Need suggestions for an IRC server suitable for a group project

So I'm trying to find a suitable IRC server to make a channel on for a software engineering group project, but I'm not too sure of a good server.

I've had a look around and there are so many to chose from!

Anybody have any good suggestions? Basically I want something that has good uptime and will allow us to use the network for this purpose. I'm having trouble just picking one and setting up channel