Welcome to InspIRCd. The first revolution in IRC development since 1989.

InspIRCd is a highly configurable, highly extensible, high performance IRCd (IRC server) written for modern needs by modern programmers in C++ to cater for the next generation of IRC usage.

Featuring:

• Fast, object oriented code
• Extensible, modern design
• Active, responsive, community oriented developers
• Free, non-blocking SQL integration support (SQL authentication, SQL logging, SQL opers, etc) supporting the following databases:
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • SQLite
• Hot-patchable commands, modes, SSL support, ziplinks support, SQL support... NO restarts
• Modern, high performance socket engines, such as kqueue and epoll, allowing InspIRCd to hold many thousands of users easily
• Small install footprint
• Client and server to server SSL support, including certificate auth for oper up
• Server to server ziplinks support
• DNS blacklist (DNSBL) support
• Lots and lots of useful and detailed documentation!
• Native support for Linux, FreeBSD, Windows and more!

And lots more. If you've never used InspIRCd before, then now is the time! The ultimate 1.1 release is here, and it's better than ever. If you've used InspIRCd in the past, and have been disappointed, give 1.1 a try, and if you're still disappointed, let us know why, and we will do our best to help you.

InspIRCd is at this juncture ready to take over networks large and small and power your chat into the future and beyond.