How can you create a IRC server, I'm kinda a Noob and using windows
and Android so pls help
reddit / irc

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Rookier2 · 2019-03-08 07:45

So the title pretty much explains it, but let me elaborate I want to
create a Server, and don't know almost everything about IRC (cause I
recently began using them), so please, if you can help pls help.

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bysiffty · 2019-03-08 10:03

The base of everything will probably be sockets.

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frumious · 2019-03-08 11:39

Information theory.  Then electromagnetism.  Once these are understood
the IRC server basically runs itself.

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[deleted] · 2019-03-08 18:37

Go the easy route and use https://the-irc.com/

It's like five bucks a month, very reliable, and the support guys are
totally awesome.

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Jonno_FTW · 2019-03-08 23:50

What's wrong with making a channel on an existing network?

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Rookier2 · 2019-03-10 19:39

I didn't know you could, thanks!

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Saber_UK · 2019-03-11 09:54

Thats obscenely overpriced for what its actually giving you.

Also, their website seems to suggest that they use UnrealIRCd 3.2.8.1
which is unsupported now and is known to contain crash bugs so any
skiddiot could fuck over your server.

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theNomadicHacker42 · 2019-03-17 02:48

Yeah, i have to agree here. If you basically no nothing about IRC and
are trying to make a server on Windows...just don't.  Don't use
windows for a server...ever. For anything. Not even once. If you want
to learn how to do it for educational reasons, spin up a Vagrant
virtual machine using VirtualBox, or something, and run the latest
version of Ubuntu on it. Then install
[http://www.inspircd.org/](http://www.inspircd.org/) and its
dependencies. I've never set up an irc server, so I'm not sure of the
config process but this is probably a good start,
[https://wiki.inspircd.org/](https://wiki.inspircd.org/). Get it
running on your VM and get your irc client to connect to it locally
from your host machine. Then try to get the port forwarding correct to
be able to connect to it from anywhere on your LAN (ie. from a client
on your phone). Then play around with it...learn some stuff. \_THEN\_,
if you want to have an actual server out in the wild, find a hosting
company (I use DigitalOcean, but their droplets require a lot of
manual setup and almost nothing is managed by the hosting
company...which I prefer)...Namecheap is pretty cheap and simple and
does most everything for you.  Then install your server and
configuration onto the hosted server and tell your friends to connect
to it.

Or, if you just want you own topic...create a new channel on freenode.