File retention is one of the biggest arguments for or against a Usenet provider next to similarly important factors such as connection speeds, completion rate, security and the price / download ratio the service is offering. Giganews, the one and only Usenet provider that I do recommend, announced just a few days ago that they raise the bar once again by providing their customers with a 365 day binary retention of files that get uploaded to the Usenet. The new retention rate will be updated gradually which means it will take another five months before the final retention rate of 365 days is reached.
Currently about 5 Terabyte of data gets uploaded by users world wide to the Usenet, a figure that is surely about to increase as the popularity of Usenet services rise. Giganews is currently running so called Usenet trials which offer the first three months of Usenet access of some of their Usenet plans for half the usual price. Users can for example get an unmetered unlimited download plan for $12.49 or the premium Diamond plan with additional SSL encryption and 20 consecutive connections for $14.99.
What do you get for that? If you have never heard about Usenet or Newsgroups before you might be wary about joining a Usenet provider. That’s understandable. A good start is to take a look at our Usenet Search article which contains links to several Usenet Search Engines. They can be used just like any other search engine. Just enter a name in the search form and look at the results. Downloads are only possible with a Usenet account and a software client for Usenet. There are several choices, we outlined one in our Usenet Client article.
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Its not professional to link to a product as an affiliate. It just makes your whole post biased. You should say something like, if you would like to support ghacks use this link in the end of the article.
Astraweb has also upgraded their retention to 365 days for lesser amount than giganews (even at lower than Giganew’s promo rate). Furthermore, Astraweb offers free SSL.
https://helpdesk.astraweb.com/index.php?_m=news&_a=viewnews&newsid=20
Newshosting is upgrading their retention to 400 days, trumping the Giganews 365 Days.. Could you please publish this in the site blog…
http://www.newshosting.com/news/400-days-retention.php
The usenet client link in the article isn’t proper. :)
fixed, thanks ;)
365, 400 days, lol :) it’s incredible, with my first usenet provider it was 24 hours ! I hope that usenet providers are not going to far in their fight, without them it’ll be the end of usenet.