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September 30, 2004

Hriders offers 100 GB email … for free

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Apparently the battle for who has the biggest storage in the free email business is far from over. Hellacious Riders, according to an article in Tom’s Hardware is offering their users 100 GB of email storage for free:

Google claims in its promotion of Gmail that users never will have to delete emails again, due to the pure dimension of its service. Hriders.com, based in Irvine, California, believes that one Gigabyte simply is not enough and offers what Google presented as a bug to some users in the week after Gmail’s launch: A whopping 100 GByte.

Because I was skeptical (put me in the group that had never heard of hriders before) I went to the site to check this out.

The first thing I noticed was that the site only advertises a free 10 GB sized email box (see screenshot above) not 100 GB. That’s still an impressive ten times larger than Gmail, but that’s not what the article promised. Also, I’m very doubtful that the web interface and search will be as good as Gmail, but I am checking it out. So next I registered. The registration backend is ASP-based and failed the first time I tried to register. The second time it took and then I began the wait for the password via email. Has been about 15 minutes since I’ve signed up and no password yet, so I will come back and update this entry later after I have logged in successfully and can confirm … or deny the existence of the 100 GB space.

update 10/2/04: A Team Leader from hriders.com commented on this entry indicating that their system “has changed” (though oddly I’m not noticing any visible difference in their registration forms or the ASP script names, so the code changes must be backend) but I do notice the text on their homepage has changed because it now says 100GB instead of 10GB. Hriders Team Leader, thank you for responding regarding my new registration. Is private emailing you necessary for new registrations? The username created is, in fact, my name here so please feel free to check your records with my name and see if you can find out what black hole my hriders.com registration from Thursday 9/30/04 went into and see if you are able to free it up (would love to have my name, if it’s available). Again, the first time it was submitted the system errored out, so I resubmitted and it indicated that it was sending me my password. It’s now been a couple days since this entry and I never received this password. I used the hriders password reminder service at least 4 times and none of those requests ever came either. Is the email address I used during registration good? Yep, tested that. The whole idea here was to be able to register through hriders system and see if it works as advertised for a new user and thus compare it to Gmail. So far just the registration experience has been, well, sort of hellacious, but I do like the fact that a website representative is scanning blogs (and/or search engines, since this blog has good SE presence) and looking for information about the site and responding. I’ll try registering one more time with a brand new username and I will either update this entry and/or write a new entry referencing this one with my experience. Thank you for commenting, Hriders Team Leader (do you have a name, by chance?).

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  1. The account is offered at a 100GB/500MB attachment email account, why not resend your username to webmaster@hriders.com and we can clear this up for you. We have changed the system since you came to it, and we think you will find it very fast and what we offer.

    Team Leader
    Hriders.com

    Comment by Hriders — October 2, 2004 @ 4:30 am PST

  2. I am the team leader, my name is Bud Bogin. Your usernames and passwords should be in your inbox by now.

    Thank you for your time.

    Bud

    Comment by Hriders — October 2, 2004 @ 1:50 pm PST

  3. Thank you, Bud. I have received the information and now successfully logged in :)

    Comment by TDavid — October 2, 2004 @ 7:01 pm PST

  4. HOW should i open a account?

    After registration it said that it mail my password after a minute …. NOw it has been a week and i still haven’t got my password …. if any one has the answer please mail me at tear_sky_2004@yahoo.com

    Comment by Parban — October 10, 2004 @ 2:06 pm PST

  5. [Parban:4]Email them as mentioned above, Parban. That’s the only way I got a new account.

    Comment by TDavid — October 10, 2004 @ 2:18 pm PST

  6. I made an account but i donot get my password now too.

    Comment by Masum — October 12, 2004 @ 2:45 am PST

  7. So did I.[-(

    Comment by qq — October 21, 2004 @ 9:50 pm PST

  8. I have the same problem. I think hriders is out of disk space, and by not sending the confirmation email they block the new users registration intentionally.

    Comment by ab cd — October 25, 2004 @ 4:06 pm PST

  9. They should say that if they want no more users temporarily. Not to waste peoples time by triing ten times a thing that does not work.

    Comment by ab cd — October 25, 2004 @ 4:09 pm PST

  10. Hi, I registered today under the name bslkm. I haven’t received my email with my password yet. Could you please help…

    Thanks

    Bernie

    Comment by Bernie — November 6, 2004 @ 12:07 am PST

  11. Hi. I registered for an email address on Hriders today. I hope I will receive the email password within 72 hours as the admin promised. Looking forward to hearing from you soon. And could you please elaborate a little on that 1000GB thing. I mean is it any realistic or what?
    Cordially, Anar.

    Comment by anar — November 18, 2004 @ 11:58 am PST

  12. its a very nice email. and also we can store so much that we can’t delete.
    ohhhhh ! its wonderful

    Comment by kiran — November 22, 2004 @ 1:03 am PST

  13. Hello!

    Comment by LuWeiming — November 25, 2004 @ 11:56 pm PST

  14. i have registered under the name nirzarlakhia and also have received my ID and password but I am not able to access my email account though it says that my email has already been created/registered. but when I try to login it say SORRY THE USER NAME FAILED. can you help me in these matter so that I can access my account

    Comment by nirzar — November 26, 2004 @ 5:23 am PST

  15. Thanks……………

    Now i am able to enter my account.

