Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX
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Datacenter failover is pretty simple with most PBX. We've done Canada to US failover before, no issues.
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Is there many people using Fusion PBX in production? is that much of a comparison compared to Freepbx? GUI looks slightly nicer than Freepbx.
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@aaronstuder said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
@bigbear said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
I am going with a $20 Vultr instance next as I plan to run 11 tenants and hundreds of phones off this install.
What happens when Vulrt goes down? Do you have 11 company's all calling you for support at the same time?
Same thing that happens now with my 11 FreePBX installs.
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@bigbear said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
@aaronstuder said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
@bigbear said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
I am going with a $20 Vultr instance next as I plan to run 11 tenants and hundreds of phones off this install.
What happens when Vulrt goes down? Do you have 11 company's all calling you for support at the same time?
Same thing that happens now with my 11 FreePBX installs.
But slightly (very slightly) easier to restore one system than eleven.
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If I were to guess, I would guess that @aaronstuder was talking about a single Vultr instance/fusionpbx instance going down, and thus taking out 11 clients.
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@stuartjordan said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
Is there many people using Fusion PBX in production? is that much of a comparison compared to Freepbx? GUI looks slightly nicer than Freepbx.
There are a lot of people using it. In telecom people don't share and recommend much because everyone, even your small no-name itsp guy, all perceive themselves to be in competition.
And again, my focus is on getting more options for single tenant every day phone system installs.
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@bigbear said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
@stuartjordan said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
Is there many people using Fusion PBX in production? is that much of a comparison compared to Freepbx? GUI looks slightly nicer than Freepbx.
There are a lot of people using it. In telecom people don't share and recommend much because everyone, even your small no-name itsp guy, all perceive themselves to be in competition.
And again, my focus is on getting more options for single tenant every day phone system installs.
It's true. It's rare for PBX / VoIP people to talk to each other. ML is rare in that we have several "competitors" talking openly with each other.
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@fuznutz04 said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
If I were to guess, I would guess that @aaronstuder was talking about a single Vultr instance/fusionpbx instance going down, and thus taking out 11 clients.
I haven't had a single instance go down on Vultr since I started using it. Just some reboots during upgrades in NYC location.
With the way freeswitch and domains are setup, and with the single backup, it would still be easier to restore than FreePBX.
You could run 11 FusionPBX instances on $5 vultr machines. In fact Debian 8 would require less resources than the sangoma Linux distro
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@bigbear I downloaded the ISO, I just need to find some time to try it out. I do like the fact that it is based on FreeSwitch, which seems to be used by a lot of the big players. (Flowroute for example)
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@scottalanmiller said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
@bigbear said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
@stuartjordan said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
Is there many people using Fusion PBX in production? is that much of a comparison compared to Freepbx? GUI looks slightly nicer than Freepbx.
There are a lot of people using it. In telecom people don't share and recommend much because everyone, even your small no-name itsp guy, all perceive themselves to be in competition.
And again, my focus is on getting more options for single tenant every day phone system installs.
It's true. It's rare for PBX / VoIP people to talk to each other. ML is rare in that we have several "competitors" talking openly with each other.
Along that thinking I've been wandering if I could negotiate to get my calling rates available for ML members without them coming through my sub account.
I have 2 million minutes of usage per month but if all ML usage was pooled with a Telnyx I bet it could be twice that. Thereby giving everyone a .005 to .007 rate.
Sam model as my wholesale hardware pricing.
Then think about the fact that we could recommend a true FOSS pbx against FreePBX, a wholesale rate vs SIPStation and discounted Yealink phones.
Something along the spirit of Lets Encrypt.
But from that point still continue to encourage other companies to release their pbx as FOSS.
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@bigbear said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
@fuznutz04 said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
If I were to guess, I would guess that @aaronstuder was talking about a single Vultr instance/fusionpbx instance going down, and thus taking out 11 clients.
I haven't had a single instance go down on Vultr since I started using it. Just some reboots during upgrades in NYC location.
With the way freeswitch and domains are setup, and with the single backup, it would still be easier to restore than FreePBX.
