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Re:Shout: The self-hosted web IRC client by goldbrick on Monday February 01, 2016 @05:02PM (#11015884)
Lots of them in fact, when you consider logging to disk.
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Re:Shout: The self-hosted web IRC client by duaneb on Monday February 01, 2016 @05:05PM (#11015905)
...and I sincerely hope you are using log rotation or your server will eventually become useless, too.
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Re:Shout: The self-hosted web IRC client by xena on Monday February 01, 2016 @05:53PM (#11016290)
I have 4 years of IRC logs in about 4 GB of uncompressed text. YMMV but IRC is not bandwidth or disk-intensive.
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Re:Shout: The self-hosted web IRC client by duaneb on Monday February 01, 2016 @06:13PM (#11016423)
Sure. It would also be a pretty shitty server if it crashed because nobody had the forethought to realize history uses memory. 4GB of memory will always be enough....
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