    Comment by Masum — November 27, 2004 @ 3:18 am PST

  16. I recived mail with user name and password i logged in i clicked on
    create email account it said that my account has been created but when
    i click on check mail it says invalid login try again
    WHAT should i do
    my user name is:
    mihir_tandon

    Comment by mihir — November 29, 2004 @ 12:32 am PST

  17. Tried to register with hriders.com the results is :

    Error Occurred While Processing Request
    Element STATE_TEXT is undefined in FORM.

    Please try the following:

    * Enable Robust Exception Information to provide greater detail about the source of errors. In the Administrator, click Debugging & Logging > Debugging Settings, and select the Robust Exception Information option.
    * Check the ColdFusion documentation to verify that you are using the correct syntax.
    * Search the Knowledge Base to find a solution to your problem.

    Browser Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
    Remote Address 202.158.116.117
    Referrer http://hriders.com/create_account.cfm
    Date/Time 29-Nov-04 09:58 PM

    What happends here ? Tried with several browsers IE,Netscape,Fire Fox same results.
    Please HELP

    Comment by Sonny — November 30, 2004 @ 1:04 am PST

  18. I signed up Hriders when it was “only” 3 GB. Sometimes it becomes very slow, or server goes down. But in average it works.

    Comment by Jorge — November 30, 2004 @ 7:36 am PST

  19. i joined hriders as DLT024, and can log in to the page but when i click “check my email” it says “Sorry, invalid login. Try again…” i use the right password and all, but it still doesnt work, and i didn’t get something that said it would email my password, can anyone help me please…

    Comment by Dlt024 — December 2, 2004 @ 10:51 am PST

  20. forget all i said :P now it just says “Connection Error!
    The maximum amount of concurrent users are currently logged into the server. Please try logging in later. “

    Comment by Dlt024 — December 2, 2004 @ 10:55 am PST

  21. ITS BEEN OVER A WEEK I STILL GET SAME ERROR

    I recived mail with user name and password i logged in i clicked on
    create email account it said that my account has been created but when
    i click on check mail it says invalid login try again
    WHAT should i do
    my user name is:
    mihir_tandon

    Comment by mihir — December 3, 2004 @ 2:23 am PST

  22. IDEM: I joined hriders as PABLOC, and I can log in to the page but when i click “CHECK MY EMAIL” it says “SORRY, INVALID LOGIN. TRY AGAIN…” i use the right password and all, but it still DOESN WORK, and i didn’t get something that said it would email my password, can anyone HELP ME TEAM LEADER !!!…HELP ME!!

    Comment by Pablo — December 5, 2004 @ 9:55 pm PST

  23. [Parban:4]No logro saber mi palabra de acceso (Password) ni la direccion URL en donde leer mi correo dirigidoa Urrea@hriders.com
    Por favor solicito mi palabra de acceso y la URL en donde se gestionan el correo
    Mailto:E.URREA@telefonica.es
    Sincedramente
    Urrea.

    Comment by Urrea — December 11, 2004 @ 4:02 pm PST

  24. So has ANYONE actually manage dto USE this account yet???

    By the looks of things they are just harvesting email addresses.

    I reckon you lot are in for a barrage of Spam!!

    Comment by Chris — December 19, 2004 @ 9:40 am PST

  25. zaid

    Comment by zaid — January 13, 2005 @ 8:32 am PST

  26. Ya i got this account to work the first time i opened it. I jsut made an account, then logged in with the password i made, i didnt have to get password or aynthing. Now the account doesnt work anymore il post later to tell you if it worked.

    Comment by Richard — January 16, 2005 @ 9:47 pm PST

  27. Hi,

    Try check http://www.hriders.com out. Now it says on it banner “free 1GB email account”.

    Only time will tell.

    Comment by Jamal — January 31, 2005 @ 11:40 am PST

  28. [mihir:16]
    umm well i got the same message (i use mozilla) and i’m feelin’ too lazy to investigate furder. I read all the comments in here and, well i think they’re seriously having problems with their server…anyway, what can i do about it? is there anything i can do to get an account? or the thingy is plainly busted?

    Comment by daichi — February 23, 2005 @ 2:20 pm PST

  29. thankyou

    Comment by abhishek3 — March 5, 2005 @ 1:11 am PST

  30. I signe dup for an hriders account at the end of December. I had problems getting any email to actually get to the account then after a week or two it started working. I sent some stuff there just to clear it out of my main email account but abotu a week ago I started having problems that the server was not found and then that there was an error and to retry later. When I finally did get in I found that all of the stuff tha tI had in the account was gone. It is not a place to trust with any information. I’m glad my stuff was just trivial mainly pics from my phone.

    Comment by xyz1024 — March 22, 2005 @ 1:34 pm PST

  31. Ya i got this account to work the first time i opened it. I jsut made an account, then logged in with the password i made, i didnt have to get password or aynthing. Now the account doesnt work anymore il post later to tell you if it worked.

