--- title: Testimonials --- People are talking about Prosody, we love it! Since we have no budget for [marketing](/marketing), if you would, help spread the word! Here is a collection of kind words folks around the web have said. If you'd like to be added to this page, [let us know](/discuss). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > We have been running Prosody for many years now in Antarctica to provide real-time chat to a research group at the South Pole. It has been easy and > great the whole time. > > All the real-time coordination work with the pole site for the first black hole photos you might have seen a couple years ago happened via Prosody, > for example Nathan Whitehorn ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Wow, that **is** easy to set up! [Mark Nottingham](http://intertwingly.net/blog/2013/05/20/Prosody-as-a-personal-xmpp-server#c1369132166) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > \[Prosody\] absolutely hit the spot for development work and actually > felt fun. [rrees](https://rrees.me/2010/10/20/comparing-jabber-servers/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Prosody is a lightweight XMPP communications server that is a breeze > to download and install. [John](https://web.archive.org/web/20131022184007/http://www.classicyuppie.com/2013/01/using-prosody-im-to-create-your-own-jabber-server/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > I would recommend Prosody. It's lightweight, easy to configure, > supports SSL, and has a helpful community. [Damn Terminal](http://askubuntu.com/a/245742/53920) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "If you want a fast, lightweight XMPP server, try Prosody. [Joe Hildebrand](http://stackoverflow.com/a/2433528/15996) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Prosody \[is\] very lightweight and easy to install [Christopher](http://stackoverflow.com/a/2420989/15996) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Just finished "upgrading" ejabberd to Prosody. Much smoother than I > thought. Config is far, far simpler. I really, really \<3 Prosody > [:smile:]{.icon} [\@ivucica](https://twitter.com/ivucica/status/145615534862503936){.text-danger} ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Converted my IM server from ejabberd to Prosody. Yay for > human-readable logs and lower memory use! [\@sud0er](https://web.archive.org/web/20131022184007/http://identi.ca/notice/46705125) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Installed Prosody on my own server, really most awesome XMPP server in > the wild, and that for being so new [\@raudssus](http://twitter.com/raudssus/status/14662941697){.text-danger} ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Tried Prosody earlier today. Colour me impressed. [\@kev](http://identi.ca/notice/6599165){.text-danger} ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Prosody is seriously cool. You just dont get used to not having to > compile the server for changes [\@jcdickinson](http://identi.ca/notice/6793500) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > I think Prosody is off to a great start, and is a very hackable, very > XMPP strict server. No xmlns shortcut DOS problems, very solid. [\@fritzy](http://identi.ca/notice/10613178){.text-danger} ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Got my local instance of Prosody running. Light and snappy. Very > happy. [\@eightyeight](http://identi.ca/notice/20040270){.text-danger} ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > I'm liking Prosody [\@bear](http://identi.ca/notice/10613167){.text-danger} ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Switched to Prosody the other day. Light on resources, simple config > but can still handle large deployments. Happy so far. [\@nolan](http://identi.ca/notice/4662738){.text-danger} ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > I need a mailserver as easy for mail as Prosody for Jabber [\@nkoehring](http://identi.ca/notice/4467200) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > So far I like Prosody quite a bit: it's a lean little server that's > very easy to install and configure, especially on Debian. \[...\] > Congrats to the Prosody team on a solid piece of software! [Peter Saint-Andre](https://web.archive.org/web/20110721145808/https://stpeter.im/index.php/2009/06/16/prosodic/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > If only more software packages were this polite and helpful > [:smile:]{.icon} [Michael Fleming](http://www.thatfleminggent.com/2009/07/30/how-polite) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Checking out on my messaging server. Good work > [\@mattj](http://identi.ca/mattj)! [\@eightyeight](http://identi.ca/notice/2329544){.text-danger} ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Well moved away from ejabberd to Prosody, it has a lot of less stuff > but also needs like 1% of the ejabberd's resources [\@deepspawn](https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.brainbird.co.cc/notice/152321) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Replaced #ejabberd (erlang) XMPP server by #prosody (lua) - its config > is so much more KISS [\@rebugger](https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://identi.ca/notice/25356800){.text-danger} ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Prosody looks way too simple to be true [:smile:]{.icon} [\@xsteadfastx](http://identi.ca/notice/20093785){.text-danger} ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Prosody is a nice XMPP server. [Christine Lemmer-Webber](http://dustycloud.org/blog/view_post/prosody/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------