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Usenet News Server - Corporate/ISP Accounts
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news.astraweb.com
offers a range of ISP and corporate services. If you do not find a
plan that suits you, please do not hesitate to contact us.
 Outsourcing: |
Outsourcing is suited towards ISPs who do not have the
infrastructure to setup and maintain a full newsfeed. Your users
connect directly to our servers, saving bandwidth and server
maintenance costs.
You will be provided with an IP address (point your news host
to it, eg. news.yourdomain.com) and all connections to the IP
will be "fully virtual". Even the connect message will broadcast
your address. Our server will be invisible to your users.
Pricing is per port, not per user. If you purchase 10 ports,
it means that at any one time, 10 connections may be made to
the server. A ratio of 10 users per port is usually adequate.
This means that if you have 100 dial-up users connected to your
ISP at any one time, you will require 10 ports from us.
Authenthication can be done via IP blocks or via a custom authenthication
program.
Min purchase: 10 ports
Recommendation:
Our 10 Kbyte/s port is recommended for dialup/ISDN users.
Our 75 Kbyte/s port is recommended for DSL/cable users.
 Price per
port, limited to 10 KBytes/s: $10/Month
Price per
port, limited to 75 KBytes/s: $75/Month
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| Suck
Feed: |
Suck feeds are suited towards ISPs who do not have the
infrastructure to setup and maintain a full newsfeed but want
to run their own server.
Your server will connect to our server and "suck" news only
when a user reads a newsgroup or at predefined intervals.
We charge per suck stream (number of connections to our server).
Each suck stream differs in pricing depending on the bandwidth
limitations.
Min purchase: 1 stream
Recommendation:
Recommended for DNews suck feeds and NNTPCache.
Recommended (but not necessary) a minimum of 2 streams.
Price per
port, limited to 50 KBytes/s: $50/Month
Price per
port, limited to 100 KBytes/s: $90/Month
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setup fees! |
| IHave
Feed: |
IHave feeds are suited towards ISPs who do not have the
infrastructure to setup and maintain a full newsfeed but want
to run their own server.
Our server will connect to your server and feed your server.
The throughput on ihave feeds is much higher than suck feeds.
Our IHave feed is not intended as a primary feed, but rather
as a secondary feed to complete your missing articles.
We do offer full feeds. Please contact
us for pricing.
We charge per ihave stream (number of connections to your server).
Each ihave stream is limited to 100 KBytes/s.
Min purchase: 1 stream
Recommendation: Recommended for DNews, Diablo, Typhoon,
INN.
Recommended (but not necessary) a minimum of 2 streams.
Price per
port, limited to 500 KBytes/s: $350/Month
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setup fees! |
| News
Server Colocation: |
News Server colocation is suited towards ISPs/Resellers
who do not have the network/infrastructure to setup and maintain
a full newsfeed but want to run their own server.
Your server will be colocated at our facility. Astra
Labs has been in the webhosting/colocation industry since
1997 and have setup and maintain a world class operation. We
are experienced in providing a fully managed solution.
We will provide a full unlimited binaries newsfeed to your server,
software management, hardware management and colocation facilities.
You will only need to pay for outgoing bandwidth and colocation
costs.
Server Colocation:
$50/Month
Outgoing
Bandwidth: $70/Mbit/sec Monthly
Full Newsfeed:
$500/Month
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setup fees! |
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