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Hosting an irc Network is more work than you might think. Just a new domain name and a VPS with a service running on it might not be enough.
by unixhero 5y ago
Hosting an irc Network is more work than you might think. Just a new domain name and a VPS with a service running on it might not be enough.
- a1369209993 5y agoSupposedly[0] all the servers and other network infrastructure are intact, and it's solely the domain names (freenode.{org,net,com}) that were compromised. Grain of salt, obviously, but they have at least claimed there isn't a problem there. 0: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/df80d8d36cd9d1bde46ba018af497409 https://gist.github.com/joepie91/df80d8d36cd9d1bde46ba018af4...
- tinus_hn 5y agoSo what happened to the original service running on freenode.net? Is it down now?
- Arnavion 5y agoNothing. It's still up.
- a1369209993 5y ago(Again, supposedly) it's now running at libera.chat with superficial cosmetic changes. I haven't investigated this in any real depth though, so don't quote me on that.
- jhugo 5y agoFreenode is still up, at freenode.net, and libera is a new network, at libera.chat, operated by the former staff of Freenode.
- superkuh 5y ago>The server hardware is sponsored free of cost; we will occasionally receive an invoice for $0, but that's only because of how the accounting systems at some of our sponsors operate. I can't possibly imagine that the few freenode live conferences cost more than 50k; and all of the other miscellaneous expenses (like the renewal costs for the domain names) are well under a few hundred pounds per year. Anything he would have donated before Freenode Ltd's acquisition is unknown to me, but that would have been from the position of a benefactor, not a supposed owner. https://gist.github.com/aaronmdjones/1a9a93ded5b7d162c3f58bdd66b8f491 https://gist.github.com/aaronmdjones/1a9a93ded5b7d162c3f58bd...