Astraweb retention being increased to 270 days

**basilhaydens** · 01-06-2009, 05:54 PM

I presumed it was obvious that that retention increases henceforth, i.e. if XYZ is on the server aged 160 days, they would retain that for an additional 110 days going forward.

**jbloggs** · 01-06-2009, 06:43 PM

Originally Posted by rippinitup4fun

Originally Posted by seh

I've been wondering the same thing. Not like I really need the extra 90 days retention right NOW, but still..

I emailed them and asked and got the following respopnse:

Hi

The retention should reach 270 days in 110 days time (160 + 110 days).

Thank you for using Astraweb!

Looks like they are increasing it literally 1 day at a time.

Thanks for that info.

**Windy72** · 01-06-2009, 10:07 PM

Originally Posted by rippinitup4fun

Looks like they are increasing it literally 1 day at a time.

Then I will stick with Giganews for time being. Giganews website:

Originally Posted by Giganews.com

Giganews has grown to over 240 days of binary retention, the highest retention available from any Usenet server!

**EyeBaller** · 01-06-2009, 10:50 PM

Originally Posted by basilhaydens

I presumed it was obvious that that retention increases henceforth, i.e. if XYZ is on the server aged 160 days, they would retain that for an additional 110 days going forward.

I agree. I'm not sure how they would grow retention any faster than "real-time" .. they're not gonna recover overwritten files on their servers...

Originally Posted by Windy72

Then I will stick with Giganews for time being.

Just hope the Astraweb $11 deal doesn't expire.. Who knows when they'll pull it..

**Funkin'** · 01-07-2009, 05:51 AM

Even if they pull the $11 a month deal(which I'm sure they will, it's stated it's a limited offer), I just hope they'll keep the $39 for 3 months deal.

**xuxoxux** · 01-07-2009, 08:47 PM

Originally Posted by Funkin'

Even if they pull the $11 a month deal(which I'm sure they will, it's stated it's a limited offer), I just hope they'll keep the $39 for 3 months deal.

I am not placing any solid bets as to what will happen to the $11 offer, but it seems to be a very long limited time offer.
( 3 months for $39 is a very nice price for me too! )

**h1pp0** · 01-16-2009, 09:28 PM

I had astraweb for a while now and love them. Haven't had any connectivity issues the only thing is that even though they announced the upgrade to 270 days I still get partial missing pieces for files around 160 days old (thier old retention period). Other then that, $11/mo WITH SSL for more then 1/2 the price of giganews is a real good deal!