Service Upgrades - ThunderNews

ThunderNews Reaches 1500 Days Article Retention

ThunderNews has reached yet another milestone: 1,500 days of retention! We expect retention to continue to grow over time as we strive to bring our customers the very best Usenet newsgroup experience. If you’re already a member, congratulations, you already...

September 24, 2012

Service Alerts Service Upgrades Technology Usenet

Virgin Media Begins To Throttle USENET Newsgroups

Virgin Media has introduced new throttling “trigger levels” for customers who make heavy use of its network. The updated policy was brought into place yesterday and will throttle both download and upload speeds if users go beyond a usage allowance....

April 3, 2012

General Member News Newsgroups Service Alerts Service Upgrades Technology Usenet

ThunderNews Newsgroup Article Retention Increased To 650 Days!

ThunderNews now provides subscribers 650 days of retention across all 107,000+ newsgroups.

September 3, 2010

General Promotions Service Alerts Service Upgrades Technology Usenet

ThunderNews.com Features Increase To 50 Simultaneous Connections and 570 Days Retention

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...

March 25, 2010

General Member News Newsgroups People Promotions Service Alerts Service Upgrades Specials Technology Usenet

ThunderNews extends USENET Status Updates to Social Networks

ThunderNews.com, a leading provider of Usenet, has announced today that it will extend its support and status updates to include Facebook and Twitter. The two social networks will provide an additional channel to communicate to members as well as offer...

December 11, 2009

Newsgroups Service Upgrades Technology Usenet

ThunderNews Announces 400 Days Retention

ThunderNews.com is excited to announce retention is spooling to 400 days! This doubles our previous spooling capacity! Presently, our article retention has increased to 275 days with about 200 days of headers. At the present size of the Usenet feed...

May 19, 2009

General Service Upgrades Technology

ThunderNews Announces New European SSL Usenet Server Launch

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...

October 24, 2008

General Service Upgrades Technology Usenet

ThunderNews Offers 256 bit SSL NNTP Connections

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...

September 1, 2007

Member News Service Alerts Service Upgrades

Pay With Your UK Debit Card

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!

February 22, 2006

Member News Service Alerts Service Upgrades

You Can Now Pay by WorldPay

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...

February 21, 2006