Giganews Breaks 1000 Days Retention and Contest Winners Announced

Today Giganews was the first Usenet provider to cross the 1000 days binary retention finish line. If you check out Giganews Facebook page you can see that they mention the secret is really in the software because the hardware well its just high performance disk drives as you would find in any server room. Well there are LOTS of them to be sure and I dont have an exact figure but the bottomline is that like Google, Giganews secret sauce lies in the software and not the hardware.

1000 Days Binary Retention is pretty impressive and all this is happening while the volume of uploads to Usenet increase monthly.

To celebrate and promote their Usenet service, Giganews launched a 1000 day prize give away. All members were automatically entered into the giveaway. Members could earn additional entries by “Liking” us on Facebook, “Following” us on Twitter, using Mimo Usenet Browser + Search or being Salute which was a customer testimonial.

Even if you didnt do anything as long as you have an active Giganews account you were automatically entered into the giveaway, so you may have won even if you did nothing! So definitely Visit Giganews and see if you have won!

Here is a bit of the backstory from the press release :

When we first opened our doors in 1994, Usenet retention was in the single digits. Today we are proud to become the world’s first Usenet provider to store 1000 days of Usenet retention! That’s over nine petabytes of redundant storage at your fingertips and we will continue to grow our retention every day.

It’s one thing to offer long retention. It’s another thing altogether to offer high quality long retention. Some competitors claim to have long retention but when you look a little closer, you see it’s only in some groups, older articles are slower and there are many incomplete files.

We built our infrastructure from the ground up with a focus on scalability. That’s why, when you pull a 1000 day old article, it downloads just as fast as one posted today. You’ll find the same quality and length of retention across all 109,000+ newsgroups, not just a select number of groups. To celebrate this milestone, we created the 1000 Days Prize Giveaway.

End Of Press Release

Save some $$ on Giganews Signup

As a UsenetReviewz.com visitors, we are able to offer you an exclusive deal to save a bit of cash when you signup for the Giganews Diamond or Platinum plan. If you are interested and then here are the discount links

• Giganews Diamond Discount Link -  $5 Diamond Lifetime Discount – $30/month
• Giganews Platinum Discount Link –  $5 Platinum Lifetime Discount – $20/month

We like the Diamond plan especially because it in include the VyprVPN, Mimo Usenet with Usenet search. While I don’t have a current expiration date on this offer most likely this will be a limited time offer as Giganews has raised their prices as of March 1, 2011.

So if you are considering Giganews ( they are the lexus of the Usenet industry) then signup and get a discounted price for the diamond plan or the platinum plan.

Why Giganews ?

As mentioned, Giganews is for the lack of a better analogy the lexus of the Usenet world. You will be paying a bit more but here’s why.

• World Best Retention Rates - in a less than three weeks Giganews will be hitting 1000 days of binary retention. This means both message headers and the usenet message data(binary data).  Also unless a message has been specifically canceled in the case of a DMCA take down request, it will be available.
• High Speed Access –  If you get 25 MB/sec in the USA remember this is nothing compared to Internet access speeds in Europe. Access speeds of 100 MB/sec and 50 MB/sec in the UK and Europe are quite common and here is where having a Giganews account can offer solid value with their data centers in Europe.
• VPN Access - You can read more about this on VyprVPN Review page but having a VPN ( Virtual Private Network) can give you both another level of protection but also a level of anonymity while you are connected to the Internet.
• Mimo Newsreader –  If you are unfamiliar with the Mimo Newsreader its worth checking out. Admittedly, its a new product and still making improvements but Mimo does make the process of Usenet search faster and easier and it works on various platforms.
• Continuing Improvements – Giganews has been innovating especially in the last year with VyprVPN,  Mimo and recently announced personal storage space.  No doubt Giganews will continue to innovate and add on additional products to keep their customers happy.

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