Newshosting
- Free allowance
- None. Three paid plans; the 30-day money-back guarantee is the only risk-free route.
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- documented13 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
| Free tier | None. Three paid plans; the 30-day money-back guarantee is the only risk-free route. unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
The 6642-day retention figure is the vendor's own and is the same on all three plans; it is a property of the article store, not a quota. |
| Binding | none Lite's 50 GB/month is exhausted in under two hours at 1 TiB/month, so the plan choice is the binding decision. Unlimited removes the byte counter and leaves connection count as the only ceiling. |
| Identity | card Email and password at the signup control panel; card payment. No phone step described. |
| Egress | 'Monthly Usenet Data Unlimited' on the Unlimited and XL plans, 50 GB on Lite. No speed cap is stated; connections are 30 on Lite and 100 on the other two. free allowance: 50 GB/month on Lite only |
| Per-object cap | not applicable: a retrieval service, not stored bytes |
| Retention | '6642+ Days' of article retention on every plan (6642 days) |
| Interface | unknown Access is NNTP over TLS (port 563). The real interface is a standard protocol every usenet client speaks. |
| Tooling | Every usenet client: SABnzbd, NZBGet, nzbget-compatible downloaders, spotweb. No provider-side API is needed or offered. |
| Composes with | The Unlimited plan is the feed behind a debrid or *arr stack: 100 connections and 6642 days of retention are what make an old post still downloadable, and 'Unlimited Data' is the only uncapped byte path in this whole lane. |
| Reliability | No incident found in the pages read. The plan page publishes 'Regularly: $19.94/mo' struck through against the $12.95 charged, which is a promotional anchor rather than a reliability matter. |
| Notes | The charged price has not moved in 36 months; what changed is that the vendor began publishing a list price of $19.94 in 2025 that it then discounts to $12.95. The page does not say whether a renewal bills $12.95 or $19.94, and the honest reading is that $12.95 is the price as long as the promotion runs - so the exposure is 54% on renewal, not a discount a user can bank. This is the largest published promo-versus-list gap in the set after Eweka. A client that pulls older releases meets removal far more often than age. Cheapest Omicron entry seen on any of its storefronts was a 15-month promo at $1.99/mo quoted by a third-party deals page, not by the vendor, so it is not recorded as a price here. |
| Evidence note | documented Four dated reads, three archived. The $12.95 has not moved; the strike-through list price appears only from 2025. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 13
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | www.newshosting.com/usenet-plans/ | Lite $10.00/mo with 50 GB, Unlimited 'Regularly: $19.94/mo' struck through and '$12.95/mo' charged, XL PowerPack $15.83/mo, all with 6642+ days retention |
| 2023-10-03 | web.archive.org/web/20231003193527/https://www.newshosting.c | '$10.00 / mo' Lite, '$12.95 / mo' Unlimited and '$15.83 / mo' XL, with no list price shown |
| 2024-10-04 | web.archive.org/web/20241004075118/https://www.newshosting.c | the same three prices, still with no strike-through |
| 2025-10-02 | web.archive.org/web/20251002023508/https://www.newshosting.c | the same three prices with 'Regularly: ~$19.94/mo~' now struck through above the $12.95 |
| 2026-10-23 | support.newshosting.com/kb/article/1192-423-or-430-no-such-a | 'If your newsreader returns a "423 No Such Article" or "430 No Such Article" message ... the article may no longer be available on our servers'; retention 'adds one day ... every day' so 'no article ever expires from our servers due to time limits'. |
| 2026-10-23 | notes.debridmediamanager.com/providers/usenet/ | 'Retention is per provider. An article one server has aged out is very often still on another. Without a second account the only way to recover a dead article is PAR2 and that costs a read of the entire release.' Also that a second server is a second entry under the same nntp block. |
| 2026-10-23 | www.newshosting.com/usenet-plans/ | Lite $10.00/mo 50 GB 30 connections; Unlimited $12.95/mo against a $19.94 regular price, Unlimited data, 100 connections, 6642+ days |
| 2026-10-23 | support.newshosting.com/kb/article/1587-no-free-trial-but-a- | 'Newshosting does not currently offer a free trial.' |
| 2026-10-23 | support.newshosting.com/kb/article/96-do-unused-download-cre | Lite credits roll over to a 1 TB cap; Unlimited and XL have no data limit |
| 2026-11-03 | nzb.is/blog/dmca-vs-ntd-usenet-completion/ | not published |
| 2026-11-03 | support.newshosting.com/kb/article/1192-423-or-430-no-such-a | the vendor's article says a 423 or 430 No Such Article answer means the article may no longer be available on its servers |
| 2026-11-03 | support.newshosting.com/kb/article/1192-423-or-430-no-such-a | not published |
| 2026-11-03 | support.newshosting.com/kb/article/1192-423-or-430-no-such-a | the vendor's article gives an article older than its current retention as the first cause of a 423 or 430 answer |
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| price history | [{"date": "2023-10-03","price": "USD 12.95 / month","plan": "Unlimited","source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20231003193527/https://www.newshosting.com/usenet-plans/"},{"date": "2023-10-03","price": "USD 10.00 / month","plan": "Lite (50 GB)","source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20231003193527/https://www.newshosting.com/usenet-plans/"},{"date": "2024-10-04","price": "USD 12.95 / month","plan": "Unlimited","source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20241004075118/https://www.newshosting.com/usenet-plans/","change_pct": 0.0},{"date": "2025-10-02","price": "USD 12.95 / month (list USD 19.94)","plan": "Unlimited","source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20251002023508/https://www.newshosting.com/usenet-plans/","change_pct": 0.0},{"date": "2026-10-23","price": "USD 12.95 / month (list USD 19.94)","plan": "Unlimited","source_url": "https://www.newshosting.com/usenet-plans/","change_pct": 0.0},{"date": "2026-10-23","price": "USD 15.83 / month","plan": "XL PowerPack","source_url": "https://www.newshosting.com/usenet-plans/","change_pct": 0.0}] |
|---|---|
| change 36m | 0.0% on the charged price, 2023-10-03 to 2026-10-23 |
| promo gap | charged USD 12.95 against a published list of USD 19.94: the list is 54.0% higher than the charge |
| renewal price | not published; the page shows only the struck list price and the charged price |
| currency | USD |
| usenet | yes |
| failure angle | missing article |
| strongest signal | 430 No Such Article |
| account states | credential refusal is 481/482/502 at connect; the page read covers article-level states only |
| cache miss | not applicable: an article either exists on the spool or answers 430 |
| host removal | not applicable; the equivalent event is a backbone dropping a group or an article |
| backbone | Omicron (Highwinds Media), AS33438 |
| sister brands | ["Eweka","UsenetServer","Tweaknews","Newsgroup Ninja","Sunny Usenet","Astraweb","Easynews","PureUsenet","XLned"] |
| payment methods | not read |
Unknown values 1
- interface: the access interface was not established