    Comment by ANWAR — April 7, 2005 @ 6:55 am PST

  32. Yes ny friend abhishek3, It happened to me.

    All my emails where deleted from my account, I can’t explain this kind of things… I hope it never happens again, but seems is going on… Maybe hriders cannot give us all that they say, sorry for my comment, but I can’t trust if my email provider erases my emails…

    Somebody can tell them, because I said hriders the same written words but nothing answer me…

    Thnks m8s 4 ur time.

    Comment by Marco Hidalgo — April 7, 2005 @ 11:23 am PST

  33. hi, i have registered for hriders, but i still dont know how to use it, and i dont know when other send me email, how can i received my email at hriders, i dont know about any folder at hriders. and seem like have any folder there, how to create folder there, n how to read my email
    thankyou

    Comment by welly go — April 13, 2005 @ 4:00 am PST

  34. I just registered for my 1 terabyte email account and am fairly impressed with the interface so far.

    My main question is whether they will be offering IMAP connectivity. Can you imagine having to download even half a terabyte of email to your PocketPC over POP3? IMAP is definitely the way to go so you can just download headers or only certain folders…whatever.

    Any HRiders.com reps reading this? I’d love to hear from ya.

    - Gaines

    Comment by Gaines Kergosien — April 22, 2005 @ 10:17 am PST

  35. i created my account at hriders about 4 months ago. it was 1TB at that time. I could send and receive e-mails easily. And some big attachements though rather slowly. After a time the site went under construction for a time. When it came back it was never easy as before to open the site and manage it. Also wasn’t possible to send attachments anymore. And now i can’t receive anything but send mail without attachments. Hriders should really do something about it.

    Comment by Raider — April 30, 2005 @ 2:45 pm PST

  36. Yes, Raider, I got an account as well. on Easter hoilday, 2005. I really love the sheer size of it. But it doesn’t receive any messages and can’t attach any attachment with it either.

    Comment by Tony — May 6, 2005 @ 8:15 am PST

  37. I have got an account on this site but I don’t Know how to delete it becaus I don’t need It anymore, can someone help me ???

    Comment by bino — June 9, 2005 @ 12:36 pm PST

  38. bino - contacting hriders.com directly might be the best course of action … :)

    Comment by TDavid — June 9, 2005 @ 1:07 pm PST

  39. About a month ago Hriders increased its storage upto 1TR again, but nowadays i can’t reach my web site. it always says “invalid login” though the site www.hriders.com recognize me as a member within the site. i click on the “Check email” thing but it returns the alert i’ve mentioned. What could the reason be? i!m losing hope. :(((

    Comment by Raider — June 10, 2005 @ 3:46 am PST

  40. i want it

    Comment by thophi — June 17, 2005 @ 10:36 pm PST

  41. I applied a free email account in hriders.com. But it seemed not work. I sent several eamils from and to it, but neither the sent ones received by other email accounts, nor the ones sent to it received. What’s the problem?

    Comment by david — July 5, 2005 @ 7:19 am PST

  42. I still have the same problem I mentioned previously. And with it I cannot receive any help from the “Contact us” section. It seems this hriders.com is something like a ghost company. Is there anyone alive on there??? Can anyone hear me???

    Comment by Raider — July 6, 2005 @ 8:25 am PST

  43. i need a hriders mail.thanks

    Comment by phi — August 5, 2005 @ 11:41 pm PST

  44. i want a mail

    Comment by nacu — August 8, 2005 @ 3:51 pm PST

  45. pls mr i have registered for hriders, but i still dont know how to use it and i need my password for mail pls pls pls
    thanks for ur time

    Comment by mohamed — August 28, 2005 @ 7:00 pm PST

  46. Hey..I registered with hriders with UserID sri333

    When I log on it says “Sorry, invalid login. Try again… ”

    I am sure of password as it logs in when I visit www.hriders.com — help plzzzz

    Comment by Srikanth — September 21, 2005 @ 1:02 pm PST

  47. I want hrider email… What should I do?

    Comment by rassha — September 27, 2005 @ 2:20 am PST

  48. How can I get a Hriders email account?????
    Can somebody please give me some information?
    Or maybe a email address from someone who knows it?
    I try it by clicking in the right corner above by: Join Now!! (free membership)
    and write down all the information en created a account but I don’t think this is the right one because I can’t find my inbox or something that has to do with email.

    Please give me a response.

    Thanks.

    Comment by Erwin — October 8, 2005 @ 8:42 am PST

  49. Hrider email is a farce! Can’t access it and it s always down…try google for a dependable solution

    Comment by Lester — October 17, 2005 @ 12:15 am PST

  50. Hi! I just join your site some other day. My problem is I can’t find the link for the email and I still don’t have a password for it. Please help. =)

    Comment by Jun — October 22, 2005 @ 4:14 am PST

  51. I like this very much

    Comment by Rose Mary — November 21, 2005 @ 1:19 pm PST

  52. thank you for email

    Comment by mostafa_83 — November 22, 2005 @ 11:35 am PST

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