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ThunderNews.com Features Increase To 50 Simultaneous Connections and 570 Days Retention
March 25th, 2010
ThunderNews.com now offers 570 days of retention on binaries alongside 50 lightning fast simultaneous connections, providing better service to members without any increase in price.
With recent storage upgrades, ThunderNews.com is proud to be able to offer members the benefits of a higher binary retention on all of the 107,000+ supported newsgroups; which is still growing by the day. The added features are automatically employed to all new and existing members. ThunderNews.com has an array of memberships and plans to meet almost any budget.
The 570 days of retention on binaries allows access to an expanded history of articles and follows another ThunderNews.com upgrade which now allows members to access Usenet with up to 50 simultaneous connections. The increase in connections gives users the tools to gain information faster than ever before. Each connection also employs 256 Bit SSL encryption which insures both privacy and security. These upgrades enhance the core features of ThunderNews.com’s 24/7 support, 99.9% completion and a free newsreader with any subscription or plan.
ThunderNews.com has long provided the Usenet community with lightning fast quality Usenet access at affordable pricing. These newly added features of both newsgroup binary retention and the increase to 50 simultaneous Usenet connections are all designed to add value to our overall customer experience.
ThunderNews Announces 400 Days Retention
May 19th, 2009
ThunderNews.com is excited to announce binary retention is spooling to 400 days! This doubles our previous spooling capacity! Presently, our binary article retention has increased to 275 days with about 200 days of headers. At the present size of the Usenet feed and with projections for its size in the future, our retention will be growing to between 400 and 425 days by the end of 2009.
Our text article retention now reaches back over 1250 days.
We continue to invest in technology and infrastructure to bring the best Usenet has to offer to you, our customers. These service upgrades are brought to you without any additional cost for you. As always we appreciate your business.
ThunderNews Announces New European SSL Usenet Server Launch
October 24th, 2008
ThunderNews is excited to announce that we have launched our much awaited European SSL Usenet servers. The new European SSL Usenet servers offer the same newsgroup selection and retention as our regular European news servers. ThunderNews customers who subscribe to the Premium SSL account type can access the new Usenet servers now by using the news server name secure.eu.thundernews.com and the same ports as you use to connect to the secure.us.thundernews.com server. Log in on the Member’s pages for more details on connecting to the European SSL news servers.
If you do not have a Premium SSL account and want to upgrade your existing ThunderNews account to the Premium SSL level, please enter an upgrade request at the ThunderNews Help Desk and we will be happy to assist.
Server Migration Information
September 30th, 2008
ThunderNews is excited to announce that on October 1, 2008, we will bring our newest Usenet server farm online for our Premium and Premium SSL customers. The new server hardware is designed with multiple levels of redundancy, better load balancing, more connection capacity and room for increased article retention.
On October 1, we will move all of our traffic on the Premium US and Premium US SSL servers to the new server farm. The server names will remain the same.
This change will be transparent for most of our customers. However, there are two important changes that you need to make to assure uninterrupted service:
1) The connection port list is changing. The port list will now be the same for the US and the European servers. You should check your newsreader client software setup to confirm your client is using one of the ports below to connect.
If you use News Rover, you can check your connection setup on the News Rover ‘Configure’ menu, ‘Server’ tab.
us.thundernews.com on NNTP Port: 119, 443 or 8080
eu.thundernews.com on NNTP Port: 119, 443 or 8080If you subscribe to Premium SSL, use this config info:
secure.us.thundernews.com on SSL Port: 563, 80 or 81
2) As part of the move, we are resynchronizing message ID’s so they are the same across all farms. This will have no impact on you if you do not store message headers. If you subscribe to newsgroups and store message headers, you will need to clear your current headers and get a fresh list beginning October 1. Otherwise, you may receive ‘Message not found’ errors after the move. Click here for more details.
As always, we appreciate your business and look forward to serving your Usenet needs. Please contact us at our Support Desk if we can be of assistance.
ThunderNews Offers 256 bit SSL NNTP Connections
September 1st, 2007
ThunderNews is please to announce we now offer 256 bit SSL encrypted NNTP connections!
SSL encrypted NNTP connections offer another level of security and privacy allowing you to safeguard your computer’s communications with our news server when browsing messages. With SSL connections, your Usenet communications are encrypted from your ISP, other network providers and any others attempting to monitor traffic.
You may open an account with secure SSL NNTP access by choosing our Premium SSL Server option on our SignUp page.
Pay With Your UK Debit Card
February 22nd, 2006
ThunderNews is pleased to announce that we can now accept your payment by UK debit card. Through WorldPay, we can accept your Solo, Switch/Maestro, Visa Electron, Delta and JCB card.
Join ThunderNews.com today and pay with your UK Debit card!
You Can Now Pay by WorldPay
February 21st, 2006
ThunderNews is pleased to announce that we have added WorldPay as a new payment option. You can now JOIN THUNDERNEWS and securely pay for your new account through WorldPay. The addition of WorldPay allows us to accept payments by your Solo, Switch/Maestro, Visa Electron, Delta, and JCB cards.
You are not required to have a WorldPay account to set up a payment to ThunderNews. If you choose the WorldPay option during the ThunderNews join process, you will be forwarded to WorldPay to complete the payment details. WorldPay will send you a confirmation e-mail with your ‘FuturePay’ information.
We Now Offer 3, 6 & 12 Month Term Accounts
February 19th, 2006
ThunderNews now offers accounts with 6 month terms. These accounts work just like our regular monthly accounts, but are offered at a discount. Many of you asked for longer term accounts and we listened!
You can JOIN NOW with a 6 month account at the 15 GB/Month, 30 GB/Month, 150 GB/Month 5 GB/Day and Unlimited /Month account levels as well as various 3 and 12 months accounts as well.
If you would like to upgrade your current account to a longer term account just contact our Support Team and they will be happy to assist.
Free NewsRover NewsReader Software
May 4th, 2005
ThundersNews announces today that we now offer the News Rover usenet newsreader client for our customers. We are proud to offer the very popular News Rover software to our customers FREE!!!
News Rover is normally offered for sale at $29.95, but we offer it to our customers at no charge. We are confident that once you try our news servers, you will impressed with the fast speeds, long rentetion and great article completion rates.
News Rover is packed with great features that save you time and effort when surfing the Usenet. News Rover provides: automated downloads, download tracking, and viewers for several file formats. News Rover is adept at handling multipart messages.
Check out the full feature list at NewsRover.com.
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