Welcome to the Giganews blog. This is a corporate blog set up to keep our customers up to date on everything going on at Giganews. We’ll be posting on our own experiences using Giganews and other Usenet related technologies.
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Anonymous says
Cool.. am i the first one to comment?
Keep up the good work guys!
Anonymous says
Cool! I am the second one!
Anonymous says
2nd!
YES, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK AND GREAT RETNETION!!
Anonymous says
Yes, you are
Eddy
LongJohn129 says
Hey I am here too!
Anonymous says
Bonne idée, bravo !
Good idea, after years of painful surprises and desapointments, my quest for a reliable newshosting company has ended earlier this year. it’s like a dream come true. I used to have 3 or 4 days retention with my previous one… it was a nightmare. And now, with this blog, it’ll be probably very interesting and maybe even useful. I live in Switzerland, and usenet is still one of the least known part of the Internet. All the best for your blog !
Jacques-Olivier, Geneva.
Anonymous says
YAY SIXTH! LOL.
-MAYHEM.
Anonymous says
I love Giganews I am a poster to number 7!!!
Anonymous says
Yes I am the 7th keep it up Giganews you are #1.
MAYHEM says
sixth!
Anonymous says
Hrm, it’s still saying only 1 comment on the initial page…..working as intended!
Anonymous says
Nice work Giganews! Interested in seeing what you’ll be posting here…
Anonymous says
Great GigaNews. Super service!!!
Anonymous says
yeah, nice one giganews!!! looks like the mass mail out about this blog has slowed the site a little tho 🙂
keep the retention and great download speeds coming!
Anonymous says
Good stuff. Maybe we’ll do something like this on our site if it works out well.
Anonymous says
I’d love to see a photo tour of the hardware giganews uses.
Anonymous says
Great news. Can’t wait to hear some of the inner-workings of giganews.
Anonymous says
” Anonymous said…
I’d love to see a photo tour of the hardware giganews uses.
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Yes – or a factsheet of what youre using 🙂 how much, etc
Anonymous says
I agree, your service and your customer service rock.
I 2nd the photo tour idea!
Anonymous says
I hope to see some inter-office hyjinks…perhaps a line up called, “The Ladies of Newsbin” or “Employee car of the Week”. I’d like to see GN instead of a lot of text.
Anonymous says
yay giganews!
the best servers and customer service in the industry!
thanks guys.
misterorange says
Awesome. I hope the blogging works out for you. I can only imagine the tales of Giganews employees 🙂
Anonymous says
This service is simply amazing, and is a steal at $25 a month. Thank you !!
Anonymous says
Your servers have far out performed any of the rivals that I’ve tried! Keep up the great work, it’ll certainly be interesting to hear some tales from your net admins, security guys, etc.. 🙂
Anonymous says
Great to see you joinging the blogging community, I have already added it to my bloglines.
Aaron says
god bless giganews.
Anonymous says
Wow, in at the start of history. Now thats really something
Anonymous says
Mark another hardware viewing request. I can’t imagine what your server farm looks like with the retention you guys are sporting.
Here’s a quick question: to have the kind of retention you do, how many gigs of storage space does that require?
Anonymous says
Sweet, Giganews keeps on growing!
First usenet company that tries to reach the community and its users? 🙂
Anonymous says
don’t tell people about usenet dammit!
Profit says
The world is a good place =)
*waves to all the other bloggers in friendly manner
Anonymous says
Good idea: blogger.com = easy blog for every one with multi lingual interface 🙂
Thanks for the quality of your service. I’m a very satisfied subscriber for a couple of years now. While the great reliability of your server was always close to 100%, the retention though a bit short in the beginning (+- 15d in binaries) is really ok now.
Thank you and continue the good job !
Streamfire Photography says
I’d love to visit your data center with my desktop. What I would give to be able to jack in via fiber to your network and download till all my hard drives was stuffed full of data…
Anonymous says
Just another feature added to a service that I didn’t think could get any better. Keep up the great work guys.
Anonymous says
Congratulations Giganews! I admire companies that are willing to run company blogs. It shows you guys care about your customers and are willing to interact with them in as many ways as possible.
Way to go!
Anonymous says
Awesome…. Giganews ROCKS!
Anonymous says
1 year subscriber and I wouldnt change hosts for the world! YOU GUYS ARE THE FREAKING BEST!!!!!! If you are a potential customer, you wont go wrong with these guys or *I* will give you your money back! lol!
Anonymous says
Love your service and your retention. Keep up the good work.
Great Day
Anonymous says
Cool, am i 23rd?
BF says
Nice move Giganews. I would also like to see a users forum, where we all could share ideas about how to improve our Usenet experience and our experiences with the latest utilities and apps. Giganews rocks! Keep it up!!
Anonymous says
Keep up the good work guys- I lurve my Giganews!
