Jabber/XMPP
In addition to the paid hosting services we provide, Foxy Banana Hosting also provides a public Jabber/XMPP server for anyone to use. While we encourage our customers to use it as well, the vast majority of our Jabber users are just average people from the Internet who are looking for a way to communicate with their friends and family. Our Jabber server can also communicate with users and chat rooms on other public Jabber servers with no restrictions.
If you feel the Jabber/XMPP service is useful to you, and you want to help us keep it going, please consider a donation. Donations made in this fashion are only for the continued operation and expansion of the Foxy Banana XMPP service, nothing more. This is entirely optional, and donations are NOT reqired for use of the service.
Please feel free to use our Jabber service. The server's details are as follows:
- Address: foxybanana.com
- Port: 5222 (plain-text and encrypted)
- Transports (Gateways to other networks):
You can use just about any client that supports the Jabber/XMPP protocol, so you aren't required to use just one or two specific applications. We've had great experiences with Psi, Spark, Adium, JBother, and MCabber. Operating system requirements vary from client to client. The server administrator uses MCabber as her chosen client. Most clients have an option to register a new account with the Jabber server of your choice, but, you can also set up an account on our server by using our web-based sign-up page.
In addition to the Jabber server, we also host a list of Jabber MUCs (Multi-User Conferences). The entries on this list have been added by the community, and may help you find groups of users with interests similar to your own. MUCs are basically like chat rooms, and can support a large number of users for group conversations.
If you want to create your own conference on the foxybanana.com servers, you can do so without any prior approval. If you'd like to make it a persistant room (one that hangs around even when nobody is in it), please contact us and we can make that happen.
Instructions for using the IRC Transport
Since IRC is a little bit different as far as messaging services go, it may be a little tricky to figure out how to use the IRC transport. First, you must register with the transport. It's going to ask for an IRC nick, a username and a password. The username and password is usually used on networks that support authenticating to the server as an alternative to authenticating with NickServ. This is how it works with Freenode.
Once you've registered with the transport, you should see an IRC transport item appear in your roster. You won't normally need to interact with this in any way unless you are logging into/out of IRC. To send messages to people on IRC, you'll address them like standard XMPP messages to userNick@irc.foxybanana.com. If you want to join an IRC channel, tell your client to join #channel@conference.irc.foxybanana.com. That's it!