Looking back at the downtime
December 25th, 2009 by Elmaron
The 16th December of 2009, Eloxoph was gone. Well, just happened and can't be changed. Still, this enlightens a bit the path where WeIRCd and the network will go:
The website can't be saved in such a case. But multiple chat servers that form together a bigger network are a wonderful way to provide more redundancy and substitute chatting places when the main server which hosts channel/nick registration services and website goes down. A website and NickServ/ChanServ downtime isn't nearly as bad as the complete chat being gone.
Therefore, this did pressure me again to jump back into server linking support for WeIRCd. I am going for the TS6 protocol, although ircd-ratbox and others of the mulitple IRCds that already support this protocol are probably not to be linked with WeIRCd as WeIRCd will extend the protocol to support halfop status. Maybe there will be a hack to link anyway, we'll see.
At the moment, work is still being done at the basic facilities: the config parser and a module api for linking modules, so basically any kind of linking (also to other services like messengers) will be possible through a plugged-in module. I hope to engange in the first linking tests in the close future though.