James Delahunty
11 Jul 2008 18:26
Giganews has announced plans to increase its current 200 day retention for binary newsgroups to 240 days by the end of the year. Only last year, Giganews broke the retention record by offering 200 days binary retention while maintaining excellent completion and of course, top speed downloads with up to 20-concurrent connections, based on what plan you have with the service.
Some of the most active binary newsgroups receive huge amounts of new data on a daily basis, and so retention (how long posts will remain on the servers) is a vital detail to take into account when shopping for a newsgroup provider. Giganews currently offers over 1,700 days retention for text newsgroups additionally.
Along with providing unlimited, uncensored access to all binary groups, Giganews has a decent price line-up, with an unlimited plan that costs $24.99 per month. An additional $5 will get you SSL encryption and boost your max number of concurrent connections to 20. This package is available as a Diamond account for an introductory price of $19.99 for the first month.
"Giganews prides itself on delivering the premium Usenet services our members expect. We enjoy implementing features that improve our members’ experience and we are excited about offering 240 days of retention across binary newsgroups," commented David Vogelpohl, Vice President of Marketing at Giganews.
The storage infrastructure needed for this retention upgrade has been ordered and Giganews expects to have the upgrade complete during September 2008. After the storage infrastructure is in place, retention will grow from 200 days to 240 days. The service also now accepts PayPal and offers custom usernames to its customers.
See: Giganews.com
See: How to download files from Usenet Newsgroups