We just turned on a new bank of servers and are hoping to push 10-20 gigabits of test traffic this week. These servers have 200 days of articles, both binaries and text.
Please give us a hand by testing things out -
The server is:
stresstest.cheapernews.com
No username/password is required.
SSL is enabled and you should be able to make at least 20 connections per host.
Sorry, we don't support posting.
We may have a few few-minute outages during the course of the week as we try different server and/or load balancer configurations, but our plan is to keep the service up until and through July 4th.
Thanks for helping us out!
- Joe Riles -- Cheapernews Admin Team - --- Unlimited Usenet from $4/month! ---
Cheapernews Admin Team wrote: > We just turned on a new bank of servers and are hoping to push 10-20 > gigabits of test traffic this week. These servers have 200 days of > articles, both binaries and text.
> Please give us a hand by testing things out -
> The server is:
> stresstest.cheapernews.com
> No username/password is required.
> SSL is enabled and you should be able to make at least 20 connections > per host.
> Sorry, we don't support posting.
> We may have a few few-minute outages during the course of the week as > we try different server and/or load balancer configurations, but our plan > is to keep the service up until and through July 4th.
> Thanks for helping us out!
> - Joe Riles -- Cheapernews Admin Team - > --- Unlimited Usenet from $4/month! ---
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> We just turned on a new bank of servers and are hoping to push 10-20 > gigabits of test traffic this week. These servers have 200 days of > articles, both binaries and text.
> Please give us a hand by testing things out -
> The server is:
> stresstest.cheapernews.com
> No username/password is required.
> SSL is enabled and you should be able to make at least 20 connections > per host.
> Sorry, we don't support posting.
> We may have a few few-minute outages during the course of the week as > we try different server and/or load balancer configurations, but our plan > is to keep the service up until and through July 4th.
> Thanks for helping us out!
> - Joe Riles -- Cheapernews Admin Team - > --- Unlimited Usenet from $4/month! ---
I've set it up under Windows Mail on a 64-bit Vista SP2 computer. So far, it has allowed me to download the newsgroups list and the headers for two of the newsgroups I subscribed to, but few of the bodies of the messages.
trends.fido.diabetes uk.rec.birdwatching.
and so on.
It gives a few years worth of headers, but is rather slow at getting the bodies of the messages (apparantly only about a year's worth) ready to download.
"Robert Miles" <robertmi...@bellsouthNOSPAM.net> wrote in news:TUc2m.4981 $Uf1....@bignews2.bellsouth.net:
> It gives a few years worth of headers, but is rather slow at > getting the bodies of the messages (apparantly only about a > year's worth) ready to download.
Seems very unreliable. I know they said it may be down at times, but even when it's up, it's lousy. They are probably throttling downloads from free users, hoping that the paid ones make up the bandwidth they are hoping to get. Just another SPAM.
<support111...@cheapernews.com> wrote: >We just turned on a new bank of servers and are hoping to push 10-20 >gigabits of test traffic this week. These servers have 200 days of >articles, both binaries and text.
>Please give us a hand by testing things out -
>The server is:
>stresstest.cheapernews.com
>No username/password is required.
>SSL is enabled and you should be able to make at least 20 connections >per host.
>Sorry, we don't support posting.
>We may have a few few-minute outages during the course of the week as >we try different server and/or load balancer configurations, but our plan >is to keep the service up until and through July 4th.
>Thanks for helping us out!
>- Joe Riles -- Cheapernews Admin Team - >--- Unlimited Usenet from $4/month! ---
8 connections filled my 6meg DSL pipe. I grabbed a few things last night and today.
> "Robert Miles" <robertmi...@bellsouthNOSPAM.net> wrote in > news:TUc2m.4981 $Uf1....@bignews2.bellsouth.net:
>> It gives a few years worth of headers, but is rather slow at getting >> the bodies of the messages (apparantly only about a year's worth) ready >> to download.
> Seems very unreliable. I know they said it may be down at times, but > even when it's up, it's lousy. They are probably throttling downloads > from free users, hoping that the paid ones make up the bandwidth they > are hoping to get. Just another SPAM.
It might be that they are testing a server to get it working 100%, but I expect that everything you do works 100% from the word go.