You could run 11 FusionPBX instances on $5 vultr machines. In fact Debian 8 would require less resources than the sangoma Linux distro
Yup, same here. Vultr uptime is great. Makes Azure look downright silly.
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@fuznutz04 said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
@bigbear I downloaded the ISO, I just need to find some time to try it out. I do like the fact that it is based on FreeSwitch, which seems to be used by a lot of the big players. (Flowroute for example)
Best to spin up Debian 8 on Vultr and run the Jessie script.
I'm working on outlining that onto a very simple single page specific to a Vultr. There is no documentation on Twilio, Telnyx or flowroute so I thought I would add that.
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@bigbear said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
@fuznutz04 said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
@bigbear I downloaded the ISO, I just need to find some time to try it out. I do like the fact that it is based on FreeSwitch, which seems to be used by a lot of the big players. (Flowroute for example)
Best to spin up Debian 8 on Vultr and run the Jessie script.
I'm working on outlining that onto a very simple single page specific to a Vultr. There is no documentation on Twilio, Telnyx or flowroute so I thought I would add that.
Good deal. I want to test this as well. We will see how my schedule is (and if I get Internet access back at home.)
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FusionPBX uses the same terminology as FreeSWITCH for Gateways (trunks) and so this is documented at the following links.
Twilio
https://www.twilio.com/blog/2013/03/trying-out-the-twilio-sip-noun-using-freeswitch.htmlFlowroute
https://freeswitch.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=2883692Many providers
https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/Providers+ITSPs -
@markjcrane said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
FusionPBX uses the same terminology as FreeSWITCH for Gateways (trunks) and so this is documented at the following links.
Twilio
https://www.twilio.com/blog/2013/03/trying-out-the-twilio-sip-noun-using-freeswitch.htmlFlowroute
https://freeswitch.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=2883692Many providers
https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/Providers+ITSPsI saw those @markjcrane but a lot of guys will abandon this if they can't get through a first install.
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@scottalanmiller said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
Do you mean if a Datacenter fails? Because that would affect FreePBX or FusionPBX the same.
My point is all your eggs are in one basket. Anything (Bad Update, Human Error, etc) could cause all 11 tenants to fail. At least with different VM's you only made one customer crash
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@scottalanmiller said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
The handy thing is that when the PBX goes down, the customers can't call you!
Yeah, because surely there cell phones don't work lmao...
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@bigbear said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
@fuznutz04 said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
@bigbear I downloaded the ISO, I just need to find some time to try it out. I do like the fact that it is based on FreeSwitch, which seems to be used by a lot of the big players. (Flowroute for example)
Best to spin up Debian 8 on Vultr and run the Jessie script.
That's what I did... Very easy
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@bigbear said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
@fuznutz04 said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
@bigbear I downloaded the ISO, I just need to find some time to try it out. I do like the fact that it is based on FreeSwitch, which seems to be used by a lot of the big players. (Flowroute for example)
Best to spin up Debian 8 on Vultr and run the Jessie script.
I'm working on outlining that onto a very simple single page specific to a Vultr. There is no documentation on Twilio, Telnyx or flowroute so I thought I would add that.
Looking forward to it!
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@aaronstuder said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
@scottalanmiller said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
Do you mean if a Datacenter fails? Because that would affect FreePBX or FusionPBX the same.
My point is all your eggs are in one basket. Anything (Bad Update, Human Error, etc) could cause all 11 tenants to fail. At least with different VM's you only made one customer crash
You clearly do not understand the design here.
@bigbear is looking at selling a platform as a service (PaaS) with his design. This is nothing like you wanting to find the latest free thing that you can run for yourself and make money.
The margins in this business are tiny. I wish @bigbear all the luck in the world, but it is not a market I would ever try to get into. In fact @bigbear is only even in the market because of prior work and existing client base.
The market I am after are the single instance phone systems that I can implement for a client and then either walk away or maintain based on the client's desire.
It is a completely different thing.
All of that said, where the hell would you expect a solution to be hosted? Do you think RingCentral or 8x8 do not have a huge failure domain when a datacenter goes down? If you think not, then you need to go back and look at the huge AWS outage and Level3 outages in the last 12 months and compare that to the reports of services down from RingCentral and 8x8 customers.
