Astraweb retention being increased to 270 days

[Sun devil]

Well fuck.. I went a got a $25 card.. I was going for astraweb, but they don't seem to like the 'gift' cards AMEX from BoA.. But guess who didn't care.. Yup, Giganews.. So until I decide to get a bank account again and welcome myself out of SSL and back to the grid, I'll be happy to pay a couple bucks more for peace of mind.




Regardless I'm glad to be done with fucking Easynews..

Technically, it's not astraweb that didn't like the gift card.. it's their payment processor. I'm guessing you just clicked the Buy Now button? that takes you to 2checkout.
They also use other payment processors though, if you used the special kleverig offer, you'll see at the bottom of the page it says: Dutch Users pay with iDeal here. You could try that, they also accept AMEX, ignore the part about dutch users, just change the country on the payment page :P

If you're doing one of the normal plans, the iDeal link will be on the left side of the page

[deadite21]

Its been 160 days for a while now. Wonder they will start increasing.

[Stephii [:]

Man astraweb is awesome Slightly cheaper than my old provider AND with an extra 90 days retention (so far... )

[Prasanth Genius]

Considering how cheap storage has become, this shouldn't be much of a shock.

Perhaps Giganews will extend their retention or drop prices?

With others also extending their storage, I see a price war on the near horizon.

The cost of storage, particularly with SATA drives, continues it's downward spiral. Prices now are breaching < $100/terabyte, I just bought two 1.5T at less than that level ($140).

So the next 'level' will be 365 days retention, it's almost within an easy shot right now. But every once in a while I do a 'sight check' on GN retention, and they're still 'ramping up' on the popular binary groups, still quite a bit short on retention there (last check a couple weeks ago showed around 170+ days).

[You bet your wife]

$11/ month for 270 day retention, crazy, just crazy good news.

[Leather Neck]

It really doesn't even matter how high their retention goes. 270 is more then enough for anyone to get what they need. The price is a big problem, I don't know how they can justify charging more then almost all other competitors.

I want more if I can get it.

And I don't really see a problem in paying $20-$30. This is just pocket money anyway.

[marchingbrassgirl28]

I'm sure the increasing will start fairly soon.

I'm really eager to see what Giganews is going to come back. I think they need to work on their prices right now and not their retention. Even if they up retention to 300(or whatever), why would you pay that much more Giganews? Astraweb has become a huge contender because of their price. And with this new retention, more and more are going to sign up with them.

[Mee M]

wow, 270 days is nice. Considering switching to astraweb now. Low prices as well.

[junglemonkey0097]

I have been trying to figure out what the retention is right now, and I belive that the retention is at 180 days as of today and growing.

[CandiceC.]

There's an idea for next month..