Self-hosting UnifiedPush with Conversations as Distributor

You might have heard that XMPP in general, and Conversations in particular, make a great UnifiedPush Distributor. That is correct! However, you might find yourself in a dilemma: you already have an XMPP account with a trusted provider that you want to keep using, and you don’t want to host and maintain your own XMPP server. Furthermore, you may not feel comfortable using the publicly accessible…