I've had similar success, probably over the course of 8 or so years. I've moved it from from machine to machine a few times, and generally haven't had any issu

I've had similar success, probably over the course of 8 or so years. I've moved it from from machine to machine a few times, and generally haven't had any issues with it. I've had to hack the source once or twice to work around various stupid things on my machine (for instance, my Kerb setup was very slow once, and I had to hack epam not to time out); the source is pretty reasonably maintainable. I've heard good things about Prosody, but haven't compared the two of them directly. It is said that ejabberd supports XEP-0136 (server-side message archiving), but since it's not a default (at least, I don't think), I haven't turned it on yet. One of these days I will give that a try.