Working fine here, just two connections fill 70% of my ADSL2+ using basic (non SSL) MSG-ID and GROUP cmds to start, pulling stuff at 50+ days.
I will test SSL later.
Cheers.
L_N
-- Imagine if there were no hypothetical situations...
> We just turned on a new bank of servers and are hoping to push 10-20 > gigabits of test traffic this week. These servers have 200 days of > articles, both binaries and text.
> Please give us a hand by testing things out -
> The server is:
> stresstest.cheapernews.com
> No username/password is required.
> SSL is enabled and you should be able to make at least 20 connections > per host.
> Sorry, we don't support posting.
> We may have a few few-minute outages during the course of the week as > we try different server and/or load balancer configurations, but our plan > is to keep the service up until and through July 4th.
> Thanks for helping us out!
> - Joe Riles -- Cheapernews Admin Team - > --- Unlimited Usenet from $4/month! ---
I just tried the combination of the Windows Mail newsreader and SSL. It failed on every newsgroup, with error messages such as:
Your 'alt.als' folder was not polled for its unread count. Account: 'stresstest.cheapernews.com', Server: 'stresstest.cheapernews.com', Protocol: NNTP, Port 563, Secure(SSL): Yes, Socket Error: 10061, Error Number: 0x800CCCOE
Header download for the 'alt.als' folder did not complete. Account: 'stresstest.cheapernews.com', Server: 'stresstest.cheapernews.com', Protocol: NNTP, Port 563, Secure(SSL): Yes, Socket Error: 10061, Error Number: 0x800CCCOE
All the other newsgroups failed with the same Socket Error and Error Number, including misc.support.diabetes, a newssgroup busy enough that it should have new messages every day. This happened both on binaries newsgroups and text-only newsgroups.
I then turned off SSL, and it let me download headers of messages, but few of the bodies before it stopped responding.
Note - I've seen signs that Windows Mail does not handle the combination of SSL, but no username and no password, well. Could you modify the server so that it allows the user to send a username and password, but then pays no attention to exactly what they were?
> We just turned on a new bank of servers and are hoping to push 10-20 > gigabits of test traffic this week. These servers have 200 days of > articles, both binaries and text.
> Please give us a hand by testing things out -
> The server is:
> stresstest.cheapernews.com
> No username/password is required.
> SSL is enabled and you should be able to make at least 20 connections > per host.
> Sorry, we don't support posting.
> We may have a few few-minute outages during the course of the week as > we try different server and/or load balancer configurations, but our plan > is to keep the service up until and through July 4th.
> Thanks for helping us out!
> - Joe Riles -- Cheapernews Admin Team - > --- Unlimited Usenet from $4/month! ---
When Windows Mail is used as the newsreader, the server offers a few years of headers for the XOVER downloads, but often stops responding before all of them are downloaded. Also, if any attempt is made to download the bodies of messages older than about 200 days, the server stops responding if in a binaries newsgroup, and is very slow to respond in a text-only newsgroup. As a result, the download is unlikely to complete successfully.
Windows Mail doesn't seem to offer any way to cancel download requests for which the server does not respond, so I haven't been able to tell it to restrict downloads to messages less than 200 days old. Attempts to download just one post at a time seem to work, but more slowly than on other servers, at least when the message is less than 200 days old.
It's not easy to test multiple connections using the Windows Mail newsreader - I've seen no sign that that newsreader offers any option to set how many connections are used, and it seems to use only one at a time.
> "Cheapernews Admin Team" <support111...@cheapernews.com> wrote in > message news:4a4825d2$0$13472$248ed10b@go.away.now... >> We just turned on a new bank of servers and are hoping to push 10-20 >> gigabits of test traffic this week. These servers have 200 days of >> articles, both binaries and text.
> It's not easy to test multiple connections using the Windows Mail > newsreader - I've seen no sign that that newsreader offers any option > to set how many connections are used, and it seems to use only one > at a time.
Solution: get a *real* newsreader. Windows mail and it's predecessor OE are crippled free software designed for little more than allowing someone to start using email once they have a computer. Academic for that server, but really, use something meant for usenet.
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