{"id":1409,"date":"2015-06-20T10:35:57","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T14:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsgroupdirect.com\/blog?p=1409&#038;preview_id=1409"},"modified":"2015-06-20T10:35:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T14:35:57","slug":"celebrating-2500-days-of-retention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsgroupdirect.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/20\/celebrating-2500-days-of-retention\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating 2500 Days of Retention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve reached a huge milestone today by officially hitting 2500 days of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsgroupdirect.com\/help\/network-status.php\">usenet retention<\/a> in our binary newsgroups. 11 years ago, when NGD was just getting started, retention was commonly in the 14-24 day range. It&#8217;s hard to believe just how far we&#8217;ve come. Vastly improved hard drive technology and dwindling storage costs have made this monumental growth possible.<\/p>\n<p>2500 days of retention is a little hard to comprehend. That means that we haven&#8217;t deleted any articles because of storage space reasons in 6.85 years or 83 months.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the 2500 day milestone we&#8217;re having a weekend sale on unlimited usenet accounts. You can get unlimited usenet only for $75\/year or unlimited usenet plus Ghost Path VPN access for $111\/year.<\/p>\n<h3>How to Buy<\/h3>\n<p>Choose your plan below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsgroupdirect.com\/deal-of-the-week\">Unlimited Usenet for $75\/year (regular price $200\/year)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsgroupdirect.com\/unlimited-usenet\">Unlimited Usenet + VPN for $111\/year (regular price $249.95)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are a current block usenet customer and want to upgrade then please email support@newsgroupdirect.com and let our support team set everything up for you.<\/p>\n<h3>Stay in Touch<\/h3>\n<p>We have a couple of\u00a0mailing lists, depending on your interests. We won&#8217;t spam you.<\/p>\n<p>Join our <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/TBTuesday\">Terabyte Tuesday mailing list<\/a>\u00a0if you want to be the first to find out about Terabyte Tuesday and our other awesome promotions.<\/p>\n<p>Join our\u00a0<a href=\"bitly.com\/NGDHappyHour\">Happy Hour mailing list<\/a>\u00a0if you want to be notified about our lightning sales, where we offer a deep discount for a couple of hours, 3-4 times per month.<\/p>\n<h3>The Fine Print<\/h3>\n<p><em>The sale runs until 11:59\u00a0PM EDT on June 21. No sale prices will be honored after the sale expires. Current unlimited account subscribers aren&#8217;t eligible.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve reached a huge milestone today by officially hitting 2500 days of usenet retention in our binary newsgroups. 11 years ago, when NGD was just getting started, retention was commonly in the 14-24 day range. It&#8217;s hard to believe just how far we&#8217;ve come. Vastly improved hard drive technology and dwindling storage costs have made this monumental growth possible. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[83,101,99,9,184,131],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsgroupdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsgroupdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsgroupdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsgroupdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsgroupdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsgroupdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1412,"href":"https:\/\/newsgroupdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions\/1412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsgroupdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsgroupdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsgroupdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsgroupdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}