VPS

my vps has cocks.
are you really setting up an irc server just for you and your friends?

>>61443599
Yes I am, figured it would be a fun way to learn a little more about irc.

>>61443373
I went AWS → DigitalOcean → Vultr over ~5 years or so?

AWS free instance is nice, but otherwise AWS is terribly overpriced unless you need other Amazon services to integrate with.

DigitalOcean has relatively good services and I didn't have any problems with DO at all.

I eventually moved to Vultr because Vultr allows custom ISOs and has more ram for the same price as DO. Don't trust Vultr's cheapest instances though, because they're always "sold out", but you won't know that until you'll try to spin up one.

Also, both DO and Vultr provide on-site backups that you CAN'T download, those are literally useless, don't pay for those, set up your own backups.

>>61445655
Okay, maybe not completely useless, because they're easy to re-deploy, but don't rely on them

>>61445655
Basically this.

I use a single Vultr instance as a webserver, IRC, SFTP host, VPN and seedbox for $2.50 a month, and I'm thinking about making it my own personal dnscrypt resolver, though currently the $2.50 instances are sold out.

>>61445655
>>61446018
Thanks for the info. I may end up switching to vultr as you recommended. I'm having some issue getting irc clients (outside of the aws instance) to recognize the server. For whatever reason, the public IP supplied by amazon is not working properly with the irc server. I'm also a noob at this, so I'm sure it's my fault.

>>61446191
Use UnrealIRCd, it's by far the easiest to setup, plus the default config file contains everything you need to know.

https://www.unrealircd.org/docs/Installing_from_source

Including reading everything the entire setup won't take you more than 15 minutes.

>>61446241
Thanks for the heads up. Yeah I was struggling with inspircd. I was able to get it compiled and installed properly, but for whatever reason it was giving me an error saying that the public ip I was supplying was incorrect. I did a fair amount of looking into it but came up empty.

>>61446191
You can use something like netstat or lsof to check if your irc server is listening to the expected ports on expected IP

Also you can usually supply 0.0.0.0 as an IP to listen on which means "listen on all interfaces"

>>61443373
What amazon AWS tier are you using?

>>61446406
That's the point where I gave up, I had told inspircd to listen to all ips and I was still having the same issue.
>>61446499
Free tier

>>61446527
I meant product type (AWS s3, EFS, cloudfront), not tier.

>>61446612
Gotcha, ec2