[Adium-devl] Adium iPhone

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Andreas Monitzer wrote:
> On Jan 22, 2009, at 19:48, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
> 
>> Seems like a lot of 'givens'... a fully serverside connectivity
>> solution just seems cleaner and more reliable.  You mention that there
>> are problems with serverside solutions that phoning home would
>> overcome? Could you expand on that a little bit?
> 
> Mostly the load and bandwidth... adiumx.com wouldn't be able to handle a
> million users chatting away on multiple accounts.

Plus then you're not only in the client-coding business but also the
IM-service business. And speaking from experience at the jabber.org
service I can say that the latter is not always fun because people
expect an always-on server (which can be difficult to maintain because
if your server is prominent it *will* be attacked).

But I don't mean to discourage you. :)

What if you spread the load around so that you had a handpicked list of
recommended servers in different parts of the world?

/psa