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The Hot-Chilli Instant Messaging service is a node on the open Jabber network, based on XMPP, the open standard for instant messaging. The IM service is registered on the xmpp.org website and thus fulfills the requirements to be listed.
The usage of our IM services is completely free of charge (exept if you like to run your own domains on our server).
Location: Germany
Latitude/longitude: 49.09 N, 12.48 E
The following public XMPP domains are hosted here:
You can host your own domain (with admin access and full access to the transports and services of jabber.hot-chilli.net) on our Jabber server. This is even possible without moving your domain from your current provider to us, you just need to setup three DNS entries to point Jabber services for your domain to our server. See here for more information.
“normal” client connections (STARTTLS/TLS):
SSL client connections:
unsecured client connections (PLAIN):
(Not recommended, because password is transfered in plain text. Unfortunally there are some clients like phpBB3 which still do not support the 4 year old XMPP1.0 connection protocol to port 5222.)
ICQ, MSN, AIM, Yahoo! and J2J (XMPP) transports were migrated to Spectrum transports yesterday evening and night.
After accidentally stumbled upon Spectrum (thanks to Flo!) I started the migration right away. The old PyXXXt transports were a huge pain long enough (PyMSNt for example created 800GB of traffic each month, alltogether the PyXXXt transports used 90% CPU when running a certain amount of time – which is the reason why we restart the Jabber related services every night) so I was very happy to see a young and well looked after project which really works a lot better. I’m quite enthusiastic at the moment. 
All users and settings were migrated without problems, so maybe you haven’t even noticed that something has changed on the server.
The Gadu-Gadu (GG) Transport will also migrated to Spectrum, but I haven’t managed the migration of the user data yet.
ICQ Transport users please note, that charset was set to ISO-8859-15 – which should be a good choice for European users (German umlauts, other special characters etc). If you experience problems, please change the charset (to utf8 for example) of your ICQ Transport account by clicking on “Register” in the context menu of icq.jabber.hot-chilli.net. You can find this in the Jabber service discovery.
AIM Transport users please note, that the new AIM transport service seems to be a little unstable right now and has to be restarted from time to time. I will take a closer look in the next days.
J2J (XMPP) Transport users please note, that it was not possible to migrate the remote roster data to the new transport service. But as I noticed the remote roster is downloaded during the first connect.
Until now I cannot say if the nightly restart of the Jabber services at 3am CET/CEST is still necessary. The next days or weeks will tell. Stay tuned.
If you should experience problems with the new transport services please contact us in support@conference.jabber.hot-chilli.net.
jabber.hot-chilli.net went online as a public Jabber service on March 19th, 2005 on jabberd 1.x with ICQ, AIM and Yahoo! transports.
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