[AC-Admins] [Admins] AnthroChat Server application - wolf

[Harik A'ttar]

On 02/21/2011 12:59 PM, Pippin Bear wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:42:02AM -0600, Cheetah wrote:
>> - Judging from xzibition's page, it looks like a turnkey package with
>> very little actual influence on the machine.
>> - What package is he buying?  What is the motivation?
>>
>> I'm not particularly happy with the 'buy one's way' into the network,
>> regardless of how nice someone may or may not be.  In addition, the
>> hosting solution is too much a black box.
>
> This pretty much exactly matches what I felt when looking at xzibition's
> page, although I didn't know how to put it into words.

In addition, what IRCd version will they use at any given time, what 
patches will they apply for security, how fast will they do so?

I understand people buying vhosting for their IRCd - it's become the 
sane thing to do.   Someone else handles the underlying hardware and 
it's usually a slice off a RAID backend presented to you as a single 
drive.   Buying just an ircd that someone else runs?  I don't think so.

This sounds like a service setup for 'clans' or private forums or 
something, not part of a serious network.

Speaking of hub-vs-leaf, we do need to mark links such as our .au 
server as leaf-only to prevent it from ever having two connections, 
bouncing through that undersea cable twice is ridiculous.