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Not to mention, the interface is polished and looks great IMO. Our one developer loves it because he can customize it so much and get directly into the DB if necessary.

Have a PBX workload at Vultr. It was running fine, then this afternoon, sudden, horrible call quality issues. After some troubleshooting, I opened a ticket with Vultr, just to see if anything was going on. The response:

"Our monitoring system has discovered an abusive neighboring instance in your host node's shared resource environment which may have created intermittent issues for your VM. We have disabled the problematic instance, and performance has returned to an optimal state."

@ChrisL Missed the AMA, but I would also be interested in hearing about the options and pricing for lower U plans on the East coast. (in PA or NJ) if you guys get into that.

Has anyone used the Ubiquiti line of Video products? I've been getting some questions as to a good solution for a small shop (car repair). They just want some security cameras setup. Any other recommendations besides the products below?

https://www.ubnt.com/unifi-video/unifi-nvr/

Wow! Talk about shaking up the competition.

@aaronstuder said in Intermittent call quality issues with a FreePBX instance on Vultr in Chicago:

Noisy Neighbor? Submit a ticket with Vultr

I had this exact issue a couple months ago with the NJ data center with VULTR. Noisy neighbor. Opened ticket with Vultr and the neighbor was shut down within 10 minutes.

Wow.... this thread exploded/derailed fast. As expected, this is a mixed bag. Thanks for the opinions and suggestions on new phones. I didn't know about a couple of those Android models.

I'm going to attempt to limp along until the next phone models come out next month and then make a final decision.

The next time somebody asks me, "but yeah, isn't fax more secure?" I'll do a face palm per usual, and then send them here so I don't have to explain ..again.

@syko24 said in VULTR ISSUE:

It appears to be fixed but did anyone notice the Vultr website not loading. My FreePBX was barely accessible as well. Site took about 10 minutes to finally come up.

I'm pretty sure, it is not vultr, but rather, this:

OMG, that is so much better. Thank you. Now your comment from earlier this week @EddieJennings makes perfect sense.

@eddiejennings said in Backing up user data on remote computers:

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@scottalanmiller said in Backing up user data on remote computers:

We use NextCloud, then only back that up, not the remote user devices.

Are you running your instance of NextCloud in a VPS with extra block storage for your files, or using their enterprise plan?

We run out own.

Forgive me for seeming thick, but you mean on your own hardware in your office or at a data center?

We never run on premises for production.

I figured not; thus, they're at a colo.

No, we use cloud computing.

Somehow I'm confused, so you are running your NextCloud in a cloud server instance like Vultr?

He's using NextCLOUD within a CLOUD......like Inception...

@scottalanmiller Yeah, that was dead simple. I spun up a VM with Fedora 27 minimal, and then installed with a 1-liner, and a wizard. Entire process probably took 10 minutes..ish. Great product.

Never mind.

I was trying to run the update script after installing the Repo... that will not work. You simply have to run yum install salt-minion.

@hobbit666 said in Backup server - Software layout:

VMDKs.. One VMDK (C: Drive) for Windows 201X on and install Veeam backup and replication, then have a 2nd VMD

I would go for either scenario 1, or scenario 1 using just 1 large VMDK for the entire thing. However, I too am looking for opinions as well.

I would not install Windows direct in my case, since I want to install a Hypervisor on the bare metal.

Is there anyway to know for sure whether or not you are using a new Skylake processor? Vultr is supposed to be putting any new instance (above the $10/month plan) on the new Skylake platform. Is there any way to see whether or not you are actually using these new processors? Aside from the lscpu command, which doesn't specifically show CPU model.

Does anyone use a CradlePoint or similar device as a backup internet connection. We lost internet at our local office, so we all just went home and are working from there. However, it brought up the point of backup connecitons again. I have an ER-4 router at this office, and while I know it is capable of doing Dual Wan configuration (failover), I'm wondering if anyone has experience with 4G/LTE backups. Or if something else would be better.

I have a friend who has a dental practice. They have no IT staff, and their environment is very basic. However, they DO want to upgrade their dying router. (which also is an access point) I was thinking an Edge Router Lite, and a Unifi AC-Lite. What is the best way to setup the AC-Lite? I usually setup the controller software somewhere locally and adopt the AP from it. Then shutdown and uninstall the controller software. But, for zero maintenance, would it be easier to use one of the Cloud controller keys to set this up? https://dl.ubnt.com/datasheets/unifi/UniFi_Cloud_Key_DS.pdf

I have not worked with the cloud controller keys before.

I want to take a deep dive into FusionPBX to compare it to FreePBX. What is the preferred OS to install on as of right now? Their documentation still says Debian 9, but also says Debian 10 and even CentOS 7 is "supported." (But Debian 9 is recommended.)

I've been thinking a lot about what choice to make if I were to go for a high availability system for VMs.

In a past life, I worked for a medium size software hosting company. They were setup with a full Hyper-V failover cluster, including the standard SAN, etc. It was setup before I got there, but it worked great. The hyper-visors were setup correctly (meaning they used Hyper-V server, NOT the Hyper-V role), they used Cluster Failover manager, etc. Doing system maintenance was a breeze, because I would failover all the VMs to the other hosts, perform updates to the node, and then move them back. This was back when I was using Hyper-V server 2012. As of now, a ton more features are available , including cluster aware updating and Windows Admin center which allows you to manage the whole lot from a web browser. Not too shabby.

So, If you create a cluster with Hyper-V server (not the ROLE), and plan to have only Linux VMs on the cluster, thus eliminating the whole licensing downside to MS, what are the main pros and cons of going with the MS solution, VS something else in the Linux world? I'm not leaning one way or another at this point, but I've been so engrossed in the Linux world for the past couple of years, that MS Hyper-V wasn't even a thought in my mind. But now that I'm thinking about it, I'm not really thinking about any big downsides.

Can't wait to get some good discussion going on this.

@scottalanmiller said in FreePBX and changing IPs:

@AdamF said in FreePBX and changing IPs:

@scottalanmiller said in FreePBX and changing IPs:

@jmoore said in FreePBX and changing IPs:

Would setting up ZeroTier and adding their machine to it be a solution?

Yes, VPNs will essentially always solve this. The problem is that it is often a physical phone without a VPN built it. So it ends up being a lot of effort.

So this user had a Yealink T46s. (my favorite phone) I know that this has VPN capabilities, but I have not looked into how it works with FPBX. Have you?

It's like a honey badger with VPNs.

Pure gold.