# IRC is Not Dead

URL: /show/self-hosted/13/
> Self-Hosted IRC solutions are better than ever. Alan Pope joins us to make a case for the classic way to communicate online and tells us about a modern client for the web, mobile, and desktop you run on your server.

- Show: [Self-Hosted](/show/self-hosted/)
- Episode: 13
- Date: 2020-02-27
- Hosts: alex, chris
- Guests: popey
- Duration: 00:38:13
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/7296e34a-2697-479a-adfb-ad32329dd0b0/1702bbe3-33e3-4455-ad97-6156b3216301.mp3
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/4hIOm4F8CGs





### Episode Links

  * [World's Worst Best Drone Retrieval Device - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42-Ti5ARX1I "World's Worst Best Drone Retrieval Device - YouTube") — Having some fun watching my local flying crew/friends use the World's Worst Best Drone Retrieval Device.
  * [You don't need a UI for docker containers](https://blog.ktz.me/p/080c5233-9ec2-4441-a72d-dbe5aa67fefd/ "You don't need a UI for docker containers") — You really don't. Managing small deployments of containers from the command line is easier, faster and 'commit-able'. We're not talking about vast fleets of containers here but in this article I'll cover how I use docker-compose to manage over 30 docker containers in a simple, scalable and faster way than if you were using a UI.
  * [awesome-selfhosted: A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted locally.](https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted "awesome-selfhosted: A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted locally.") — A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted locally. Selfhosting is the process of hosting and managing applications instead of renting from Software-as-a-Service providers
  * [Linux Server Image Status](https://fleet.linuxserver.io/ "Linux Server Image Status")
  * [Quasseldroid IRC Client](https://quasseldroid.info/ "Quasseldroid IRC Client") — Quassel makes IRC fun again – open a client anywhere, connect to your core, and have all your favourite channels and networks right there.
  * [The Lounge](https://thelounge.chat/ "The Lounge") — A web-based IRC client for the modern world! Once configured and started, users can access it from their browser or mobile device.
  * [Install theloungeirc for Linux using the Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/theloungeirc "Install theloungeirc for Linux using the Snap Store")
  * [IRCCloud](https://www.irccloud.com "IRCCloud")
  * [Self-Hosted Show Wiki](https://selfhostedshow.github.io/wiki/ "Self-Hosted Show Wiki") — Here you will find an open source, living and breathing repository of resources that we talk about on the Self Hosted podcast.