HiveMail
 

On the ever popular site, yaXay.com, I see that there is a new 'hack' out for vBB, called HiveMail. Does anyone know were I can find this for my forum (http://www.zelaron.com/forums)

Firstly its vB **not** vBB.

Secondly this was written by Chen (aka FireFly), he hasn't released this hack and I belive he is not intending to, however he may be selling it.

Hey Chen,

how much will it cost? :)

we want hive mail...my budget is 85$ lol..

-Drk

I'd also be interested, even if it did cost some $$$ ;-)

As would I, I have about $100 right now and I could spend about $75 of it. :D

I emailed chen about it. Right now he isn't selling it but it is planned as soon as he gets the hivemail website running. Also the plan is to convert it from a vb hack to a standalone application - you will be able to buy the code for your website or have a hosted solution.

Any updates? :)

i am very interested in it aswell!

Me too!! :)

The website has been launched... Take alook:

http://www.hivemail.com/

Cool i was waiting for the launch :)

- miSt

I can see Xenon's name in the screenshot Chen is using on the homepage. :) Nice piece of software.

Look amazing, and the price is super!

I AM TELLING MY FRIENDS ABOUT THIS, AND GETTING ONE MY SELF FOR SURE!

http://www.hivemail.com/features.html
Look at the features, that just stuff to die for :ogre: :p

-Arunan

I am buying:D

Satan

Buy the package of 2-4 ;)

I would, but Ordering isnt available yet:(

Satan

Aww, but I see Chen has revamped the default style, looks great!

-Arunan

It looks cool:)

Satan

I think I may have to get this too :D

Its a very impressive system and provided my host will support the email pipe or whatever was needed then when I can afford it I shall be purchasing :D

I can afford it...I just need my host to check it out, and Chen to sell it;)

Satan

Can you buy it for me hellsatan :pirate:
;)

I will be buying it, I earn twice as much as an unsupported license each month:)

HellSatan I asked Dan already, he seems to like it alot.

-Arunan

I am definately buying if it still integrates like it does on vB.org. If it doesn't I still may consider it, but probably won't get it right away.

the hivemail site looks alot to me like vbulletin one. :)
also, i recognise the vbulletin template touches onto it... my questions is this:
assuming you offer 2mb/user... that's 200mb/100users 2gig/1000users. going in this proportion, the server will cost you a fortune...

at who hivemail aims exacly in their market strategy?

I'll only offer 500kb p/user if i had it..

If you were serious about offering a proffesional webmail system you could charge for use of the service to compensate for costs..

- miSt

500k? you can do almost nothing with it... and still will load you big time on the database.
a free email account have 2-10mb with web interface. why would i pay for it? just to have a name? is not worth imo, paying to have a @teckwizards.com email for example.

from what i see, hivemail is a great system for ISP providers and hosts only. not regular users with 500mb-1gig databases.
if you have a board with 10,000 members ur screwed royally, with all the bells and nice graphs the script have.

I would restrict it to the Paying members only...

@Arunan - Does Dan think it would work?:)

Satan

Yes he does, it look much better then Squirrel Mail rite? lol

Much;)

:)

Satan

You're talking about the extreme - let's not. The very early version of HiveMail has been running here on vBulletin.org for quite a while (at least 3 months), with about 50 active users. Today, the size of the mail database is 8.8MB. Add to that address book, POP3 accounts, message rules, etc. and we'll just round it up to 9MB. That's roughly 200KB per user... in 3 months. Let's multiply that by 20, we'll have 1000 users and 180MB. Another x5, and we got to 5000 users and 1GB. Now, if you have 5000 active users I wouldn't expect you to run on a $5/month shared server with 15 other sites... you'd need something a bit more powerful than that, and usually that comes with lots and lots of space to spare.

Of course, that's without even comparing the program to other solutions out there. Looking at nobody.net you need to pay $60/month for 500 users only, and if you need more? "Contact Us".

I don't know, it makes sense to me... but then again you'd be surprised if it didn't, right? :)

Very;)

Anybody expecting thousands of users must be on a server to cope with that amount, so it will easily fit!:)

Satan

Is the newsletter going to be used? I really want to test out this sucker "again"

-Arunan

the stats you're presenting chen are satisfactory to understand what type of clientele you're aiming at.
thanks for taking the time to explain.

@Arunan - Newsletter?

Who said anything about a newsletter?:confused:

Satan

Like I've said in the past, running a web-based email service can get server intensive - so don't do it unless you are prepared. :)

Yeh...

I may only allow those who already can use it to do so;)

Satan

$180... :(

Too much $ for me :(

But im sure its well worth it. :\

How is the vBulletin integration with this? What are the system requirements?