Tom's IT CafeIt's simple. It's lightweight. IRC can run as a Tor hidden service for enhanced privacy.
#irc #inspircd #anope #tor #opsec #cybersecurity #privacy
http://tomsitcafe.com/2026/05/01/run-irc-as-a-tor-hidden-service/
IRC StatisticsNEW STATS: #IRC server software in use on the Internet (based on 4991 publicly accessible servers):
#UnrealIRCd 37%, #InspIRCd 22%, ngircd 9%, Hybrid 7%, Ergo 7% (+2% compared to last year). See details at https://ircstats.org
#UnrealIRCd 37%, #InspIRCd 22%, ngircd 9%, Hybrid 7%, Ergo 7% (+2% compared to last year). See details at https://ircstats.org
NEW STATS Dec-2024: #IRC Server software in use on the Internet (based on 5250+ publicly accessible servers):
#UnrealIRCd 38%, #InspIRCd 22%, ngircd 9%, Hybrid 7%, Ergo 5%. See details at https://ircstats.org.
#UnrealIRCd 38%, #InspIRCd 22%, ngircd 9%, Hybrid 7%, Ergo 5%. See details at https://ircstats.org.
someoddSo 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?
hexaheximalYou can actually use your own custom IRC server too! This is actually the only way to do it as of writing this since there is no librekit IRC server yet. I personally use #inspircd as the server software when testing the librekit chat client.
NEW STATS: #IRC Server software in use on the Internet (based on 5500+ publicly accessible servers):
#UnrealIRCd 38%, #InspIRCd 21%, ngircd 9%, Hybrid 8%. Ergo grows to 3.5%. See details at https://ircstats.org
#UnrealIRCd 38%, #InspIRCd 21%, ngircd 9%, Hybrid 8%. Ergo grows to 3.5%. See details at https://ircstats.org
davidochobits
Jonas VautherinDoes 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?