UsenetServer
- Free allowance
- No free tier; a paid usenet account.
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- documented5 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-23checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-23
| Free tier | No free tier; a paid usenet account. unit none; metered on none; No price is quoted because the pricing page was not read. |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
The vendor points at indexers as the amplifier: 'Many Indexers maintain references to articles long after they've been removed from Usenet servers', so the NZB can be valid and the articles still gone. |
| Binding | none Unlimited bytes; the first failure is a per-article 430/423 whose frequency is set by the indexer's freshness and the spool's retention. |
| Identity | card Paid account with email and card. No identity document described. |
| Egress | Unmetered on an unlimited plan; article availability binds before bytes. free allowance: none |
| Per-object cap | Not published; the unit is the article. |
| Retention | 'UsenetServer offers one of the highest article retention times available'; no day count on the page read. |
| Interface | nntp NNTP reader, TLS; standard article commands. |
| Tooling | SABnzbd, NZBGet, zurg's nzb provider |
| Composes with | The clearest documented split between the two article codes: 423 means the group is there and the article is not, 430 means the article is unavailable while the group remains readable, which is what a script can branch on. |
| Reliability | An indexer can point at articles the spool no longer holds; each such article is a per-file failure and only PAR2 or a second provider recovers it. |
| Notes | The vendor gives a number for none of them; the useful part of this page is the 423/430 split, which lets a client distinguish a missing group from a missing article. A vendor KB article says article access is unrestricted and uncapped; that is the only statement about volume on the site. |
| Evidence note | documented The 423/430 distinction and the indexer behaviour are the vendor's own. No removal-by-notice cause is named on this page, which differs from Newshosting's page in the same group. |
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Evidence 5
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | support.usenetserver.com/kb/article/193-i-received-a-423-no- | '423 No Such Article: The server acknowledges the group exists, but the article requested is not present. 430 No Such Article: The article is not available on the server, even though the newsgroup is accessible.' And 'Many Indexers maintain references to articles long after they've been removed from Usenet servers.' |
| 2026-10-23 | notes.debridmediamanager.com/providers/usenet/ | Second server behaviour: a backup account is only asked after every primary has answered no such article; a second server turns a whole-release PAR2 read into one article fetch. |
| 2026-10-23 | www.usenetserver.com/pricing/ | $14.95 1 month 20 connections; $8.95 3 months; $7.95 12 months billed $95.40 with 50 connections and US+EU; 6642 days |
| 2026-10-23 | support.usenetserver.com/kb/article/176-how-much-does-the-se | The same vendor's KB quotes $16.95 1 month, $8.95 exclusive and $7.95 12-month, and 'up to 20 SSL-encrypted connections' - a stale page |
| 2026-10-23 | support.usenetserver.com/kb/article/183-are-there-any-limits | 'UsenetServer does not impose restrictions on the number of articles accessed by users.' |
More fields 7
| failure angle | missing article |
|---|---|
| strongest signal | 430 (article absent) vs 423 (article number absent in a known group) |
| account states | article-level states only on the page read |
| cache miss | not applicable |
| host removal | not applicable |
| backbone | Omicron (Highwinds Media), AS33438 |
| conflict | support KB 176 vs /pricing/ on price and connections |