Giganews reaches 800 days of binary retention
On October 15th, Giganews announced that they had hit 800 days of binary Usenet retention, turning themselves into USENET service provider with one of the best retention rates available. They are also proud of the fact that the completion rate is more than 99% – in other words, almost all the articles posted on their servers will remain there for 800 days.
Although they have just hit 800 days of retention, their infrastructure is ready to keep going and before too long we will probably here an announcement about 900 days of binary retention.
The complete blog entry from their website follows:
“Giganews first to 800 days retention — and not stopping!
A little over a year and a half ago, we announced that we were going to be the first Usenet provider with a year’s retention. We got to that year, and then just kept going. We hit two years a little while ago, and still kept going. Today, we’ve hit 800 days of binary Usenet retention — and we’re still going.
800 days is just a number, though. None of that retention matters if we don’t also have good quality. For all 800 days, we have over 99% of the articles. On top of that, when we lose servers or disks, you don’t see random articles disappear temporarily. In fact, most customers don’t notice anything at all. Finally, our oldest, 800-day-old articles are stored on the same servers as our newest articles. If you want to fetch posts from 800 days ago, they’ll download just as fast as posts that arrived today.
Our software and systems were designed years ago to handle this level of retention. Today, we hit 800 days of retention, but we’re already ready for the next 800 days and beyond. Please enjoy the retention, and keep an eye out for new features we’ll be rolling out in the coming months.”
Giganews is on list of best USENET providers so you can compare them with other great USENET providers. We also go in great detail in our review of Giganews Usenet page. Â Â Briefly some of the highlights would be
- Great Retention – now at 1380 days
- Private VPN networking included in their platinum plan – Check out VyprVPN
- First month at half price. Â See our Giganews special offer
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