NewsgroupDirect Review
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Newsgroupdirect- 600 days binary retention |
Pricing Plans
- unlimited, 50 conn, SSL - $20.00
- 60 GB/mo., 50 conn, SSL - $15.00
- 40 GB/mo., 10 conn, SSL - $12.00
- 20 GB/mo., 10 conn - $8.00
- 50 GB block, 50 conn, SSL - $15.00
Retention
- 600 Days of Binary Retention
- 1400 Days of Text Retention
Plan Types
- Monthly Plans: No
- Block Plans: No
- Metered Plans: Yes
Misc
- Completion: 99%+
- Newsgroups: 107000
- Connections: Up to up to 50 connections
- SSL: Yes
- Payment Options: : Visa, Master Card, Discover, WorldPay
- Support Info: Live online support - Online support tickets - Knowledgebase
News Server Addresses
- news.newsgroupdirect.com
- news-ssl.newsgroupdirect.com
- news-eu.newsgroupdirect.com
- news-eu-ssl.newsgroupdirect.com
Review Of Newsgroupdirect
NewsgroupDirect is premium provider of high speed usenet newsgroups. They promise to provide the subscriber with the fastest and most reliable usenet access in the industry. On their website, you can find 11 reasons why someone should choose them for usenet services. There, they highlight the facts that they are reliable, they offer great retention and speed, superior support, affordable quality, privacy, free newsreader software and some other things. Let’s discuss in detail are these facts really realistic or not.
Servers
The servers are available at the following addresses:
- news.newsgroupdirect.com – ports 119, 443 (for all customers from USA)
- news-ssl.newsgroupdirect.com – ports 563, 80 – (for all customers from USA using SSL)
- news-eu.newsgroupdirect.com – ports 119, 443 – (for all customers from USA)
- news-eu-ssl.newsgroupdirect.com – ports 563, 80 – (for all customers from USA using SSL)
As you have already noticed, SSL encryption is available. Although some options do not offer SSL, the subscriber can upgrade to a higher plan that supports SSL simply by logging into the website.
Retention and completion
The binary retention is 610 days, text retention is 1400 days and the completion rate is 99%.
Pricing
They offer 2 unlimited and 3 metered options. There is 7 day, 15 GB free trial (comes with unlimited package) available as well. The prices for unlimited and metered packages are:
- unlimited: $20/month, 30 GB of online storage is included (provided by StorageNinja)
- unlimited yearly: $200 / year, 30 GB of online storage is included
- Power plan: $15/month, 60 GB of download limit, SSL encryption included
- Pro plan: $12/month, 40 GB of download limit, SSL encryption included
- Starter plan: 8/month, 20 GB of download limit
- 50GB Block: $15
The block account will never expire. Let’s also mention that free trials are available only to customers that are paying by US credit card.
Privacy
They do not and cannot log what the subscriber downloads. All they see is the volume of information being downloaded by subscriber, but not the content of this information though.
Bandwidth
While talking about bandwidth characteristics, let’s mention this:
- unused bandwidth does not rollover
- bandwidth resets between 12 AM and 1 AM EST on the subscriber’s cycle date
- if the subscriber goes over the allowed bandwidth, the account will be locked out of the server until the cycle reset
Recommendation
Decent service, they have some nice features (such as free trial and free online storage) and let’s mention that the retention is excellent. On the other hand, the price for unlimited package is far from being the best on market.
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