Due to an important security update and several improvements, our jabber service will be restarted on the 5th of June, 2011 at 11:00am (CEST). Sorry for the hopefully short unavailability.

We are sorry for the recent outages of our jabber service. They were caused by an abusive user who made lots and lots of connections to our server. It took some time to realize that it was the user and not a malfunction in our jabber server. Everything should be back to normal now! Apologies...

After a long period of testing the spectrum transports for xmpp, gadu-gadu, qq etc. we also replaced the old python based aim, icq and msn transports with spectrum instances. When we first started using spectrum it was showing very good performance but it crashed regularly. After months of hard work of the spectrum team, the transports seemed stable now for the past few months. No crash, no high cpu or memory usage and no disconnects from the services of which we know. Because of the many benefits of spectrum we decided to move all our XMPP transports from py-* transports to spectrum.

I am pleased to announce that our Jabber/XMPP user database has exceeded 200 users. We are happy to be able to provide such a service for anyone who likes to use it and we will continue working on it with our best knowledge. When there is more time we will try to write an introduction to jabber for those out there who don't know what it is or how to use it. We still see many users registering and not even logging in once - this is true mostly for users who register through this site and not through a Jabber/XMPP client.

Today  our jabber server was updated to the latest version of ejabberd (2.1.3). It includes many bugfixes(rather minor fixes) - but you may not have even noticed any problems with the previous version anyway. Still, we try to keep everything up to date for security reasons.

By the way, huge thanks to fsinf who contribute the best (imho) debian/ubuntu repository [ http://apt.fsinf.at ] for ejabberd, spectrum transport and some py-transports.

The server software was updated a few minutes ago. Everyting worked as expected and the server was back up after 5 minutes. If anyone experiences problems please report them here. You can leave anonymous comments but you will need to fill in a CAPTCHA then.

fosstux a.k.a. Christpher R. Parr was so kind to create a new logo for our site, BIG THANKS TO HIM!

Ok this was one day of testing spectrum transports. Everything except msn worked fine so I am leaving the new transports online. MSN transport was switched to pymsn-t again to keep everything as stable as possible!

I will keep this post short because its late. We have new transports, I have tested only msn and icq which work fine for me. The new transports use a lot less memory and are much faster than the old python transports. This should keep the server as fast as possible for everyone.
 
So right now we support the following transports for jabb3r.net and limun.org:

In a cloak-and-dagger operation I decided to register the domain jabb3r.net and added it to our limun.org jabber server. This site is a bit empty at the time of writing but a jabber information and news page should be started here.
Some short information about the jabb3r.net service: