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 i7-2600 Quad-Core
• 16 GB DDR3 RAM
• 2 x 3 TB SATA 6 Gb/s 7200 rpm HDDs (Software-RAID 1)
• 1000 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• jabb3r.de
  (full access to the transports and services of jabber.hot-chilli.net)
• jabb3r.org
  (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 (IPv4 connections only until upgrade to Prosody 0.9)
• server.jabber.hot-chilli.net:80 (for users behind restrictive firewalls, IPv4 connections only)

SSL client connections:

• jabber.hot-chilli.net:5223 (IPv4 connections only until upgrade to Prosody 0.9)
• server.jabber.hot-chilli.net:443 (for users behind restrictive firewalls, IPv4 connections only)

Transports, Gateways and Features

• AIM Transport
• Facebook Transport
• Gadu-Gadu Transport
• ICQ Transport
• IRC Transport
• Jabber Disk
• JMC (Jabber Mail Component)
• Message Archiving
• MSN Transport
• MUC (Multi-User Chat)
• MySpace Transport
• Neutron Jabber Bot
• Proxy65 (File Transfer Proxy)
• Pubsub / PEP (Publish-Subscribe / Personal Eventing via Pubsub)
• SIMPLE Transport
• SMS Gateway (aspsms-t)
• Twitter Transport
• Web Presence
• XMPP Transport (Jabber-to-Jabber, J2J)
• Yahoo! Transport