Key Features of DNews

• Take in full Usenet newsfeeds
• Use advanced dynamic sucking and header sucking to limit bandwidth use
• Supports 1-10,000+ concurrent users on a single server and scales easily
• Send out as many news feeds as your network will support with 'DFeed'
• Send and receive UDP / Broadcast / Satellite news feeds
• Authenticate via POP, Radius, Pam, LDAP, System files, External module or news specific database
• Comes with WEB - News interface
• Remote WEB admin tool
• Full technical manual available online and searchable
• Reliability, Ease of management and technical support when you need it.

News Server Software Performance - With Full News Feeds:

The DNews News Servers advanced database allows the DNews News server to handle news articles much faster and more efficiently than traditional Internet news server software.  This enables the DNews News server to take a full Internet news feed with ease and modest resources.  More importantly the DNews News Server Software has the performance to accommodate the higher news volumes expected if the current rapid growth in the volume of news continues for the next few years.

News Server Software Performance - With Suck News Feeds:

The DNews Dynamic Suck Feed option can provide enormous savings in Network bandwidth and disk space, while still delivering all the benefits of a full news feed.  Of the 20,000+ available Internet news groups, users will actively be reading only a fraction  of these groups at any time. This means that most of the disk space and bandwidth used in providing a full news feed is normally wasted on receiving and storing thousands of groups and messages that are not being read by anyone on your server at a given time. The DNews News Server Softwares unique Dynamic Sucking Feed option is able to save this waste of resources by dynamically monitoring and automatically reflecting users' changing reading habits in the groups that it is downloading and maintaining on your server.

Unique Header-Only Sucking Software: 

The  unique Header-Only sucking option allows you to supply binary news groups efficiently. The large message bodies are only  downloaded to your server when users actually select a specific article. This can save 90% of your bandwidth and disk space.

Built-In DFeed Feeds Software for sending Full News Feeds:

Built-in DFeed feeds technology allows the DNews News Server to pass on multiple full news feeds to downstream news server software with the efficiency and speed of a news router.

Built-In News Server to Web Server  Software - DNewsWeb -

DNewsWeb is a News to Web gateway which comes free with DNews. This allows you to make your local or public news groups easily accessible to anyone directly from your web pages.  The appearance can be easily tailored to match your existing web pages. Click here for details DNewsWeb can be used to provide a web based news service similar to the popular Deja News services for searching and reading and posting of articles.

Spam Protection Software - The DNews News server software uses a combination of leading-edge high-speed filtering and auto-detecting software that can cut spam in Internet news groups by up to 99% click here for details.

News server Software Efficiency - Because of the DNews News servers advanced design, with the same  resources, it will generally support several times more users per server than traditional NNTP news server software.  This means that you can support thousands of concurrent users on a single system, allowing for the future growth of your network, click here for details.

News Server Reliability - The DNews news server software is commercial-grade Internet news (Usenet) software. The DNews Software is designed to run unattended and uninterrupted to deliver a mission critical service.

News Server Installation and Administration - The DNews News server software is easy to install and manage. You can download and install DNews in just 10 - 30 minutes .

Advanced News Server Software Features - In addition to the full range of standard features, the DNews News server software provides an unmatched array of advanced and unique features including; Dynamic Feeds Option, News to Web and News to Mail Gateways, PGP Authentication, Live Feed technology, "Spam" filters....

Management GUI's

DNews includes a web-based management GUI and a Windows-based management GUI - DAdmin - which allow you to remotely manage almost all aspects of the news server.  See https://netwinsite.com/dnews/guis.htm for more information.

Internet Standards Support - The DNews News server is fully compatible with all standards-based news server and reader software.

News Server Support and Documentation - The DNews News server software is commercially supported on all major operating systems.

Y2000 Compliant Software

DNews News Server software has been modified to deal correctly with Y2K issues; for details see this page.

Upgrading from other  News Server Software:

Upgrading to The DNews News Server software can provide significant performance improvements and lower administration overheads. Actual benefits will depend on the software being upgraded from, and your specific circumstances.