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Use VyprVPN on your Mobile Devices

Did you know as a Diamond Usenet member, you can secure your Internet browsing using VyprVPN not only on your computer, but also on your mobile device? VyprVPN protects your data beyond the Usenet world by encrypting all Internet traffic – e-mails, web browsing, IMs and beyond — helping to secure your online browsing.

We recommend using VyprVPN on your iPhone, iPad, and other devices, as you never know who may be viewing your traffic. We rely on mobile devices for critical and private data from our personal and work calendars to work e-mails and financial data. It’s important to protect that information from being accessed and used by others.

Giganews Diamond Members get VyprVPN free and can browse securely on many devices:

  • iPhone
  • iPad
  • iPod Touch
  • Android
  • Laptop
  • Desktop

Setup VyprVPN now, or upgrade to Diamond membership for free VyprVPN access.
To learn more, visit Golden Frog’s iPhone VPN page.

7 Things Newer than the Oldest Giganews Article

Here at Giganews, we’re celebrating being the first and only Usenet provider to reach 2 years of high-quality binary retention.

What 2 years of binary retention gets you:

  • 2 years of images and files
  • 10 billion+ newsgroup articles
  • Over 4,000 TB of Usenet data

Think about the things that didn’t even exist when the oldest accessible binary article was posted to Giganews Usenet:

We’ve done a lot for the Giganews infrastructure in order to accommodate the amount of data storage necessary to continue growing our retention capacity. Learn more about retention and the Giganews infrastructure.

Check out Reasons to get VyprVPN for Browsing Security and Privacy

Our friends at Golden Frog have an interesting blog post discussing great reasons for browsing securely with VyprVPN personal VPN.

VyprVPN protects your online identity, keeps your location private, and restores your web browsing freedom by securing your Internet connection against third-party data interception.

You can use VyprVPN everywhere:

  • Public Wi-Fi
  • Private Networks
  • 3G and 4G cellular networks

VyprVPN works on many devices:

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • Android
  • laptop
  • desktop

Diamond Giganews members get VyprVPN free. Check out the Golden Frog Blog to learn more about VyprVPN, or become a Diamond member for the best Usenet and VyprVPN.

Asian VPN Location Added to VyprVPN

Here at Giganews, we’re excited to let you know about Golden Frog’s latest addition of an Asian VPN server for VyprVPN. The new location is included with VyprVPN, a personal virtual private network that helps secure all of your online browsing. This VPN service is free for all Giganews Diamond members.
You can switch freely among any of our four worldwide VPN clusters:
  • USA VPN (West Coast): us1.vpn.giganews.com
  • USA VPN (East Coast): us2.vpn.giganews.com
  • Europe VPN: eu1.vpn.giganews.com
  • Asia VPN: hk1.vpn.giganews.com
Setup VyprVPN now, or upgrade to Diamond for free VyprVPN access.

700 Days of Binary Retention and Counting

Giganews is excited to be the first Usenet provider with 700 days of high-quality binary retention!
When it comes to Usenet service, high-quality binary retention and superior completion rates aren’t features a Usenet provider can have at the snap of a finger. This level of service is no sudden decision; it begins as a conscious decision to build the highest quality Usenet experience possible.
At Giganews, we maintain a history of innovating in order to give you the best possible Usenet experience. From Giganews Accelerator to VyprVPN, we continue to offer new Usenet features as we increase retention. Check out the Giganews timeline below:
Giganews Timeline
Our people
A strong foundation starts with the people behind the service – here at Giganews we’re passionate about Usenet and we’re driven to constantly find new ways to improve the entire Usenet experience. From service and technicians to our network and infrastructure, we do it all as full-time employees on an in-house network. No part of Giganews Usenet service is contracted or outsourced.
Our service
Whether an article is a day old or 700 days old, we created a system we would want to use: service with 100% completeness, availability and unlimited speed. Most Usenet providers lack the infrastructure and in-house technical professionals needed to support long-term, high-quality retention. When they push their system to the limit, it fails and their members experience downtimes, incomplete articles and missing retention. Our system is built from the ground up, and we run it on our own in-house, multi-redundant network of servers.
We’d like to hear from you. Get in the conversation by commenting below.
Curious to learn more? Join the newsgroup discussion at giganews.general.

