Posts Tagged ‘Domains’

DNS settings for Jabber hosting

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010, 16:48 by Roi

If you host your domain with another hosting provider and you want us to do Jabber hosting you have to set some DNS SRV and DNS CNAME entries into your DNS zone file. Many providers allow you to do that, if not, the provider has to do this for you.

(As an alternative you can deligate a subdomain, for example jabber.domain.tld, to our DNS servers and we take care of everything else. Your hosting provider must allow you to do this as well.)

Please set the following entries:

pubsub.domain.tld. IN CNAME jabber.hot-chilli.net.

webpresence.domain.tld. IN CNAME jabber.hot-chilli.net.

_xmpp-client._tcp.domain.tld. IN SRV 0 0 5222 jabber.hot-chilli.net.

_xmpp-server._tcp.domain.tld. IN SRV 0 0 5269 jabber.hot-chilli.net.

_xmpp-server._tcp.pubsub.domain.tld. IN SRV 0 0 5269 jabber.hot-chilli.net.

_xmpp-server._tcp.webpresence.domain.tld. IN SRV 0 0 5269 jabber.hot-chilli.net.

This is how it looks in BIND9 zone files. A web interface of your provider might look different, but the data you have to enter is mostly the same. If you have any problems, don’t hesitate and contact us.

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Moods now also work on secondary domains

Saturday, May 29th, 2010, 14:32 by Roi

We stumbled upon this by accident – moods (or to be precise: everything which Pubsub/PEP offer) did not work on secondary domains.

It works now, it was just a little configuration change. The Pubsub service subdomain (e.g. pubsub.jabber.hot-chilli.eu) has to be the same domain as the Jabber service (e.g. jabber.hot-chilli.eu), not a subdomain of the Jabber server’s primary domain (e.g. jabber.hot-chilli.net).

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New public domains added

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010, 07:28 by Roi

Last night we added two new public domains to the Jabber server:

  • jabber-hosting.de
  • xmpp-hosting.de

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Proper certificates for secondary domains

Monday, May 10th, 2010, 18:26 by Roi

To avoid login errors or messages and also to avoid certain problems with server-to-server connections we installed proper certificates for the secondary domains today.

We had to restart the Jabber services several times, sorry. The ejabberd config file isn’t commented very good, also Google didn’t tell us the correct settings in the first place. But everything works fine now.

PS: For old SSL connections to port 5223 there are no dynamic certificates. This just isn’t possible because of how SSL works.

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6 hour downtime…

Friday, May 7th, 2010, 09:01 by Roi

The Jabber server was just recovering from a 6 hour downtime on 9am CEST.

Sorry guys, there was a mistake in the config file due to adding a new Jabber domain to it.

We deeply apologize for the trouble caused.

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Jabber Hosting

Monday, April 26th, 2010, 01:20 by Roi

Own Jabber domains

We offer you the chance to run Jabber accounts with your own domain.

You could have identical address names for e-mail and Jabber, for example name@domain.tld. But you don’t have to. You could also run a subdomain like jabber.domain.tld if that fits your needs better.

Another benefit is, that you (and if you like and request it other users as well) get administrative rights for your domain on the Jabber server.

hot-chilli.net web hosting customers

If you are already our web hosting customer, the setup is really easy for you – because we take care of everything for you.

Please check the extra charge per month for your web hosting package on our web hosting page.

Web hosting customers of other providers

You host your domain with another hosting provider? No problem at all, we can do Jabber hosting for you as well. However your hosting provider must allow you to make DNS SRV and DNS CNAME entries for your domain or if you cannot do it yourself, the hosting provider must do this for you. As an alternative you can deligate a subdomain, for example jabber.domain.tld, to our DNS servers and we take care of everything else. Your hosting provider must allow you to do this as well.

For detailed information and support please see this page or contact us.

Costs and payment

  • Costs: 1 EUR per month (see how much 1 EUR is in your local currency by clicking here)
  • Invoice and billing: annually
  • Payment: money transfer to German bank account or Paypal (minor additional fees apply for Paypal payments)

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Server Specifications

Monday, April 26th, 2010, 00:09 by Roi

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).

Server hardware and server location

  • Intel Core i7-920
  • 8 GB DDR3 RAM
  • 2 x 750 GB SATA-II HDD (Software-RAID 1)
  • 100 Mbit Internet connection
  • Debian amd64

Location: Germany
Latitude/longitude: 49.09 N, 12.48 E

Domains

The following public XMPP domains are hosted here:

  • jabber.hot-chilli.net
    (all transports and services which we offer run on this domain)
  • jabber.hot-chilli.eu
    (full access to the transports and services of jabber.hot-chilli.net)
  • im.hot-chilli.net
    (full access to the transports and services of jabber.hot-chilli.net)
  • im.hot-chilli.eu
    (full access to the transports and services of jabber.hot-chilli.net)
  • hot-chilli.net
    (full access to the transports and services of jabber.hot-chilli.net)
  • hot-chilli.eu
    (full access to the transports and services of jabber.hot-chilli.net)
  • jabber-hosting.de
    (full access to the transports and services of jabber.hot-chilli.net)
  • xmpp-hosting.de
    (full access to the transports and services of jabber.hot-chilli.net)

Own Jabber domains

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.

Connections

“normal” client connections (STARTTLS/TLS):

  • jabber.hot-chilli.net:5222
  • server.jabber.hot-chilli.net:80 (for users behind restrictive firewalls, IPv4 connections only)

SSL client connections:

  • jabber.hot-chilli.net:5223
  • server.jabber.hot-chilli.net:443 (for users behind restrictive firewalls, IPv4 connections only)

unsecured client connections (PLAIN):

  • jabber.hot-chilli.net:5224

(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.)

Transports, Gateways and Features

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Virtual Jabber domain hosting

Monday, December 22nd, 2008, 21:00 by Roi

The switch to MySQL was used to test virtual hosts on the Jabber server which works really great.

Next to the primary domain jabber.hot-chilli.net this domain was added for public use:

  • jabber.hot-chilli.eu

Some time later two extra domains for public use were added:

  • hot-chilli.net
  • hot-chilli.eu

We also offer Jabber hosting for private domains.

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