Hi all,

I've been playing about with creating an IRC bot in Perl. Now I have something that sort of works, I'd like to deploy it.
Does anyone know of any free/cheap hosting that allows IRC bots to run? It turns out that Dreamhost doesn't

Thanks very much,
Ben

Have you spoken to SAS?

IIRC, he runs the site on his own server, so he might be happy to have the X404 IRC channel coming off the same server?

Aye, I'll shove him a PM in a bit

I've got a no IRC restriction in my data center.
However once my new data centre goes live in a couple of weeks I should be able to host whatever I like.

Saspro, if it's OK to host the bot on there that'd be great.

I've been running some tests and rewriting the bot to get memory and CPU down. Running on 32-bit Perl 5.10 the bot seems to require <15mb RAM and <0.5% CPU. It backs some stuff up to files, they are just plain text. On a busy day I've seen this rack up to ~1kb and the script will get rid of old data after 30 days, mainly to minimise memory and hard drive requirements.

I don't know what the best way to do it would be, the script needs Perl 5.10 or higher and a number of modules installed. I can email everything to you and email you updates when they come out if you like?

Ben

As soon as the hardware arrives for my new datacentre I can setup a server for it.
I'll have 24 physical cores + 24 ht cores & over 100GB RAM so it shouldn't be an issue for resources.

I'm guessing the best way forwards would be for me to set up the hardware & then get you to send me a list of OS requirements etc & I can let you set it up from there.

Sounds like a plan

OS wise, mostly any Linux that can run Perl should do and then the minimum hardware config to run the OS.