Giganews Reaches 650 days of High Quality Binary Retention

Giganews keeps on going — today we reached 650 days of high-quality retention, and we’ll continue growing while still providing the best Usenet experience in the world. Other providers struggle in attempt to offer long-term retention because they don’t have the infrastructure and support team to handle the data, causing their systems to crash.

We are continuously focused on creating and maintaining an exceptional system that allows us to continue adding days of retention. It takes a lot of work and the right people — we have the space, the staff, and the in-house scalable infrastructure to store and support the data and system in order to allow for growth and adjustments.

Giganews systems are built from the ground up on our own multi-redundant network of servers. The Internet doesn’t open at 8 and close at 5, so our datacenter is staffed around-the-clock to keep things up and running.

Whether an article is 6 days old or 650, you get the same high-quality completeness, availability and unlimited speed through Giganews.

Curious to learn how Giganews does it? Learn more about how Giganews works.

We are a passionate group of Usenet users with a goal of creating and providing the most efficient and satisfactory Usenet experience. Have some feedback? We want to hear from you. Join the newsgroup conversation at giganews.general or start a discussion by commenting below.

VyprVPN Adds a New Server Location & Hostname Changes Required

Giganews is proud to announce that Golden Frog has added a new server location for VyprVPN on the East Coast of the US. This adds to the server locations on the West Coast and in Amsterdam. The VyprVPN Personal VPN service helps protect users from online eavesdroppers, scammers, advertisers, and the like while browsing the Internet and is a great privacy & security tool for Giganews customers.

This service upgrade requires a hostname change and must be completed by May 15, 2010 or your service will not work. Use the VyprVPN setup instruction to get OS-specific instructions.

VyprVPN Required Hostname Changes:
Current: us1.vyprvpn.com -> New: us1.vpn.giganews.com (West Coast)
Current: eu1.vyprvpn.com -> New: eu1.vpn.giganews.com

To Add the New Server Location use: us2.vpn.giganews.com (East Coast)

Golden Frog continues to improve the VyprVPN service with feedback from our users. If you haven’t seen the great reviews or want to give feedback – join the conversation on giganews.vyprvpn. We are always interested in hearing your feedback to help us continue to improve Giganews’ service.

VyprVPN’s Personal VPN is included free for all Giganews Diamond account. Sign up now or upgrade through your control panel.

Giganews Hits 600 Days of High Quality Retention!

Giganews is proud to announce that we are the first Usenet provider with 600 days of retention! Giganews now provides 600 days of retention with the same high quality and service Giganews customers expect. And we’re still growing! We continue to increase retention to provide Giganews customers with the best Usenet experience available.

Why Giganews Works So Well
We do it because we’re users, too (check out the newsgroup vyprvpn.giganews to see some candid discussions with Giganews employees on VyprVPN). Customers tell us everyday how frustrated they are with other Usenet providers because of poor completion rates and incompletes, especially among older articles. No one wants to deal with that. That’s why we built our service to have the same 100% availability, completeness, and unlimited speed regardless of how old the article is.

How It Works
So how do we do it? It all starts from the bottom up by building and maintaining all the systems for our services ourselves. We don’t outsource or contract this critical aspect of our Usenet service. Instead we’ve built all of our systems ourselves – from the hardware we own, the software we wrote, and the network we built. All this leads to smooth running systems providing the best Usenet experience available today. Plus, with our full time network and datacenter operations staff, we’ve got some very experienced people who make sure the Giganews service is always up and running.

We’ve hit 600 days. 700 here we come.

Have some feedback? Let us know what you think!