An IRC server is perfect for the Raspberry Pi as compared to most other servers, as it is not hugely performance draining on the Raspberry Pi’s

Raspberry Pi IRC Server: Setup your own Chat Network

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An IRC server is perfect for the Raspberry Pi as compared to most other servers, as it is not hugely performance draining on the Raspberry Pi’s limited resources.

IRC for those who don’t know stands for Internet Relay Chat, it is one of the oldest chat protocols and even though it has fallen in popularity in recent years it is still the backbone of many communities.

Even the popular streaming service, Twitch makes use of an IRC server to handle its chat. In fact, we use the IRC protocol to interact with Twitch’s Chat network in our Raspberry Pi Twitch Bot tutorial.

There are quite a few different servers that you can set up on a Raspberry Pi, and this is just one of them. If you like the idea of this, then be sure to check out some of our other server tutorials for the Raspberry Pi.

For this project, we will be utilizing Ircd-Hybrid as it is the most lightweight, high-performance and reliable IRC server that we have tested.

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