I wouldn't have AXIMSITE host it. I agree with ya, I bet the server has much work.
I mean something like just announcing a meeting place on
mIRC.
On their list of
servers hey have many choices and once in the program, it seems like the list is even larger. I have never hosted or really gone deep enough to look at running a channel honestly with the possibility of chanel takeovers etc... I think mIRC would be the best choice though.