So far I find setting up #inspircd a miserable experience in #debian Sid. It might be my fault.
Maybe my fault, but I'm documenting as I go along, because I believe this is a popular and trusted IRC daemon.
My previous experience was with ngircd, which I recall being very easy, but it's broken in Sid at the moment?
Does someone know the performance difference between a #matrix homeserver (say synapse) and and #irc server? IIRC Synapse recommends 4 CPUs and 8G of RAM. I tried on a small VPS with 4 cores and 1G RAM and it was unusable (even for a single user, because joining fairly big rooms was taking forever/crashing).
On the other hand, #inspircd recommends a 750MHz CPU and 300M of RAM.
Is IRC that much more efficient than Matrix?