Altopia Review
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Altopia- 8 to 52 days binary retention |
Pricing Plans
- unlimited SSL, 20 connections - $18.00/mo.
- unlimited SSL, 15 connections - $15.00/mo.
- unlimited SSL, 10 connections - $12.00/mo.
- unlimited SSL, 5 connections - $9.00/mo.
- unlimited SSL, 2 connections - $6.00/mo.
Retention
- 8 to 52 Days of Binary Retention
- 220 Days of Text Retention
Plan Types
- Monthly Plans: Yes
- Block Plans: No
- Metered Plans: No
Misc
- Completion: unknown
- Newsgroups: 124,000+
- Connections: Up to 2 to 20 connections
- SSL: Yes
- Payment Options: : Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover
- Support Info: email support
- Support Email: support@altopia.com
News Server Addresses
- news.altopia.com
Review Of Altopia
Altopia is a Usenet provider that has been around for a long time (since 1995) and presently offers Usenet services to individual users but primarly to ISP’s. We tested their services back in 1995 and they offered excellent customer service.
And while we like Altopia and admire their openess and support of the EFF we feel that for the individual power user who is intersted in binary retention – you would be best served checking out our top Usenet provider list where you can get triple the retention for 1 to 2 dollars more a month.
Excperts taken from their website – https://www.altopia.com/whatsnew.html
16-Jun-2010:
The Altopia server software has been upgraded to handle 64-bit article numbers. (32-bit article numbers are predicted to become insufficient in the coming months.)
14-May-2009:
This web site and the news servers are now accessible via IPv6. The IPv6 news server name is “news.ipv6.altopia.com”.
Your IP address is “71.209.12.69″. If there is a colon in that address, then you have IPv6 connectivity!
1-Jan-2009:
Server access via port 80 is now available at “news80.altopia.com”. This adds to the “news.altopia.com” ports 119, 120, 443 and 563. Details on our status page.
1-Jul-2008:
A new storage server has been added to the system. This server adds 20 terabytes of usable space. To see the impact, check out our retention charts.
14-Mar-2008:
We have enabled SSL for all accounts. If your newsreader supports NNTP over SSL, configure your reader to point to port 563 and you should be good to go.
We are now offering an unthrottled unlimited download accounts. Feel free to change your account type in the ‘Account Maintenance’ area.
19-Feb-2008:
A new storage server has been added to the system. This server adds 20 terabytes of usable space. To see the impact, check out our retention charts.
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