Hi Jalebi. By any chance, is your "friend" the same person who has been hitting a lot of the Dutch Usenet forums in the past few months saying that this company is the perfect fit for his needs?
It seems it's always the new people who will bring up some obscure new-born company that no one has ever 'heard' about, in a post that reads more like an advertisement.
You seem like a knowledgeable person, and it seems to me that someone with the knowledge of what a "back-end provider" is would hopefully know that a server carrying only 5% of the retention of a major NSP is almost certainly going to be an independent standalone server - and not a reseller using a back-end provider, which typically has up to 20-times the retention of this particular provider's 40 day retention.
The listed price of this service is 5 Euro/month, not €2 (yearly is €25, which works out to a little over €2/mo. when prepaid annually). The huge price spread (on a per-month basis) between monthly and yearly accounts would suggest to me that they might be desperate for immediate cash - which is not an unusual situation for a start-up company.
At least the website is honest that the service is over-subscribed, and therefore slow during peak hours. I would venture a guess that they do not get DMCA takedowns like the more established usenet providers are often plagued with, and this fact alone might make this company worth taking note of. (and unlike many NZB sites, they don't even list a procedure for dealing with infringement claims) The company does not appear to advertise - not counting all the mentions on usenet discussion forums by new users.
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