That's what I run, too. The only time it died on me is when I updated and they had changed the configuration format to yaml (without an automated conversion). A

That's what I run, too. The only time it died on me is when I updated and they had changed the configuration format to yaml (without an automated conversion). Aside from that annoying hiccup, it's been very smooth sailing. It federates well (though I lost IM access to a lot of friends when Google killed gchat federation). The nice thing about running my own server is that when I talk to other people that have accounts there (basically my extended family and some selected friends), I'm pretty confident about privacy, even if OTR isn't being used—I only export SSL/TLS enabled ports and the machine is in my house, not a datacenter.