Quote Originally Posted by TAfirehawk View Post
On the IRC topic. Yes we can host it ourselves as FDC just opened up that possibility recently. But for the small amount of money it is best to keep it off the servers that reboot far more often than our IRC host. If Chicago or Denver go down, and they often do for various reasons, then we lose IRC. In the grand scheme of things we need to be on multiple boxes instead of putting all our eggs in one basket.
Suppose you're right. Still the irc service is pretty shoddy for such a simple service :P But true, best spread the eggs around.