Astraweb vs Giganews

**SonsOfLiberty** · 09-11-2009, 08:11 PM

Originally Posted by JustDOSE

Astraweb rules, Giganews drools.... hehe

Easy there, if you haven't noticed Giganews pays for this site (with advertising)....but yes Astraweb has the much better deal and no speed difference, but also Giga deletes alot of articles though too, mostly HBO shows, but it is annoying for Giganews users.

**topicaltapioca** · 09-11-2009, 08:55 PM

Giganews being known as #1, they'll be the first to be sent notices to delete the articles.

**SonsOfLiberty** · 09-12-2009, 04:38 PM

I think they do it without being sent notices, that's the scary thing, Astraweb as far as I know, just keeps deleting the Dark Knight posts.

Giganews won't be #1 long if they don't restructure there pricing scheme.

**pikwun** · 09-14-2009, 12:08 PM

top,

I was a lifelong supporter of Giganews up until they started killing some groups and even removing a bulk of uploads that I was posting on usenet. I emailed Astraweb and asked if they would do the same and they replied that only if it was spam, a copyright infringement, or illegal p*rn material--which it wasn't any of it. Some troll was jealous of my samples that i was uploading and reported me and Giganews concurred and removed my posts.

I have been using Astraweb for over 6 months now and love their retention, speed (was only getting half my bandwidth with Giganews for some reason on the EU servers) and SSL is FREE!!! i also got the $96/year deal. Someone said earlier that they are worried their service may plateau which makes sense but i think it may have been the exact opposite. They could have the money brought up front from all the sign ups and invest it in more storage capacity--i think that's their next move.

i love Astraweb.

Good luck.

**Skiz** · 09-14-2009, 12:13 PM

What were you uploading?

Did you contact GN about the removals?

**SonsOfLiberty** · 09-14-2009, 03:53 PM

Skiz, Giganews has been removing articles for awhile now, they remove any HBO show, almost the next day from there servers.

pikwun, if you upload alot, just get a $2 block account, those never expire and uploads don't count as traffic, so if you upload anyting on the fringe, then Astraweb would not kill your account, because Giganews could have disabled your account.