Altopia Profile
Web site:
- http://www.altopia.com
Servers:
- news.altopia.com
Plan types:
- umlimited usenet
Service details:
- Binary retention: 8 to 52 days
- Text retention: 220 days
- Completion rate: unknown
- Number of Newsgroups: 124,000+
- Simultaneous Connections: 2-20
- Server Farms: US
- Ports: 119 non-secure, 563 SSL
- SSL Encryption: SSL included
Support:
- email support: support@altopia.com
Pricing plans:
- unlimited SSL, 20 connections - $18.00/mo.
- unlimited SSL, 15 connections - $15.00/mo.
- unlimited SSL, 10 connections - $12.00/mo.
- unlimited SSL, 5 connections - $9.00/mo.
- unlimited SSL, 2 connections - $6.00/mo.
Altopia offers a free account for testing their servers. It offers read access to '.news' groups to test performance.
Test account information:
- server: news.altopia.com
- username: testnntp
- password: altnet1
Payment options:
- Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover
We commend Altopia for their support of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We too support the foundation's efforts to protect your rights online.
