XS Usenet

xsusenet.com · Debrid · 2 records · JSON

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XS Usenet Debrid

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my.xsusenet.com/index.php?/knowledgebase/article/22/common-u · usenet provider (article spool, NNTP) · debrid/xs-usenet · JSON · compare

Sibling records disagree:

verdict: debrid/xs-usenet says qualifies, debrid/xsusenet says dead
identity_kind: debrid/xs-usenet says card, debrid/xsusenet says email

Free tier	No free tier in use: 'All of our premium packages support posting, but some servers are read-only (free.xsusenet.com is no longer in use).' unit none; metered on none; No price quoted; the pricing page was not read.
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	Not published; the unit is the article.
Retention	'Our retention is limited to 1100 days.' (1100 days)
Egress	Plan-based; the only ceiling named on the page read is the connection count. free_allowance: none
Identity	card Paid client-area account with email and card; usenet credentials are separate from the client-area login, which the KB calls out explicitly.
Limits	retention-clamped 1100 days; older articles answer 423 or 430 source request-rate 'Too Many Connections' is a named refusal; the plan's connection count is the ceiling source write-gated posting is allowed on premium packages and refused with '440 Posting Not Allowed' where it is not source This is the only provider in the set whose documentation lists the connection-level refusals next to the article-level ones, which is what a client needs to tell 'wrong password' from 'article gone'.
Binding	retention-clamped At 1100 days the spool is the shortest published retention here, so a client pulling older releases meets 430 far more often than a connection or byte limit.
Interface	nntp NNTP reader, standard commands; the page lists the full refusal set a client meets at connect and at article fetch.
Tooling	SABnzbd, NZBGet, zurg's nzb provider
Composes with	A shorter-retention spool is the wrong primary for a 1 TiB/month archive and the right fill for recent content; 1100 days is the only day count among the providers in this set that publishes one.
Reliability	Nothing past 1100 days exists on this spool; the KB warns that client-area credentials are not usenet credentials, which is a common first-hour failure; a 503 is an overload rather than a credential problem.
Notes	Candidates for the first failure: the connection cap, the 1100-day wall, or the credential split between client area and NNTP. The credential split is the one that breaks a first-hour setup; the 1100-day wall is the one that breaks an archive pull. Both are documented.
Evidence rung	documented Every string and the retention figure are the vendor's own knowledge-base page. No probe was run.
Checked	2026-10-24 (live); stale on 2026-11-23

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-23	my.xsusenet.com/index.php?/knowledgebase/article/22/common-u	The refusal set: '502 Authentication Error / 482 Invalid username or password'; '440 Posting Not Allowed'; '480 Authentication Required'; '423 Bad Article Number or 430 No Such Article Found' with 'Our retention is limited to 1100 days'; '503 Service Unavailable ... possibly due to maintenance or overload'; 'Too Many Connections'. Also 'Your email address and password for our client area are NOT your Usenet credentials.'
2026-10-23	notes.debridmediamanager.com/providers/usenet/	Connection-count sizing: 'Set connections to what your plan actually allows ... Going over what the plan permits gets connections refused.'

More fields (5)

{
 "failure_angle": "credential split and a published retention wall",
 "strongest_signal": "482/502 at connect, 430 at fetch",
 "account_states": "482 invalid credentials or expired account ('ensure your account is still active and hasn't expired'); 480 auth required; 503 service unavailable; 440 posting refused",
 "cache_miss": "not applicable",
 "host_removal": "not applicable"
}

XS Usenet Debrid

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xsusenet.com/ · usenet provider (Abavia reseller) - dead · debrid/xsusenet · JSON · compare

Sibling records disagree:

verdict: debrid/xs-usenet says qualifies, debrid/xsusenet says dead
identity_kind: debrid/xs-usenet says card, debrid/xsusenet says email

Free tier	The service is shut down. 'XS Usenet has shut down - but your Usenet service continues without interruption. All accounts have been moved to EasyUsenet.' The website and ordering system are closed. unit none; metered on none
Price	n/a
Per-object cap	no per-object cap is published; the unit of retrieval is a Usenet article, ~750 KB by convention, so a 1 TiB month is roughly 1.4 million article fetches
Retention	Not applicable: no new accounts are sold. Existing accounts keep their expiry date on the EasyUsenet infrastructure.
Egress	Not applicable; the ordering system is closed
Identity	email Registration is closed. Existing credentials were migrated unchanged to reader.easyusenet.com.
Binding	none Nothing binds because nothing is sold. A reader who needs this capacity must go to EasyUsenet, which inherited the accounts.
Interface	nntp NNTP over TLS on port 563; no HTTP or object API exists for the download path, so the client drives it through SABnzbd, NZBGet or nzbdav
Tooling	SABnzbd, NZBGet or nzbdav over NNTP/TLS; any newsreader works because the protocol is the same everywhere, and no provider SDK is needed
Composes with	Nothing composes: the capacity moved to EasyUsenet, which is the Abavia brand a client should price instead.
Reliability	Shut down after 15 years, citing staff shortages; accounts moved to EasyUsenet with the same username and password and a new hostname. The VPN product was suspended and set to close on August 31, with refunds for unused time.
Notes	The interesting part is the epitaph: the first freemium Usenet provider in 2009 is gone in 2026, and its free-tier model went with it. That is the direction of travel's main question.
Evidence rung	documented The shutdown notice is the vendor's own page, read today. The fetch reported no upstream status, so the page content is the evidence rather than an HTTP code.
Checked	2026-10-24 (live); stale on 2026-11-23

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-23	xsusenet.com/	'XS Usenet has shut down'; 'All accounts have been moved to EasyUsenet'; new server reader.easyusenet.com; 'Since starting in 2009 as the first freemium Usenet provider'
2026-10-23	www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/providers	Xsusenet listed as an Abavia reseller with 'soft limits (5tb per month) ... above 5TB speed will be capped to 40Mbit'

More fields (3)

{
 "backbone": "Abavia",
 "successor": "EasyUsenet (reader.easyusenet.com)",
 "lifetime": "2009-2026"
}