Afrihost Usenet Server

Do you make use of Afrihost free usenet server?

  • Yes

    Votes: 59 50.4%

  • No

    Votes: 34 29.1%

  • What is usenet?

    Votes: 24 20.5%
  • Total voters
    117
AfriNatic

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I want to add a poll to see who still uses the Afrihost Usenet server.

The current machine this server is running on doesn't have that much space for caching and I want to see if I can use an old game cache machine we have in Teraco to use as the Usenet server that will have more cache space.

news.afrihost.com
 
AfriNatic said:
I want to add a poll to see who still uses the Afrihost Usenet server.

The current machine this server is running on doesn't have that much space for caching and I want to see if I can use an old game cache machine we have in Teraco to use as the Usenet server that will have more cache space.

news.afrihost.com
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This would be great as I moved to another NNTP server due to articles not being available
 
Not with Afrihost, or I might.

Waiting for Fiber to be installed, then I can let RAIN 5G go, and join you guys again.
 
Something has changed with the server as its mostly down now, for the first time in years. What happened?
 
AfriNatic said:
I want to add a poll to see who still uses the Afrihost Usenet server.

The current machine this server is running on doesn't have that much space for caching and I want to see if I can use an old game cache machine we have in Teraco to use as the Usenet server that will have more cache space.

news.afrihost.com
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I did not use it but also didn't know about it till now!

Big usenet user.

Thats pretty slick!
 
didn't know news.afrihost.com existed , can we get some more info on settings SSL ports , max connections ?
busy adding it.
 
nemisiz said:
didn't know news.afrihost.com existed , can we get some more info on settings SSL ports , max connections ?
busy adding it.
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Only non-ssl for now

server: news.afrihost.com
ports: 119
connections: 8

username and password are blank. Only works on an Afrihost and Axxess connection.
 
Still don't understand the appeal of NTTP in this day and age, aside from a bit more anonymity. It's slow, cludgy, and requires an indexer to work properly in any case, which you probably have to pay for.

Anyway, buyer beware, we're in discussions with Afrihost to open it up on a trial basis, but there will be no guarantees. (hearts) @AfriNatic

If it breaks, or is slow, you get to keep both pieces. No warranty, no support.

As an aside, we basically /dev/null any DMCA complaints for torrents, and it would literally take a ZA court order for us to provide any subscriber information. So I suggest torrent away, it's way faster, and don't overseed.

I do. For linux distros of course...
 
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TheRoDent said:
As an aside, we basically /dev/null any DMCA complaints for torrents, and it would literally take a ZA court order for us to provide any subscriber information. So I suggest torrent away, it's way faster, and don't overseed.

I do. For linux distros of course...
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@AfriNatic can I also torrent… Linux distros… freely on Afrihost?
 
Saw this thread and I’m on Afrihost

I know nothing about news servers or Usenet (how does this differ from torrents ) would love to get an insight into this

What is it used for and how is it used , guessing it’s free on Afrihost and or can I use my oracle server for this

Thanks
 
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