Story
How a community hosting project was born from pure chaos and a desire to help friends.
2023: The Idea
It all started as a joke. Friends, tired of surprise hosting bills, kept asking: “Bro, can you make us some simple hosting?”
After the tenth request, on 03.09.2023, I registered guest.si out of pure friendly frustration.
The goal wasn't to build a business, but a stress-free corner of the internet for friends. A community "guest room" for websites.
2023: It's Alive!
The joke became real. On September 5th, 2023, to prove it wasn't a bluff, two production servers went live across two continents.
- 🇩🇪 dns1.guest.si
Location: Germany | Role: Primary DNS, LAMP, Email
The one that does all the heavy lifting. - 🇺🇸 dns2.guest.si
Location: USA | Role: Secondary DNS + Backup
Exists so nobody panics if the first one sneezes.
Suddenly, we had a real, multi-continent setup with zero surprise invoices.
2024: The Madness
As 2024 rolled in, requests grew beyond my inner circle. To manage the "madness," the servers were given dedicated roles.
- 🇩🇪 dns1.guest.si
Handles: DNS + Email Server
Keeping emails flowing and domains pointing in the right direction. - 🇺🇸 dns2.guest.si
Handles: Full LAMP Stack for web apps
Where all the fun stuff (and broken code) lived.
It was no longer just for friends. A proper little community was forming.
2025: Getting Serious
By 2025, the project had grown quietly. To handle demand, the infrastructure expanded "overnight" without users noticing a thing.
- 🇩🇪 dns1.guest.si
Role: Primary DNS
The silent guardian of all domain names. - 🇺🇸 dns2.guest.si
Role: Secondary DNS
Making sure things don't break if the first one takes a nap. - 🇫🇷 dns3.guest.si
Role: DNS + Email (France)
Because you can never have too many DNS servers. Also, croissants. - 🇫🇷 www.guest.si
Role: Login & Registration Portal
The new front door for the growing community.
The friendly joke had leveled up into a serious, multi-server community platform.
Late 2025: The Evolution
With over 50 domains under management, a fresh, scalable system was needed. On 10.11.2025, heyslovenia.com was born. A brand-new, geographically distributed infrastructure was built from the ground up.
New Server Setup
- 🇫🇷 dns1.heyslovenia.com
Primary DNS server in France.
The new, grown-up DNS backbone, ready for anything. - 🇺🇸 dns2.heyslovenia.com
Secondary DNS server in the USA. - 🇫🇷 server01.heyslovenia.com
A fully managed server in France... - 🇫🇷 server02.heyslovenia.com
...Currently under construction. - 🇮🇹 server03.heyslovenia.com
...Currently under construction.
Backup Strategy
- Primary Backup – Italy
Off-site storage for safety. - Secondary Backup – Home Basement
The last line of defense.
A Heartfelt Thank You to Our Community
guest.si and heyslovenia.com are nonprofit initiatives born from a simple idea: to empower people through open-source technology. What began as a small vision has grown into a thriving community-driven platform, made possible by the friends, supporters, and early believers who believed in our mission and helped bring it to life.
Our Mission
- Provide free or affordable hosting solutions for communities, organizations, and individuals who are passionate about building something meaningful.
- Support students, developers, and small projects, giving them the tools and resources to learn, create, and grow without barriers.
- Foster a safe and inspiring environment where experimentation, learning, and collaboration can flourish.
The Bigger Picture
Every line of code, every server, every resource we provide exists because of the incredible community that surrounds us. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for your trust, your support, and your belief in what we do.
Here’s to the future: to building, sharing, learning, and growing together. We are just getting started, and the best is yet to come.