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What is your choice for self-hosting chat on webiste?
We would like to have an easy way to interact with customer similar to http://www.livechatinc.com/, but self-hosting.
What are your suggestions?
PS: if the price is very low (<10$ month), cloud-hosting is fine too
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http://livehelperchat.com/
it looks promising but quite complicated. I may not need a complete admin to manage that. My scenario is simple that the customer comes in, and start chat, he/she will be routed to my skype.
Yes, simple... A skype button does that.
http://www.skype.com/en/features/skype-buttons/create-skype-buttons/
As to a chat widget > Skype... that is not so simple.
www.zopim.com supports linking your Skype to their service but it's not selfhosted.
You may want to check out this:
http://codecanyon.net/item/php-live-chat-php-wordpress-joomla-drupal/6905905
I've tried tawk.to and it is very simple
zopim offers best
We use Mibew mibew.org and this mobile client mibewmob.scalior.com works well for us.
+1 for skype button
IRC + a web IRC client (KiwiIRC, anyone?), it's an easy solution — and who doesn't like IRC?
KiwiIRC is beautiful.