This outrage shows that modern solutions must be designed resiliently to enable service provisioning during incidents. There are multiple solutions to develop high-available and reliable services that ...

<p>The IRC server has been moved moved to a new host! The DNS changes that will point irc.arstechnica.com to the new server have already been made, and should trickle out to the rest of the Internet ...

IRC has no central server; instead, it links together a set of distributed servers in a mesh of sorts. This design was great in that networks could grow by adding more servers, but a breakdown in ...

How to get on IRC when your favorite server (probbably irc.kulish.com) doesn't seem to be up or have people. This is either due to Ancala messing with his box, or a problem in connecting to the rest ...

The big kerfuffle in the open source world this week surrounds the biggest IRC server operator, Freenode. Wherever the dust settles, myriad important open source projects use Freenode’s IRC servers ...

Internet Relay Chat, a mainstay of Internet chatting, can provide an easy and free way to communicate with employees and clients. IRC can be accessed through telnet without any additional software on ...

Although kids these days tend to hang out on so-called “Social Media”, Internet Relay Chat (IRC) was first, by decades. IRC is a real-time communication technology that allows people to socialize ...