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The unit retention is advertised in, counted backward from today to the oldest article a server still holds. The figure grows by one each day for an operator that has never expired anything, which is why published numbers climb steadily and why two providers founded years apart cannot be compared on this number alone. Text and binary counts are quoted separately.
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