I've probably made 4 account's on different providers and all of them are always either not recognized on my clients, or always in a "connecting" loop. I'm working on creating my own server using Openfire but that's going to be a while since I can get everything setup and ready.

What providers are there that are stable and recommended to use? I'm sorry if this gets asked a lot, I'm just wondering if this is a common XMPP issue or if it's an issue on my side.

Update: It seems that the issue was that i had some sort of aggressive DNS block list active on my VPN by accident, disabiling that seems to have fixed everything.