NewsDemon has established a reputation for itself as one of the best and most valuable service available to customers. Aside from its reasonable prices and first-rate performance, it is known for its excellent customer service and remarkable accessories. Hence, NewsDemon has won 2011’s “Most Innovative Provider” award for its unique contributions to the Usernet community. It was one of the pioneers of the online backup services. NewsDemon increased its value by presenting customers with an online storage option with unlimited Usenet for $9.99 a month.
Lets do a checkup on them:
Binary Retention: 1020 days of binary articles are stored and a high level of completion across multiple newsgroups is guaranteed.
Pricing: There are two categories of pricing plans for monthly and block downloads. The monthly pricing plans include:
- $16.99 per month for ten simultaneous connections without SSL
- $19.95 per month for 50 connections with SSL
If you think a block account will be more feasible, the prices range from $2 for 10 GB to $87 for 1000 GB. The updated block plan makes the purchase worthwhile. Previously, the plan ended after a year. The latest plan offers non-expiring Usernet blocks that last indefinitely. You can now download the full amount of large blocks -500 GB to 1TB- without the worry of the account expiring.
The non-expiring block plans, varying from 10 GB to 1000GB, features 650+ days of binary retention, 50 simultaneous connections on 107,000 newsgroups and a free newsreader.
Also if you are a student you can get a 25% discount if you have an .edu email address on all plans.
All the plans promise free headers and free postings.
Free Trial: If you would like to give the service a try before you make a commitment, you can avail of free 15GB and 20 connections. The company provides free Usenet accounts to college/university faculty and staff in addition to accommodating employees of both qualified charities and media outlets.
Coupons: For $9.99 per month, you can enjoy the Demon Deal promotion. You will gain unlimited downloading and download speed, 50 SSL Connections, News Rover Software and 30 GB of Secure Online Storage.
A referral bonus encourages members to register new members via a free month of Usenet service. Also, a 25 percent life-time discount is offered to new customers on all packages plus block account packages on inserting a coupon code ‘comparere25’.
Speed: A back bone link of 10 Gps grants you a high download speed.
Security/Anonymity:Security is assured with a 256 bit SSL encryption, ensuring user information and downloads are secure and anonymous. Moreover, the Usenet service is uncensored.
Extras: Members have access to the following benefits;
- 100,000 newsgroups
- A 24 hour live Chat Support
- Storage Ninja: Similar to Amazon S3. Storage Ninja contains 30 GB of anonymous and rapid online storage which is interesting for backups or saving files online so you can access them from everywhere.
- Server farms are present in the US and Europe with up to 50 connections on premium plans and 10 connections on economy plans. Multiple server farms and the 50 connection guarantee high speeds from both continent. Also you can access their servers from multiple ports, even the stardart HTTP port 80 in case your ISP throttles your connection, making it possible to still get full speeds.
With SSL, you should be able to trick almost any attempt to screw with your downloads by your university, network administrator or ISP.
Recommendation:
NewsDemon has many positive points in its favor, such as a range of packages catered to meet different customer’s financial limits, long retention time and other useful offerings are notable incentives for you to give NewsDemon services a try. Compared to other Usenet service providers, it can keep up with the major providers, however the price is not as competitive on the standart plans.
However you might consider the special deal run at the moment, offering 3 months of unlimited Usenet for $21, which is $7 / month, even cheaper than Newshostings special deal.