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Jabber ID Change

Yes I know, I have been stuffing around a lot between different Jabber servers over the last few years. I had accounts on jabber.org, jabber.obsidian.co.za, muti.mobi, jabber.co.za, etc. There were also some other ones I used privately but let's not even go there. Then there was also charlvn@charlvn.za.net although that was actually Google Talk and I never set up Jabber federation properly due to my limited DNS provider.

I was mainly using jabber.co.za for the last few months. To my knowledge, it's the only remaining public Jabber server hosted in South Africa. Although it's generally pretty fast and reliable in comparison to most public overseas servers, I have been getting a little frustrated due to high latency between jabber.co.za and overseas servers during (local) daytime hours (after hours it seems to be much better).

There also seems to be some problems with communication to many other servers (including Google Talk), particularly concerning status changes of my contacts that are not being reflected in my roster. I know some people that run their own Jabber servers that claim that they are discovering many errors generated during communication between their servers and jabber.co.za but I do not have the specifics.

Don't get me wrong, I don't want to bash jabber.co.za at all, I think it's fantastic that they are running a public Jabber server on the South African internet backbone as I'm sure it's not a cheap affair and I'm also sure they have to deal with lots of abuse. Personally however I use Jabber on a daily basis for important business and personal needs so I had to move to a more reliable solution.

Because I believe in keeping local things local (no point in sending messages overseas just to have them go back into the country) for speed, bandwidth efficiency and reliability, I have been sticking around for quite a while until I get a better alternative. I also need something I can use even while I'm on a local-only ADSL account.

However finally I managed to get my act together and sort things out. I am now once again shifting to another Jabber server. This is a closed server (not open for public registration unfortunately, or at least not yet) and it's the main one I'll be using from off onwards into the foreseeable future. It's on very reliable local hosting and so far it's been super-fast.

My new full Jabber ID is:

charlvn@jabber.cojjo.co.za

If you added my new JID to your roster but your server is reporting any problems connecting to my server or if you experience any other problems related to me please let me know and I'll look into it as soon as possible. Also, this is supposed to work from "federated" networks (not sure if that's the right term) such as Google Talk as well... (I actually already have two Google Talk contacts and am experiencing no problems whatsoever communicating with them.)

Posted by Charl van Niekerk on Thursday, May 29, 2008
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