About Giganews Review
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Some backstory on Giganews as taken from the official Giganews "about us" page:
About Giganews
Serving consumers, Internet service providers, telecommunications
companies, and multi-service operators in over 170 different countries,
Giganews is the undisputed industry leader in Usenet services.
1994 - How It All Began
In late 1994, several foresighted entrepreneurs powered up a Sun SPARC
Classic workstation and created one of the very first Internet service
providers. That workstation also became the first news server in what
was to become the Giganews phenomenon.
These entrepreneurs dedicated themselves to building the best newsfeed
in existence and setting the new standards in Internet Service. Though
constantly searching for and adding new hierarchies and newsgroups
provided a high level of service, Giganews went one step further to
create robust and global peering arrangements, ensuring nearly instant
articles and post placements from anywhere in the world.
As the size of the newsfeed grew, Giganews provided additional storage
to maintain retention rates, and fresh new approaches to server
management were implemented to keep pace with the continuing growth.
1998 - Rapidly Expanding Newsgroups Service
In the summer of 1998, Giganews officially opened its news servers to
the world and launched a member-friendly website portal interface. As
other independent news services started to establish themselves in the
Internet community, word of Giganews' high-quality newsfeed and
exemplary member service started to get around and the service offerings
expanded.
2000 - The Move To Broadband Usenet
As broadband options became more ubiquitous, Giganews was quick not only
to recognize the changing face of the Internet, but also to modify its
service offerings based on member requirements.
2005 - Size, Speed and Quality Lead To Industry Leadership
Over the last several years the size of the Giganews newsfeed has grown
exponentially, and on any given day tens of million articles on the
Giganews servers are stored. Giganews optimizes delivery speeds around
the globe by utilizing multi-homed Gigabit+ connections to multiple
Internet backbones, and offers the highest retention rates in the
industry.
Diversity of upstream routing provides an outage-proof infrastructure
and ensures the articles you request are delivered as fast as your
Internet connection allows.
Due to the exponential growth of Usenet, Giganews continues to deploy
innovative management of servers and storage. For instance, the Giganews
Cluster consistently sets the highest standards in the Usenet industry
for retention and completeness. Members enjoy the following
industry-leading retention rates:
- 1259 days in multi-part binary newsgroups
- 1259 days in single-part binary newsgroups
- 3129 days in text newsgroups
- 99%+ completion rate
