shit happens. being able to contact someone when it does is important. i used to work for an isp and we had a private irc server that was very valuable in the

shit happens. being able to contact someone when it does is important. i used to work for an isp and we had a private irc server that was very valuable in the case of outages when we needed to broadcast information to other departments. if i had to deploy it again now i'd choose an xmpp server, but either way, relying on an off-network communication server is not a good idea for a variety of reasons.