IS news server

bwana said:
I've been using easynews for almost two years now and they're awesome but thats because like giganews they're professionals. I've got a suspicion that IS is losing out big time by not having a paid server and is also generating a hefty amount or animosity.

Is the SAIX server as good as people say?
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you don't hear anyone complaining about them... maybe they assassinate you if you speak badly about it ;)

how much money is there to make in a pay server for a company running such a service - speaking in RSA terms now ?
 
bwana said:
Is the SAIX server as good as people say?
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Give it a shot if you've got some bandwidth, I'd love more options like HTTP downloads etc., but it's really fast for me and I've downloaded some really old stuff, SAIX mirrors Giganews, so I think it should be essentially the same retention etc. ;)
 
Necuno said:
you don't hear anyone complaining about them... maybe they assassinate you if you speak badly about it ;)

how much money is there to make in a pay server for a company running such a service - speaking in RSA terms now ?
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In SA I think it would be tight if you werent one of the big boys. Its long been my suspicion that IS only applies their unused bandwidth towards the servers (instead of dedicating bandwidth) in an effort to use it rather than lose it.
 
bwana said:
In SA I think it would be tight if you werent one of the big boys. Its long been my suspicion that IS only applies their unused bandwidth towards the servers (instead of dedicating bandwidth) in an effort to use it rather than lose it.
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true - last ditch effort to string along some ppl.

tier one isps then are better of to host a server ?
 
Necuno said:
you don't hear anyone complaining about them... maybe they assassinate you if you speak badly about it ;)

how much money is there to make in a pay server for a company running such a service - speaking in RSA terms now ?
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I don't think it is feasable for anyone other than the top ISPs to do it, but if I were to go about something like this, I wouldn't start off with all the groups, just the top ones, and the idea would be to cache things locally, as is (supposedly) done currently. And maybe if you worked a deal with IS and SAIX to both use the same server farm, it would bring about a more affordable way of accessing the same data.

Ok, so the last part is a bit far fetched (is it?), but if started off small with a good price scheme, I think it could work.
 
shared sever farm isn't that bid idea - but arg getting the tiers to work together thats another story...
 
one can only wonder what that *file* was hehehe ;)

i've been doing dungeons and dragons online update at glorious 8-10KBps and sometimes 20KBps whole day.

sigh - unshape its nice and fast.... i which that game had a manual update option or atleast a threaded system.
 
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