On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 03:01:25PM +1000, Shaun Oliver wrote: > personally I'd love to see more ircd hosting services around. > I don't see any under $30.00 per month and that's just us prices. > if I had the dollars and connection speed I'd host such services. >
Unfortunately, with the way IRC is, a hosting provider would be on crack to offer IRCD hosting for any less than that. Allowing an IRC server on your network is a massive risk, as they attract all sorts of stupidity such as DDOS attacks. It's quite common for DDOS attacks against an IRC server these days to be able to max out the 100Mbit/s ethernet link to the server box. You can see why hosting providers don't like hosting IRC. -- Jon Teh -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
