at the risk of being helpful, Jon Teh delivered up the following on Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 03:40:11PM +1000, > 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. >
unfortunately DoS is a side effect of running an ircd. you end up making enemies mainly because of their own stupidity. it annoys me greatly that DoS attacks happen. and if ppl got nothing better to do than whipe out a shell provider just mostly because they can, then they had no business being there in the first place. however, this is all I'll say as it coule become a vicious circle lol. -- Shaun Oliver "Becareful of the toes u step on today, they maybe connected to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow!" EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 76958435 YAHOO: blindman01_2000 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: captain nemo 200 IRC: irc.awesomechat.net:6666 IRCNICK: blindman CHANNELS: #awesomeradio #mircpopup-magic #linux #help #ourworld #audiofile #mauisun -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
