too.