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Offshore Hosting for an IRC Network Server
IRC remains the canonical real-time chat protocol for many open source communities, hacker groups, and old-school online communities. Hosting an IRC server (or a node in a linked network) on an offshore VPS gives the community resilience and operational autonomy. This page covers IRC server hosting on Anubiz.
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Server choices
UnrealIRCd: the classic feature-rich choice, widely deployed. InspIRCd: modular and modern. Ergo (formerly Oragono): all-in-one Go server with built-in services. For a small community, Ergo's all-in-one simplicity is attractive. For network linking and traditional services (NickServ, ChanServ), UnrealIRCd or InspIRCd with Anope or Atheme services.
Sizing
IRC is extremely light. A small community with 200 active users runs on 1 vCPU 2 GB RAM 40 GB. Larger networks with multiple linked nodes need slightly more, mostly for logging. The Anubiz entry VPS is more than enough for most cases.
Anubiz binding
Anubiz offshore VPS plans from $17.90/mo. Crypto payment, no KYC. Internal links: /en/anonymous-vps, /en/hosting-for-xmpp-jabber-server-offshore, /en/hosting-for-matrix-homeserver-offshore.
Modern IRC reality
IRC use has declined relative to Matrix and Discord but remains substantial in technical communities. Modern IRC supports TLS, SASL authentication, IRCv3 capabilities (message tags, history replay, account-tag). A well-configured modern IRC network is competitive with the alternatives for technical user bases.
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Why Anubiz Host
100% async — no calls, no meetings
Delivered in days, not weeks
Full documentation included
Production-grade from day one
Security-first approach
Post-delivery support included
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