BlockNews Review
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Blocknews- 610 days binary retention |
Pricing Plans
- 1,000 GB block - $90.00
- 200 GB block - $25.00
- 100 GB block - $18.00
- 50 GB block - $12.49
- 25 GB block - $8.50
- 10 GB block - $4.50
Retention
- 610 Days of Binary Retention
- 800 Days of Text Retention
Plan Types
- Monthly Plans: No
- Block Plans: Yes
- Metered Plans: No
Misc
- Completion: 99%
- Newsgroups: 85000
- Connections: Up to 50 connections
- SSL: Yes
- Payment Options: : Payments processed through 2CheckOut.com - PayPal, Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Discover
- Support Info: online support form
News Server Addresses
- news.blocknews.net - (US, port 119 or 443)
- news.blocknews.net - (US, port 119 or 443)
- ssl.blocknews.net - (US, port 563, 80 or 81)
- eussl.blocknews.net - (Europe, port 563, 80 or 81)
Review Of Blocknews
They started their business as small groups of friends and family who bought bulk amounts of usenet bandwidth in order to communicate and to use it between themselves. Recently, more specifically over the past few months, they have upgraded their services in order to provide better pricing, retention and completion. After these upgrades, they consider themselves and quality provider, offering competitive prices, providing the access to the uncensored feed and to almost all the active newsgroups. Finally, they are eager to improve their service constantly and accordingly, they have great customer support.
Pricing and packages
They offer several attractive packages that should suit almost all the types of users; from the one just discussing occasionally and reading, up to the users who download unlimited amounts of music, videos, images and other. The packages available are: 5 GBs – $2.75, 10 GBs – $4.50, 25 GBs – $8.50, 50 GBs – $12.49, 100 GBs – $18.00, 200 GBs – $25.00, 500 GBs – $57.00 and 1000 GBs – $90.00.
Retention
For the binary groups, retention is more than 610 days and for the text groups over 2 years. Note that the retention times are increasing day by day as the infrastructure is upgraded.
Servers and connections
The servers are located in USA and Europe, one of them being on the East Coast and the other being in Europe. That enables the user to gain maximum download speed, regardless of location. The users have ability to use maximum of 50 connections.
Security and other misc features
The users are provided with SSL encryption so there is no worry that someone could illegally monitor the activities of certain user. In order to suit the usage of certain user, many block sizes are available.
Support
Let’s mention that they have great online support & FAQ’s news. There is a vast of useful information available, but if (for some reason) you don’t find the answer to your problem here, you can always request support ticket. It is also good to know if the user does not receive an acknowledgement to his or her request within 30 minutes, he or she should check the spam filter.
Recommendation
They are certainly worth considering; not only because of the decent price performance and because they specialize in block accounts, but also because of the great support and very good retention times.
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