The Eloxoph IRC Network was founded by "Yarcanox" from Germany, running the network using the self-developed "Eloxoph IRC Server" software from a Windows home server in Switzerland; sponsored by the owner of xineroc.net. Whilst the server ran with few issues, if a problem arose, it was nearly impossible to catch the local operator. Then Grim joined the team from Australia, offering the chance to run the server from his home computer. As he was regularly online, he could be reached when there were any problems.

After some months, we discovered that home servers aren't as reliable and fast as we'd like them to be. It was again Grim who offered to organise a real server in a datacentre for us, and he finally got one, powered by aussiechat.org. The self-developed server software couldn't be run on it due to it not being a Windows machine, so since then we have been using Unreal with Anope.

After a long and good time on the aussiechat.org server, the server started to have serious issues and went down. The network had been down for a few months from this point on, and was then relaunched by Yarcanox with a self-rented server. It wasn't using Unreal and Anope anymore, but a new own developed ircd in C which runs on unix systems. Due to the fact that the network owner rented the server itself that time, the network is since then fully reliable and under the full control of the owner.

Some time, there have been problems with the own server software getting slow and crappy, but then it has been recoded nearly completely and is now reaching to new heights :-) - the programmer is currently working on server-to-server so we can use multiple servers on our network.

The network's homepage offers details on the development process and the temporary switch to InspIRCd for some months because of the mentioned problem back then if you want to read more on that events. You can also obtain our server software's source code, it's released under the conditions of the GPL license.