We have just been informed that Power Usenet, and Usenet.net have just had a massive retention upgrade. Both providers will now match retention and completion of Supernews at currently 1,093 Days (Correct As of 13/Aug/2011) of Binary Retention and about 3,000 days of Text retention. All these providers also will be increasing retention daily.

Added: 2011-08-13 13:24:29 by Administrator

We have merged with some of the leading NZB Site TopLists.

This move will incorporate and improve our own externally ranked nzb site list (based on pure traffic only, not user votes that can be inacurate).

We will soon be adding the ability to rate sites and more! If a site is not listed them please let us know via the Contact Us page.

Added: 2011-07-29 00:00:00 by Administrator

Amazing as it is, all the big players are now WAY over the 1,000 days retention.

When will they stop no-one knows....  Biggest mover in the retention games has been Newshosting/UsenetServer having jumped ahead of astraweb by one day.

Added: 2011-07-05 22:02:51 by Administrator

We have been working on updating the sites backend code for the past few months.  The result is a fully re-coded back end (makes life much better for us!) and a new slick front end for the end user (YOU!)  We have plenty more updates due, but we just could not wait any longer to go live with the new site.  As always, any suggestions use any of the contact methods on site!

As you may notice we have lost all the ratings and user comments in the update.  We would like your help.  If you use or have used a provider please add a short comment and rating.  We are also adding a reviews section, you can submit a review on the relevent pages.

Added: 2011-02-16 22:26:51 by Administrator

A little over a year and a half ago, we announced that we were going to be the first Usenet provider with a year's retention. We got to that year, and then just kept going. We hit two years a little while ago, and still kept going. Today, we've hit 800 days of binary Usenet retention -- and we're still going...

800 days is just a number, though. None of that retention matters if we don't also have good quality. For all 800 days, we have over 99% of the articles. On top of that, when we lose servers or disks, you don't see random articles disappear temporarily. In fact, most customers don't notice anything at all. Finally, our oldest, 800-day-old articles are stored on the same servers as our newest articles. If you want to fetch posts from 800 days ago, they'll download just as fast as posts that arrived today.

Our software and systems were designed years ago to handle this level of retention. Today, we hit 800 days of retention, but we're already ready for the next 800 days and beyond. Please enjoy the retention, and keep an eye out for new features we'll be rolling out in the coming months.

Added: 2011-02-11 11:14:47 by Administrator