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Free Usenet Access - 1 Week - 200 Days Retention
Posted: June 30th, 2009, 4:33 pm
by JPA
We just turned on a new bank of servers and are hoping to push 10-20
gigabits of test traffic this week. These servers have 200 days of
articles, both binaries and text.
Please give us a hand by testing things out -
The server is:
stresstest.cheapernews.com
No username/password is required.
SSL is enabled and you should be able to make at least 20 connections
per host.
Sorry, we don't support posting.
We may have a few few-minute outages during the course of the week as
we try different server and/or load balancer configurations, but our plan
is to keep the service up until and through July 4th.
Thanks for helping us out!
- Joe Riles -- Cheapernews Admin Team -
--- Unlimited Usenet from $4/month! ---
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.free ... c99c24cdef#
Re: Free Usenet Access - 1 Week - 200 Days Retention
Posted: June 30th, 2009, 7:58 pm
by rollingeyeball
Sounds like an excellent find for those of who don't already have a premium service. 200days is unheard of for free newsservers isnt it?
Re: Free Usenet Access - 1 Week - 200 Days Retention
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 3:47 am
by Camelot
$4/month for "200 days retention, unlimted download, 20 connections" sounds too good to be true. Anyone tried them before?
I am currently on astraweb's $11/month deal, and paying 1/3 of that for the same service wouldn't bother me
Re: Free Usenet Access - 1 Week - 200 Days Retention
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 4:21 am
by huleboeren
Camelot wrote:
$4/month for "200 days retention, unlimted download, 20 connections" sounds too good to be true. Anyone tried them before?
I am currently on astraweb's $11/month deal, and paying 1/3 of that for the same service wouldn't bother me
Uhh Astraweb is headed for 365days so :p
http://www.news.astraweb.com/tools/stats.html
Currently at 315 days
Re: Free Usenet Access - 1 Week - 200 Days Retention
Posted: July 1st, 2009, 5:51 am
by JPA
Camelot wrote:
$4/month for "200 days retention, unlimted download, 20 connections" sounds too good to be true. Anyone tried them before?
I am currently on astraweb's $11/month deal, and paying 1/3 of that for the same service wouldn't bother me
Look closely, their plans have speed limits. Hence why the price is so low.
Re: Free Usenet Access - 1 Week - 200 Days Retention
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 3:54 pm
by Camelot
fair enough, but even the uncapped $6/month plan is ~ halfprice of astraweb. I don't know about you guys, but it's not often I need to download stuff that is older then 200 days...
Re: Free Usenet Access - 1 Week - 200 Days Retention
Posted: July 6th, 2009, 1:35 pm
by unoriginal
They also have a speed cap of 1meg/sec for all their plans. Since I have a 6meg dsl connection I wouldn't see any kind of speeds that I consider decent. I will stick with Astraweb and their $11/mo deal for the ability to max out my connection instead.
Re: Free Usenet Access - 1 Week - 200 Days Retention
Posted: July 7th, 2009, 4:18 am
by Camelot
thanks for the info
Re: Free Usenet Access - 1 Week - 200 Days Retention
Posted: July 7th, 2009, 5:08 am
by DeXeS
unoriginal wrote:
They also have a speed cap of 1meg/sec for all their plans. Since I have a 6meg dsl connection I wouldn't see any kind of speeds that I consider decent.
1megs/sec per connection and you get 4 connections so speedlimit from "Medium-Use UNLIMITED Plan" is 4megs per sec. the unlimited user I can't find the speedlimit