Anonymous says
Damn good service – Keep up the good work.
I’m curious does Gignews publish how large their current file storage system is?
silvaboy says
Great job guys. Gn rocks. Love the unlimited download plan
Keep up the great work
Anonymous says
excellent service guys.
retenetion that cant be beaten
Anon Emous says
Great Newsgroups site.. been using it for several years now. Thanks and please keep up the good work!
pl
von says
Nice! Thanks for the service.
Stouty says
I have been a Giganews customer for over 5 years. They are wonderful, as during that time, they have provided continued improvement in retention, speed, and pricing packages. They continue to provide more value for less cost from year to year. The only problem with the unlimited plan, is that my ISP sent me a nasty letter because of the amount of “News” I was reading. Their message was all about the bandwith. I think anything over about 50 Gig a month is their trigger. Would be interested to hear what other isp’s do concerning large bandwith users. Rock On ! Giganews, and thanks for the great service.
Marbman says
So do we get a prize for being like the first 50 or so posters 🙂 ???
-Marbman
D E Z says
I use the 25gig option. Everything I need is just a click away……..Thanks Giganews
King Tiger II says
Best retention and speed on internet.
10/10
🙂
skyy22 says
The best usenet service ever! I really enjoy how you keep increasing retention days and services. Giganews forver!
Benito Vergara says
But… what would you folks even blog about? Apologize for every time the server goes down? Explain the missing headers? That’s, like, never happened! =)
Seriously though — I’ve been a customer since March 4, 2001, and I’ve never looked back since. You folks are amazing.
Jimerb says
Whoo hoo! Giganews Rocks!
Infrequently does a company provide such a good product that there’s nothing to complain about.
Retention keeps growing – speed is awesome. Server is reliable. Premo.
I’d love to see an indexing service someday with a notification option if what your looking for is posted.
Keep up the great work!
bobbel66 says
Great service but a bit expensive tu use the unlimited account IMHO 😉
Usenet Leech says
Outstanding service, retention and completion. As long as Giganews is in business, I am a faithful customer!
mypetsstory says
Good service! I use it a long time and very enjoy it.
samik says
Here’s another happy customer. Keep up the good work!
Hueydude says
Thanks for the great service!! Keep up the good work!!
JeRrYFaR says
I guess I’m number 60.. this is cool.. can’t wait to see what you have to say in the future.. Keep up the good work!
swollen_thumbs says
I would like to see an indexing of whats on the servers. Would make things a lot easier. Create a forum also.
Boris Pasternak says
Nice work lads, adding this service for your customers.. Personally think that Giganews is one of the best, and this will continue with initiatives like this. Succes!!
stoneyjo says
Reply for Stouty about ISPs and bandwidth – I had a problem with that and just did a search for ISPs and ended up with one that has 500Gb a month as its fair-use policy, as most of the unlimited(!) accounts seem to trigger at 100Gb and I objected to getting a nasty letter the first and only time I went over the limit! BTW this is in the UK. I’ve been with Giganews for over a year now and have never had any problems so am very happy with the service. Thank you Giganews.
BuBu says
I guess the good folks at Giganews realize what the word ‘Unlimited’ means.
With all the retention, I think they have a Master Plan, er, hidden agenda, to become the Inter-galactic Archivist’s!
Having nothing to complain about the service, I’ll make a wish for faster header retrieval.
Anon Emous says
Reply for Stouty about ISPs and bandwidth — my ISP (Rogers.com in Canada) limits downloads to 75 GB per month.. more than I ever use or need.
They also offer a service for users to log on and check what the current month’s usage is at.. it helps heavy users manage their downloads.
Anonymous says
Your service ranks second to none—tried others but always come back to the best—thanks!!!
Anonymous says
Yea keep up the good work, you guys rock, and think you guys will give us a behind the scences look at what kind of hardware you guys are running, im sure most of us geeks would love to see what you need to host usenet at 1mb/s plus speeds.
Anonymous says
Does anyone have a phone number or address to contact Giganews?
Giganews says
Giganews only provides email based support. You can reach Giganews’ support team by emailing support – at – giganews.com
Anonymous says
Good stuff. Maybe we’ll do something like this on our site if it works out well.
Anonymous says
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Unknown says
How the hell do I get thes cowboys to answer my emails that I have sent in on the contacts webpage, I still havent had my username and password, it says up to an hour, i have been at work all day and still no pissing username and passeord. I want the damned thing now. I have paid for this service dammit.
Giganews says
@wizard401
Our support department is very quick at answering emails. It could be that your spam filter has filtered emails from Giganews. Check your spam folder and make sure to add giganews.com to the list of approved domains.
If you’re using a Microsoft based email like MSN, live.com, or hotmail please use a different email address to communicate with Giganews.
Microsoft has massive problems delivering emails and Microsoft based emails are no longer supported by Giganews.
Hope this helps.