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• Host it yourself, but somewhere else Host it yourself, but somewhere else (Score: 1, Insightful) by bogibear on Wednesday March 12 2014, @11:24AM

  by bogibear (475) on Wednesday March 12 2014, @11:24AM (#15318)

  Hosting your own IRC gives you control and gives some options that we might not have with something like FreeNode. The outage from yesterday demonstrates the need to distribute the resources so that if the web site should go down, there is some chance of keeping IRC available.

  FWIW, DNS and the site should be on at least two geo-redundant servers. IRC is probably not as mission critical, however if you have an active / standby instance in the same geo-redundant sites, you could switch over easily.

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• Re:Host it yourself, but somewhere else Re:Host it yourself, but somewhere else (Score: 2) by wjwlsn on Wednesday March 12 2014, @01:20PM

  by wjwlsn (171) on Wednesday March 12 2014, @01:20PM (#15396) Homepage Journal

  But IRC was available during the site outage... or am I missing something here?

  (As soon as I couldn't reach the site, I went to chat.sylnt.us and watched as user after user connected and asked "is the site down?", in between random statements about bacon, cows, and poutine's karma.)

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  • Re:Host it yourself, but somewhere else (Score: 3, Informative) by xlefay on Wednesday March 12 2014, @01:45PM

    by xlefay (65) on Wednesday March 12 2014, @01:45PM (#15407) Journal

    Correct, _both_ IRC servers were still running.

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  • Re:Host it yourself, but somewhere else (Score: 0) by crutchy on Thursday March 13 2014, @08:23AM

    by crutchy (179) on Thursday March 13 2014, @08:23AM (#15816) Homepage Journal

    That would have been funny. I'm just sorry i missed out on all the fun.

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