Yes, that’s right… Due to me not being able to afford the excellent dedicated server that XMPP.is ran off of in the past I’ve had to make the switch to a cheaper and much more efficient scaleway.com ARM server. Since I did not utilize most the dedicated server’s resources I believe Prosody will run just fine on it. For the price this thing is well worth it.

Can we call XMPP.is “green” since we use an efficient ARM server 😀 ? I know there might be some concerns about privacy in France especially about all the controversy with anti-privacy laws being proposed/passed. I don’t think there is much of a risk, since no logs are being stored and the passwords are hashed. The most someone could get out of the server is who your buddies are. If you connect with Tor it makes it all-the-more confusing for people who wish to find your location. If something more serious like the server being setup as a honeypot I’m pretty sure I’d know about it. I am confident in my security practice.

Besides that, everything has been completely migrated to the new server and it should be functioning as it always has. If you have any questions or problems you can always contact me.

Enjoy!

It has come to my attention that people are unable to register with Tor Messenger due to a bug where the client doesn’t attempt to fetch the SRV records. This is currently listed as a bug report on their mailing list here: mail-archive.com/tor-bugs@lists.torproject.org/msg84732.html

Hopefully this is fixed soon but I have made a guide that contains a work-around for those who want to use Tor Messenger right now.

See that guide here: xmpp.is/docs/connect/tor-messenger/

XMPP.is is now running on a large Hetzner dedicated server. All data has been transferred to the new server and everything seems to be running smoothly. I decided to do this because of LeaseWeb’s big mess up with their storage platform in the Netherlands data center and I believe running on a dedicated platform will be more reliable and secure.

Here is a benchmark of the new server:

As I announced on XMPP a server switch was happening. I decided to do this because the old i3D server was too costly and for some odd reason it took 5 minutes for the server to come back up after every reboot. All data has been transferred over and we are now running on a LeaseWeb VPS with these specifications:

This should be more than enough as Prosody is very efficient and uses minimal resources. Also instead of the server hosting both the site and Prosody I have used SRV DNS records to allow the site to be hosted somewhere else while forwarding all XMPP queries to prosody.xmpp.is (port 5222 & 5269). This is much better because if the XMPP server goes down, updates can be posted on the site where there is no downtime. For fun here is the SRV records I used:

_xmpp-client._tcp.xmpp.is. 3600 IN SRV 10 5 5222 prosody.xmpp.is.
_xmpp-server._tcp.xmpp.is. 3600 IN SRV 10 5 5269 prosody.xmpp.is.

I also apologize very much for the downtime, I had a bit of trouble setting this up. But now that all is better, get back to chatting! 🙂

So while using CryptoStorm VPN I noticed that I would randomly disconnect anywhere from 5-30 minutes from XMPP servers including but not limited to XMPP.is. I have tested this with several other services and it happens on all of them while using CryptoStorm. In my case this has happened on their German, Iceland and US nodes. I am going to tell CryptoStorm about this, and from what I have noticed it only affects XMPP connections. Strange isn’t it?

So if you’re using CryptoStorm and you disconnect a lot, it is not our fault 🙂

Edit: CryptoStorm is aware of the issue and it has been ongoing.

@cryptoworld_is …to open a forum thread explaining how folks can help pin down exact params where it's observed – so we can fix it. Stat.

— ‍ ‍‍‍ᓭ cryptostorm ᓯ (@cryptostorm_is) July 21, 2015