Giganews has completed a major storage upgrade on their global Usenet
server cluster which will grow binary retention to 120 days. This
upgrade changes the face of Usenet by allowing thriving newsgroup
communities to engage for longer periods of time through fast and
reliable Usenet servers. With 120 days of retention, Giganews will
offer nearly 1 billion Usenet articles in over 100,000 newsgroups.

Less than two months ago, Giganews was the first Usenet provider to
hit the century mark for binary retention, but in keeping with a
commitment to meet and exceed the expectations of its customers,
Giganews has again increased storage capacity which will allow
Giganews’ Usenet binary retention to grow to 120 days over the next 18
days.

“When we completed our last

retention upgrade to 100 days we were pleased, but we wanted to
push ourselves to the next level. Giganews is in a perpetual upgrade
cycle and this current upgrade is just part of our larger goal of
re-investing in our server infrastructure for the benefit of our
customers. At Giganews we feel we have a responsibility to push the
envelope when it comes to services and features and we hope these
efforts will help expand and support the greater Usenet community as a
result,” said David Vogelpohl, VP of Marketing and Sales at Giganews.

Giganews has been making Usenet history since its inception, by
regularly expanding the scale of Usenet retention and offering
newsgroup communities more available articles than any other Usenet
system. Giganews was also the first Usenet server to provide true
broadband download speeds by offering non-rate limited access to its
world class Usenet system.

In 2006, Giganews set another Usenet milestone by developing, and then
expanding,
the use of
SSL encryption to help ensure security and anonymity for the Usenet
community.

120 Days of retention is a first for Usenet and a significant
achievement for Giganews. Increased retention times allow for
newsgroup communities to access posts over a longer period of time and
through a larger pool of articles. Giganews is proud to offer this
first for the Usenet community and is looking forward to further
improving its services and features.

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