Your hosting company is referring to running an IRC Server. However, the chat channels have nothing to do with IRC.
What happens is, You set up your server to tell the client where the chatchannels server is. The client then connects to that server. In eqemu's case, the server it connects to then relays it to the eqemu IRC Network, and vise versa back to you.
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