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aioe server retention
After the recent unreliability of eternal-september's server, I began using
the aioe server for newsgroups. But, it seems that retention for aioe posts is much shorter than eternal-september. For instance, this post is still on eternal-september, but not on aioe. |
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aioe server retention
Boris wrote:
After the recent unreliability of eternal-september's server, I began using the aioe server for newsgroups. But, it seems that retention for aioe posts is much shorter than eternal-september. For instance, this post is still on eternal-september, but not on aioe. Yes. Server retention varies from 2 days to 10 years, depending on the commercial or free nature of the server, how many disk drives and server rooms it has. The commercial ones are the ones with ten year retention. The commercial ones receive 800GB movie uploads per day, by single individuals. Google Groups is "almost infinity", but it isn't run by knowledgeable people, with any purpose in mind, so don't count on that for any normal purpose. Some groups there are in "archive state", which means new articles are no longer being added. Practically no administration is done on that setup - there are never any improvements or corrections to shortcomings (this group is *not* archived on Google Groups, as an example). The AIOE admin sets retention low, because the disk in the colo is only so big. And so the retention on the various groups, has to be adjusted accordingly. Commercial servers use much bigger disk farms, redundant back ends and so on. You can buy a block account from a commercial operation, or pay a monthly fee with a certain max number of connections to the server. You're paying for bandwidth, bandwidth cap, and retention, when you select a server to do business with. Paul |
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