Good news everyone!
The latest InspIRCd for your enjoyment is out! We’re sorry about the delay in announcement but our site maintainer was busy with RL and all that boring stuff. On a positive note, yours truly is now also a maintainer of the site and thusly you can also spam me with any site related issues.
A detailed changelog since last release will be attached as always.
Archive for category Linux
Inspircd released 2.0
Jul 7
Recently, the Linux version of UnrealIRCd was discovered to have had a Trojan worm its way into the source code. Even more embarrassing for the developers of Unreal is that the Trojan’s been holding open the backdoor in the source code since November of 2009– not very recently. And, of course, bloggers and press in general are taking the opportunity of another breach in Linux security to point out doomsday devices that don’t really exist.
http://www.osnews.com/story/23448/Linux_IRC_Server_Gets_Trojan_Press_Harps_On_Linux_Security
I was surfing in WHT this morning and just found that InstaVPS just had another build of blade server with lowest price I have ever met.
Here is the blade server’s spec:
P3 800MHZ Blade Server
40GB Hard Drive
512MB RAM
100GB BW
1 IP
$14.99 / Month $0.00 / Setup
It’s good for low budge people and want to test their development software. Here is the link in WHT:
Are you looking for low cost blade server? I guess InstaVPS is a good place to consider. We just made an order of one blade server with at low cost starting from 20usd/month.
The server spec:
* 60 GB Disk Space
* 500 GB Bandwidth/ 2 IPs
* PM 1.0 GHZ
* 1 GB RAM
* Choice Of OS
* Free Setup
The port speed is 10Mbits (100Mbits is upgradable with 5usd/month extra). They also accept IRCD stuffs.
lightIRC is a free Flash IRC client that includes all well known IRC features.
It supports stylesheets for it’s own skins, has support for multiple languages, and can be used with every IRCd.
lightIRC supports channels, queries, a lot of IRC commands, some CTCP commands and is much customizable through StyleSheets. It has multi language support (currently English, Spanish, German, Turkish, Hungarian, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Serbian, Estonian, Romanian) and a nice GUI to set kicks, bans and channel modes.
The client uses a socket to connect directly to the IRC server (no XMLSocket, no gateway).
You need flash policy server running at IRCD’s host. Otherwise the lightIRC client can not connect to your IRCD. Here is a link of how to setup a socket policy server: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/socket_policy_files.html
I have one VPS with DMEhosting for about almost a half year already. Recently, I just got an announcement that they allow IRC related stuffs in their unmanaged VPS. That’s great!
They have very cheap unmanaged linux vps plan which I never found any before. They named their unmanaged VPS to Budget VPS now. Here is the cheapest plan:
- Disk Space: 20GB
- Memory: 256MB
- Burst Memory: 386MB
- Bandwidth: 700GB
- Virtualization: OpenVZ
- IP Address(es): 1
Just $5.95/month
The setup is instant activation after the invoice is paid. You might also find they have 50% promotion in webhostingtalk. Nowadays, I use this budget VPS for backup and a tiny IRC node to my friend’s network.
Today, I just found one free shell on the net. Its name is Bshellz. You can get your linux account up instantly. They currently have two type of account – standard user and elite user. Simply visit their IRC channel in freenode (irc://#bshellz@irc.freenode.org), and type !register. I got my account created in less than 5mn.
Here are what you will get:
- SSH / SFTP
- File space 50MB for standard users
- File space 500MB for elite users
- cron
- screen
- IPV4/6
Development/Scripting
- GNU tools, gcc, g++, make, etc…
- Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby, Bash
- Subversion
Web Devel/Hosting
- Apache Server (SSL)
- PHP
- Perl
- MYSQL
- Python
- Mono
- phpMyAdmin
Chat / IRC
- Irssi
- (FiSH, OTR, SILC, XMPP)
- finch / pidgin
- centerim
- ekg
- BitchX
- Bitlbee server (MSN, ICQ, YAHOO, etc…)
- Jabber
- psybnc/bnc/eggdrop/bots etc… ONLY for elite users.
- pine
- mutt
- IMAP access (SSL)
- SMTP access (SSL)
Web
- lynx
- links
- elinks
- Tor
- I2P
Editors
- vim
- pico
- joe
- nano
- emacs
Their website: http://www.bshellz.net. One important note is: you _MUST_ every 168 hours visit their channel #bshellz on Freenode Network, and say !keep username.
you _MUST_ every 168 hours visit our channel #bshellz on Freenode Network, and say !keep
Free IRC Bouncer is online again after it was dead for a while. You can get it for free easily at Free IRC Bouncer Section, but do not forget to read FAQ and RULE. Everyone can get it.
The bouncer software is shroudbnc. It’s easy to use compared with psybnc which is more advanced. Enjoy!
Ever think about to run your own IRCD? I guess the irc addicted people might think to run by their own because they can be netadmin and set everything such as rules and network structure.
If you are really new to IRCD setup, I guess you would choose IRCD account instead of IRC-enabled VPS. From my experince, VPS is the better choice. Here are some of my opinion why VPS is better than IRCD account:
- You have root access
- You can install what application you want if it’s allowed in provider’s TOS
- You might be able to run as many process as you want, it depends on your VPS memory
- Setup your own webserver, mysql and other application you want bla bla.. even it has only 64MB RAM
If you could not find any cheap provider, I can give you a list that I ever had vps with them quite some time before:
- http://www.linode.com, i rate it 9/10 for performance, uptime and customer support
- http://www.minivds.com, i rate it 5/10 for performance and 6 for uptime and customer support
- http://www.hostinginside.com, i rate it 6/10 for performance, uptime and customer support
- http://www.rapidswitch.com, i rate it 8/10 for performance, uptime and customer support
Some VPS which you can run IRC things too are:
There are plenty much more in the internet. Just google it, you will find tons of it listed. You can also find some low price vps in: http://www.lowendbox.com/ but not all provider allow you to run IRC related stuff.
