FreePBX
-
Two questions:
- Any thoughts about the official hosting provider http://www.freepbxhosting.com/virtual-private-server/?
- Any experience with iOS softphone apps, especially with regards to being able to make and receive calls without having your cell number exposed, and call quality.
Zoiper will handle #2
-
-
Two questions:
- Any thoughts about the official hosting provider http://www.freepbxhosting.com/virtual-private-server/?
Just that it seems rather expensive.
-
@kelly I have used it, it works. Just costs so much more than Vultr.
They do support FreePBX via their ticket system and you get a couple free modules, one of which just became more expensive.
But Vultr has been great...
-
@kelly I have used it, it works. Just costs so much more than Vultr.
They do support FreePBX via their ticket system and you get a couple free modules, one of which just became more expensive.
But Vultr has been great...
That's the big thing. It's like $40/mo instead of $5. That's 800% more. And is their hosting as good as Vultr? Maybe, maybe not. I don't have that info. But Vultr I know I'm getting an underlying vendor that I trust, and my FreePBX can be in the same pool as my other servers, not a one off with another platform vendor to manage separately. If this was the only VM that I had ever, sure, maybe. But $30+ / month premium for what appears to be basically nothing is a lot. That adds up quickly. You are still stuck supporting this system completely on your own.
-
@scottalanmiller said in FreePBX:
@kelly I have used it, it works. Just costs so much more than Vultr.
They do support FreePBX via their ticket system and you get a couple free modules, one of which just became more expensive.
But Vultr has been great...
That's the big thing. It's like $40/mo instead of $5. That's 800% more. And is their hosting as good as Vultr? Maybe, maybe not. I don't have that info. But Vultr I know I'm getting an underlying vendor that I trust, and my FreePBX can be in the same pool as my other servers, not a one off with another platform vendor to manage separately. If this was the only VM that I had ever, sure, maybe. But $30+ / month premium for what appears to be basically nothing is a lot. That adds up quickly. You are still stuck supporting this system completely on your own.
@Kelly Also, the specs of those VPS systems are crazy. The $34.99 system is 1vCPU and 2 GB of RAM and says 5-15 simultaneous calls? WTF?
You get SysAdminPro (not super useful, but handy) which costs $25 normally and you get EndPoint manager which costs $150.
Work the math and you will see that it does not make much sense long term.
-
@jaredbusch said in FreePBX:
@Kelly Also, the specs of those VPS systems are crazy. The $34.99 system is 1vCPU and 2 GB of RAM and says 5-15 simultaneous calls? WTF?
Yeah, makes no sense. Only 15 calls on 2GB RAM? Something seems wrong.
-
I think they are just a smaller data center and dont have the benefit of cost scale.
They have a Hosted SBC but they charge per month per port on a level that would rival leasing a $50k ACME packet switch at similar scale.
-
I think they are just a smaller data center and dont have the benefit of cost scale.
Which doesn't really make sense. They should be reselling off of one of the enterprise facilities. If they are a smaller shop running their own, that alone is a major reason to not use them. That's not what you want from your PBX hosting.
-
Smaller than VULTR I mean. I think they are two data centers, Phoenix and Milwaukee. I imagine that VULTR is just much much bigger.
Or maybe they pay Schmooze for the "official host" moniker?
-
Smaller than VULTR I mean. I think they are two data centers, Phoenix and Milwaukee. I imagine that VULTR is just much much bigger.
Or maybe they pay Schmooze for the "official host" moniker?
Sangoma. There is no more Schmooze.
Schmooze chose the datacenter in Milwaukee because Schmooze was based in Milwaukee.
