Can anyone recommend a host who can host hivemail on a shared or virtaul server.. it seems many hosting companies do not allow such hosting now.. so want to find someone reliable...

Thanks

Well with hivemail means you're going to have lots of mail accounts and such. I reccomend you order a smaller dedicated like a basic celeron for this task...

I don't see why Hosts would disallow HiveMail, unless it had resource issues. Its only a program for parsing email downloaded from a catchall to web-based 'virtual' mailboxes within Hivemail.

We run WebuMake for a client...and so far haven't seen any resource issues...even though Webumake is a Perl product and initially I did feel it would push usage.

Is there something peculiar about Hivemail that irks web hosts...we don't have a client yet hosting HiveMail so I'm not sure why its a problem.

Well if you got multiple people sending out multiple e-mails per second, it can get very resource intensive. Like we have someone running hivemail on our server and he's using up about 10% of the CPU with it. Don't forget it's not just e-mail that it's using, it uses MySQL and web serving software too...Where as a normal e-mail account just uses your mail servers...

In that sense...Yes I agree...but it won't be just HiveMail, we had Ubemiaou push loads excessively on a server and its just a Web-based pop3 mailreader. Any webmail interface being used by several hundred users would do that...be it Squirrelmail or Horde.

But one thing I'm sure of...Ubemiaou buckles up much sooner. Its cute...but had to abandon it.

Ubemiaou... hated it... had all kinds of bugs and abandonded it for a custom squirell mail

Hivemail can use heavy cron jobs, and although my version of hivemail and the users I have is not excessive, the times that a cron job fails when mysql packet size is exceeded, then the CPU is affected in speed... I just want to find a new host provider for a limited number of users using hivemail

It doesn't have to be a dedicated server, I think you can run HiveMail on a reseller account?

How about running SocketMail ... is there any restriction on this software ? I heard that hivemail was banned on few hostings due to high resource consumption.

Anyway, I think Hivemail people are working on the script to be written in C++ so that the load will be small.

just sayin wow, hivemail can use upto 94% on a P4 2.4ghz server, and it is the only script running, and only 10 users online