2012 Most Anonymous/Private Usenet Provider Award: Astraweb
Astraweb takes this category by storm, hands down. They are one of our top providers, very popular. One of the largest concerns at Astraweb is that of the anonymity and privacy, and in spite of the fact that they have server farms in both the U.S. and Europe, they do not appear to be under the jurisdictional control of either. A huge plus for the more paranoid members, and at the same time providing even more security and anonymity.
Anonymity At Astraweb
At Astraweb they insure your privacy and anonymity by never keeping any kind of logs except server related error logs…and even these don’t have any kind of information that would identify you. All posts are anonymous as you would like, and even starting new newsgroups is completely anonymous. Every account they have comes with SSL, and for the seriously private minded, they also support VPN’s and allow you to pick the port you want to communicate on.
More About Astraweb
Astraweb is a long standing Usenet provider that has enjoyed a lot of popularity in the last few years. This could possibly be due to the increasingly frequent government incursions into our privacy. Here are a few more important statistics about Astraweb:
- European and U.S. servers.
- SSL with every plan, including their block plans.
- 1,248 days of binary retention, text retention is in the years also.
- Unlimited and block accounts. If you only need to do a little downloading, or a lot.
- Excellent speeds due to the Savvis and Limelight network backbones.
- 24/7/365 support service. E-mail, knowledge-base, or troubleshooter, there is a solution for your issue.
Asraweb In The News
Possibly due to their anonymity desire, Astraweb keeps themselves fairly low key, and tries to stay out of the news. This could be a great thing for their members, if you remember this summer when the British courts got an index provider in their sights. But in spite of this, they did have a few stories that we thought were worth mention here:
Astraweb Takes The Lead With 4 Billion Usenet Message Headers- Easynews And Astraweb Reach 1000 Days Binary Retention
- Astraweb Announces Higher Download Speeds
Congratulations Astraweb
They were lucky, this service is so low key we almost forgot about them when we were tallying up the scores…but we don’t miss very much. And we would like to congratulate them and thank them for providing some of the best, private, Usenet access possible. Good work!
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