IRC Servers?

Are they allowed to run on the host?

I'm interested in starting a small private IRC server, I wasn't sure.

Thanks.

-vI-

From the DreamHost Terms of Service:

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Servers are shared with other customers, and as such IRC-related activities or severely CPU intensive CGI scripts (e.g. chat scripts, scripts which have bugs causing them to not close properly after being run, etc) are not encouraged. Any application that listens for inbound network connections (even if the application would otherwise be allowed) are not permitted. BitTorrent clients, proxy servers/scripts, IRC bots and bouncers (BNC) specifically may not be run on any DreamHost Web Hosting server. If your processes are adversely affecting server performance disproportionately DreamHost Web Hosting reserves the right to negotiate additional charges with the Customer and/or the discontinuation of the offending processes.

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From the DreamHost Wiki article on Persistent Processes:

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IRC-related persistent processes of any kind (including, but not limited to, bots, bouncers, etc.) are STRICTLY PROHIBITED

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So that would probably be a "no" then.

-- si-blog --

Ahh, that's right. I didn't think that the TOS mentioned specific services, I just thought it read "CPU intensive" services, and I wasn't sure that it would be CPU heavy. Thanks, maybe I'll host it on a personal server and just link a DNS to it.


-vI-

Is it my turn to suggest that you could run this on a Dreamhost PS account?

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