That said, almost every (cheap) server hoster will have something in their TOS forbidding IRC use. I have no particular insight into why IRC is so troubling, i

That said, almost every (cheap) server hoster will have something in their TOS forbidding IRC use. I have no particular insight into why IRC is so troubling, it used to be popular for malware botnets (C&C) and it attracts its fair share of script kiddies.