For ages, I ran unrealircd [1] and anope [2] services. One could put TheLounge [3] (web front end with redis) in front of it for persistence. Not as easy as i

For ages, I ran unrealircd [1] and anope [2] services. One could put TheLounge [3] (web front end with redis) in front of it for persistence. Not as easy as inspire to set up, but rock solid and feature rich. [1] - https://www.unrealircd.org/ https://www.unrealircd.org/ [2] - https://www.anope.org/ https://www.anope.org/ [3] - https://thelounge.chat/ https://thelounge.chat/