You may also choose a Windrop which is a windows Eggdrop, meaning it's a standalone bot with the same features as a regular eggdrop (because it simply *is* an eggdrop compiled to run on a windows system). The advantage is that you get all the eggdrop features without having to get and pay for a shell account, the disadvantage is that the bot will be dependant on your system, thus go offline when you go offline etc.

More info on windrop can be found at http://mirc-egg.net/fwd.php?id=windrop