I know this is the norm for the hosting industry, but to anyone else, not being able to host a chat server (IRC) is blaming the victim. It is as ridiculous as

I know this is the norm for the hosting industry, but to anyone else, not being able to host a chat server (IRC) is blaming the victim. It is as ridiculous as banning airports because it attracts suicide bombers. The longer hosting companies put off developing a real solution to this problem, the more DDoS attacks are going to happen because they are so effective at getting servers kicked.