News Service Review
Last Updated: Mar 07, 2017
They do not offer accounts for individual users, you only have option to become a reseller.
Deals / Special Offer / Discounted Pricing
News Service has no special offers or discounted pricing plans.
Free Trial
There is no free trial for the services of News Service.
Plan / Price Offerings
They do not offer the accounts or individual users. You only have option to become a reseller. All you have to do is to send the e-mail to their sales departments and in that mail, you should mention your wishes and provide the basic information (personal name, company name, etc).
News-Service only charges data which is the direct result of the ARTICLE, BODY and HEAD NNTP commands. In other words, this means that the reseller will only be charged for the actual downloaded data, will not be charged for downloading headers, for the overhead caused by TCP/IP and for posting articles.
Finally, the customers can be charged based on the actual amount of downloaded data, per account basis or based on the actual used bandwidth. They do not state the prices for these services on their website.
Connection Speeds / Server Locations
We haven’t tried the download or connection speed of News Service, but it’s safe to assume it’s just average based on reviews.
Unfortunately, there is no information about server address, although, if you’re a visual type, it is good to know you can enjoy the images from their datacenter. The Usenet data is stored by News-Service on hundreds of servers and thousands of hard drives hosted in professional data centers.
The server farm is fully redundant and extremely scalable, allowing them to rapidly meet the customers growth. They own and operate a low-latency, multi-homed tier-1 network that is build on high quality equipment, has several 10-Gigabit connections to internet exchange points throughout Europe, to several high quality tier-1 carriers and to several large ISPs.
The SSL encryption is provided to all the customers. The alternative ports are also available: 7 alternative ports for downloading without SSL enabled and 4 alternative ports for downloading with SSL enabled.
Technical Notes / Network Information:
News-Service.com owns and operates a low-latency, multi-homed tier-1 network. The network, which is build on high quality, industry-leading network equipment, has several 10-Gigabit connections to Internet Exchange Points throughout Europe, to several high quality tier-1 carriers and to several large ISPs.
An extensive network of peering relations results in short paths to the end-users wherever they are located, which enables us to offer very fast speeds. The network is also easily capable of dealing with modern high-speed Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) connections. More details on our network can be found on our NOC page.
Quality of Service
We have not tested the service of News Service, but their website states that the actual binary retention is 307 days and actual text retention is 1452 days. The completion rate is 99.8%.
Customer Service
Email addresses on their website are only for the Sales Department, Abuse Reports, and Usenet & Peering Requests, none appears to be for Technical Support. We assume that the FAQ page is the only technical support they can provide their users.
Conclusion
They offer decent service, solid retention times but as we have already mentioned, they do not offer the accounts for individual users.
Finally, the future of the company is somehow uncertain because of the legal issues they are currently suffering from. Please check our list of the Best Usenet Providers for Usenet services that can meet your needs.
