Chat, again

IRC is right out for my board of directors (we can barely manage to use a mailing list properly; still, they want to try 'chat' meetings). I need something dead simple, low admin overhead, and that doesn't damage my intent to remain a model DH citizen. There would be no more than 21 of us. Voodoo Chat looks promising (at least it promises to be frugul with server load) but I don't really have a sense of what constitutes a large or small server load. From the about page:

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It uses Perl- or C++-daemon which processes users-requests to a messages list. And you need just one daemon for all clients. This daemon takes approx. 10 Mbytes of memory for 100 users. CPU usage is also small (of course it depends on your CPU, i.e. for 100 users online it is 0.5% of Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz).

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Would I be allowed to run a Perl daemon and is 10Mb a large or small amount of server memory to borrow for an hour or two once or twice a month?

I haven't had much luck with this sort of thing at all, getting them to let you run a daemon that is. I understand the reasoning behind it I s'pose but it sure would be nice to open up *something* for chat capabilities. I couldn't even get anything going web based for jabber and they were pretty hot for that when they first decided to support it.

There's a good business niche for you, chat hosting =)

jason

Feh...didn't like it as much in testing. Still looking for something practical without resorting to Yahoo.