Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 21:31:33 -0500 From: "Ron Hensley" <ronh@intercom.net> To: "Dale Chulhan" <dchulhan@uwi.tt>, "FreeBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: [OT] NewsFeeds Message-ID: <002101c1787d$f9ae7650$0273150a@woodstock.lanalyse.com> References: <3C059B41.1E899EBB@uwi.tt>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A Full News Feed uses multiple T1s worth of Bandwidth for starters, so you have to take that cost into consideration without even looking at paying for the feed. If you only have a T1 internet connection and buy a full feed from a larger provider, it will destroy your T1 24/7. If you have a T3, expect it to drain a good 3-6 T1s worth of bandwidth. It also requires 30gb-200gb of Hard Drive storage to even store a few days of news A full news feed itself runs about $600 or so a month (The providers bandwidth to the Internet is getting used up as well, sending to you). Generally people get the news feed from the Internet Provider they get the T1 from, as then the only bandwidth they are using is directly from them to you, and its your Quarter to use as you want. Outsourcing your users to a remote news feed is the way to go for small to mid sized folks in my honest opinion. Ive had great success with webusenet.com and their ispnews service. They charge $17.95 a month per port (Connection) so if youd think the max youd have or need is 100 users at a given time then youd need 100 ports at $1700 a month or 10 users then $170 a month. No matter what its expensive!!! - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dale Chulhan" <dchulhan@uwi.tt> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 9:19 PM Subject: [OT] NewsFeeds > Hello, > > I am the net admin of a new college in the CAribbean here. > > Simple Q: What's the cheapest way to get in on a FULL news feed? IE is > there any one out there that carries all the news groups that will let > me pull their USENET with little or no cost? > > What are your recommendations? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com>; iQA/AwUBPAWeBFFb04N5DzUjEQLwOwCeN+anQnGBnDGSYDf9eT3x6tGHw6gAn3al ZGsqZB3Z+AN9eEzQCc8PjYGa =e+wq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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