The StaticBox network has always cared a great deal for its users. That's why we are asking you how we can improve our irc network, website and forum.
You have been dying to tell us your ideas or suggestions for either the network or website, now is your chance to share them with us. Tell us what we are doing wrong (or right) and tell us what we can do to improve the network for you.
irc.meganet.us has been permanantly linked to the network. The vote concluded with 100% of participants voting YES, resulting in a majority being reached quickly. The server will still be in probationary status until August 19th.
irc.meganet.us has been linked to the network. It is adminstrated by betrayed, and has no restrictions. Provided there are no problems with the link, he will become permanantly linked on August 5th.
There will be two outage windows for Services in July. The first one is completed on today July 8, taking an hour or so longer than the expected outage window. This was due to a mistake made by one of SystemInPlace's technicians while working on the server which hosts Services and the primary US hub. These outages are to deal with a drive failure which is threatening data integrity on that machine; the first outage was to identify and pull the drive which was problematic, the second outage is to replace the drives in multiple stages to ensure that the machine is running on 100% new drives.
Learning from my mistake with estimating the outage window for the first outage, I'm going to estimate that the next outage will be 2 or 3 hours long. The date for this outage is not set yet, as it depends on how fast we receive the replacement drives from Western Digital.
If you have any questions about the network, and these outages, please stop by irc.staticbox.net #staticbox.
Update: The next outage is planned to be Thursday, July 31st to rebuild the RAID array. Thanks!
You can now use our mibbit irc chat module on this website to connect to StaticBox.net to chat.
Just click on Live IRC Chat on the right sidebar and a chat client will open.
This is particularly useful if you are at work or at school and you can't install your favorite irc client.
This morning we decommissioned our hub in Sweden, which has been facing stability issues for the last two months. We feel that this change should improve network stability by reducing netsplits.
The wait is over. StaticBox now officially supports SSL.
Now only a few servers have ssl enabled but in a few weeks most of your favorite client servers should have ssl enabled. Till then use our ssl dns pool to connect to a random ssl enabled server.
You can connect to ssl.staticbox.net on port 6697 using your favorite irc client.
Enjoy.
If you encounter any problems let us know.
I have decided to disable the forum because nobody was using it.
If you do need support you can find us in the usual channels on irc.
Thanks for understanding.
irc.darkwire.ru has been test linked to the network for a while now. We did not encounter any problems with the testlink so therefor they are now permlinked.
The server is located in Russia, and should provide a low latency connection for users in russia and surrounding countries (Poland, the Ukraine, etcetera), and is administrated by dwr.
Congratulations to dwr and his server 
We have been working for the last few days to add SSL support to the ircd. This has resulted in a test server being linked to the network supporting SSL. We encourage you to connect to this test server, as additional userload will help to get the bugs worked out.
To connect to the server, you can do one of the following:
mIRC: /server -m ircd-dev.dereferenced.org +9999
XChat or Conspire: /newserver ircd-dev.dereferenced.org +9999
Irssi: /server -ssl ircd-dev.dereferenced.org 9999
