At my previous job we setup a internal company IRC server using InspIRCd [0]. We decided to host it on EC2 as well, and restricted access to it by putting the i

At my previous job we setup a internal company IRC server using InspIRCd [0]. We decided to host it on EC2 as well, and restricted access to it by putting the instance in our VPC [1] (only reachable over VPN). It became pretty popular and it was a great way to communicate between branch offices. [0] http://inspircd.github.com http://inspircd.github.com [1] http://aws.amazon.com/vpc/ http://aws.amazon.com/vpc/