Easynews Review
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Easynews- 600 days binary retention |
Pricing Plans
- Easynews Classic: 20 GB/mo. - $9.98/mo.
- Easynews Plus: 30 GB/mo. - $14.97/mo.
- Easynews Big Gig: 150 GB/mo. - $29.94/mo.
- Unlimited NNTP - add $10/mo to any account
Retention
- 600 Days of Binary Retention
- 730 Days of Text Retention
Plan Types
- Monthly Plans: Yes
- Block Plans: No
- Metered Plans: Yes
Misc
- Completion: 98%+
- Newsgroups: 100,000
- Connections: Up to 20 connections
- SSL: Yes
- Payment Options: : Credit card, mail in, 900 number
- Support Info: Phone support: 866-396-3974 - Phone support outside US - 1-602-445-1845 - Live chat support (encrypted) - Email suport:
- Support Email: support@easynews.com
News Server Addresses
- news.easynews.com (NNTP)
- secure.news.easynews.com (SSL NNTP)
- http://members.easynews.com/global4/search.html (HTTP)
- https://secure.members.easynews.com/global4/search.html (SSL)
Review Of Easynews
Easynews is provider offering something that can be described as certain advantage in comparison with other providers. This advantage is their web interface which is extremely easy to use for new usenet users. Technically, they offer both NNTP and HTTP servers, and the difference between the two is that the NNTP (news) server contains more groups on usenet and handles groups that contain both text and binaries in comparison with HTTP (web) server that contains only binary groups. Let’s also mention that they are one of the oldest usenet providers, offering their services since 1995.
Servers
They have server farms located both in Europe and in the North America. These servers are available on several ports so let’s skip right into this listing:
- news.easynews.com, available on port 119
- proxy.news.easynews.com, available on ports 21, 22, 23, 25, 53, 80, 110, 119, 8000 and 8080
- secure.news.easynews.com, available on ports 21, 22, 23, 25, 53, 80, 110, 119, 443, 563, 8000 and 8080 (SSL Encrypted)
- news.us.easynews.com, available on port 119
- proxy.news.us.easynews.com, available on ports 21, 22, 23, 25, 53, 80, 110, 119, 8000 and 8080
- secure.news.us.easynews.com, available on ports 21, 22, 23, 25, 53, 80, 110, 119, 443, 563, 8000 and 8080
- news.eu.easynews.com, available on port 119
- proxy.news.eu.easynews.com, available on ports 21, 22, 23, 25, 53, 80, 110, 119, 8000 and 8080
- secure.news.eu.easynews.com, available on ports 21, 22, 23, 25, 53, 80, 110, 119, 443, 563, 8000 and 8080
The subscriber is encouraged to use server address that will geolocate him or her to the nearest server farm.
Retention and completion
The retention rate is different for web and NNTP options. Therefore, the web retention is 200 days for Big Gig and Plus accounts and 150 days for Classic account. NNTP retention is 600 days for all the packages. The completion rate is over 99%.
Pricing
They offer 3 separate service tiers so let’s check the specifications for each of these:
- Classic: $9.98/month, 20GB per cycle, 1 bonus gig for every year of continuous signup
- Plus: $14.97/month, 40GB per cycle, 2 bonus gigs for every year of continuous signup
- Big Gig: $29.94/month, 150GB per cycle, 12 bonus gigs for every year of continuous signup
Each of these accounts provide rollover gigs, in other words, unused gigs are rolled into the next billing cycle.
Support
Support is available 24/7 365 days a year.
Account sharing
Account sharing is not allowed, as this violates their terms of service.
Access
The subscriber can log in from multiple computers from the same domain. However, if the account is accessed from more than 15 different domains, the password will be scrambled as a security precaution but it can be easily retrieved later.
Web interface
The web interface is available on the following addresses, by using the following ports:
http://members.easynews.com, port 81
https://secure.members.easynews.com, port 81 or 443 (secure)
Recommendation
We have seen better pricing options, but we can recommend them regardless of this as they offer a good quality usenet service with some nice additional features such as posting capability, ability to earn free Gig credits and finally, the binary retention (for NNTP) is excellent.
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