Newshosting

This is the breadth-versus-depth question in its purest form. NewsgroupDirect spreads one subscription across four independent backbones; Newshosting gives you a single, very deep Omicron spool. They are optimised for different failure modes. What each one is actually for Newshosting is depth. Omicron is the largest archive in Usenet, and Newshosting resells it with a high connection count (up to 100) — so you get the deepest available retention and enough connections to use your line. If your failure mode is “the post I want is old and rare”, depth is your fix. ...

This one comes up constantly, and the answer surprises people: Newshosting and Eweka are the same archive. Both are front-ends on the Omicron backbone — the largest spool in Usenet — so the articles you can retrieve are effectively identical. Neither has “better retention” than the other, because there is only one retention figure underneath. So the real question is narrower: which front-end do you buy on Omicron? Where they genuinely differ The specs above tell the story. The headline gap is connections: Newshosting gives up to 100, Eweka caps around 20. On UK gigabit fibre, that is the difference between saturating your line and watching it idle on a quarter of it. ...