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Ah. Of those, I've used Linode and OVH. Neither ever gave me grief for having IRC, but I also ensured that I never had botnets connecting to me, which is what
by LinuxBender 7y ago
Ah. Of those, I've used Linode and OVH. Neither ever gave me grief for having IRC, but I also ensured that I never had botnets connecting to me, which is what most of them don't like dealing with. I've never tried 1and1, Hetzner (ive heard good things about them), HostGator or Liquidweb.
I am certain that Linode won't give you any grief as long as you make some effort to keep botnets from abusing your service.
- adar 7y agoI think they might no longer do this but for many years Linode's Atlanta location blocked access to IRC-specific ports, I believe because of a specific policy by their Atlanta datacenter.
- 1rdaniels 7y agoLinode Employee here: I've personally checked with our Network Operations team, and ran a test with a teammate. We do not currently block IRC ports.
- ryanlol 7y ago>I never had botnets connecting to me, which is what most of them don't like dealing with. It’s the DDoS attacks they didn’t like dealing with, but I suppose that’s one way of describing it.
- LinuxBender 7y agoYeah both really. The botnets usually act as C&C for tools that create outbound DDoS attacks and exfil user data. They also create jump-off proxy points to mask their location. IRC is a very handy way to control large numbers of attack bots.