Giganews Celebrates 2 Years of High-Quality Binary Retention

08/7/2010

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The Giganews team is proud to be the first and only Usenet provider reaching 2 years of high-quality binary retention. Giganews members are the only Usenet readers who can still read posts from as far back as two years ago. In two years, the Usenet feed has grown from 400Mbps to over 550Mbps.

Over 6 TB of data in the form of15 million articles is posted to Usenet from global members each day. For perspective, the largest consumer drive available today is 3TB. Usenet fills 2 of those drives every day. Giganews has stored every single article for 2 solid years. To date, Giganews has over 10 billion articles stored. To accommodate this capacity, Giganews stores multiple copies of all Usenet data, preventing incompletes and handle failures.

While increasing retention, Giganews focuses on increasing the power of its service:

Maintains 4 worldwide server clusters in order to have the processing required for the amount of data stored
Expanded global Usenet cluster into 5 additional worldwide sites to accommodate the increasing storage needs of Usenet
Tested IPv6, a new platform for Usenet, at NANOG

Giganews is passionate about Usenet and works hard to create the very best Usenet experience available. Giganews is the only Usenet provider capable of this capacity and retention, and has no plans to stop its retention growth any time soon.

About Giganews

Giganews, the world's largest and most trusted Usenet provider for more than a decade, offers unparalleled newsgroup access through a proprietary, scalable platform designed to maximize speed and reliability. Giganews serves individuals, as well as the largest Internet service providers, telecommunications companies, and multi-service providers in more than 200 countries, making it the top Usenet aggregation point in the world. More articles pass through Giganews on a daily basis than any other provider. In addition, the Giganews Newsgroups Archive hosts more than 7 billion articles requiring several petabytes (PB) of storage. Learn more about Giganews at http://www.giganews.com.

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