Has anyone used FluidServers.net?
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They've got some spectacularly cheap Elastix optoins.
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No, haven't used them. Small players scale me for hosting. Rackspace and Digital Ocean are bigger and cheaper than this.
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How hard is Elastix to setup, assuming you know basic Linux?
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After the install almost all configuration can be done via the webinterface. The install is a little odd though. You have to mount the install iso as a repo if you are installing it to an existing centos box.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
After the install almost all configuration can be done via the webinterface. The install is a little odd though. You have to mount the install iso as a repo if you are installing it to an existing centos box.
That is not their designed install path. At least they make it possible.
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@Aaron-Studer said:
How hard is Elastix to setup, assuming you know basic Linux?
Like two commands. One to add the repo and one to install the package.
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i literally can't get elastix installed on my C@C server. i'm a linux idiot.
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This should get you Elastix 4.0 beta (with freepbx) on CentOS 7
yum update -y
yum install epel-release -y
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/elastix/files/Elastix Test_Beta Packages/4.0.0-beta1/Elastix-4.0.48-BETA1-x86_64-bin-12mar2014.iso
mkdir /mnt/iso
mount -o loop Elastix-4.0.48-BETA1-x86_64-bin-12mar2014.iso /mnt/iso
vi /etc/yum.repos.d/elastix-cd.repo[elastix-cd] name=Elastix RPM Repo CD baseurl=file:///mnt/iso/ gpgcheck=0 enabled=1yum -y install elastix
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@thecreativeone91 isn't 4.0 the multi tennant?
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@Hubtech said:
@thecreativeone91 isn't 4.0 the multi tennant?
nope, dumb again. you right. lemme play w/ dat
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Make sure you replace that wget link with a Direct download link. I forgot too.
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@scottalanmiller said:
No, haven't used them. Small players scale me for hosting. Rackspace and Digital Ocean are bigger and cheaper than this.
Rackspace offers Elastix for 25 concurrent lines for $15/month? Even if this doesn't include the cost of the SIP trunks - why is anyone running their own phone system?
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@Dashrender said:
Rackspace offers Elastix for 25 concurrent lines for $15/month? Even if this doesn't include the cost of the SIP trunks - why is anyone running their own phone system?
Far bigger than that. DO for even less. $10 on DO I think.
Because people wear tin foil hats to work every day.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
Rackspace offers Elastix for 25 concurrent lines for $15/month? Even if this doesn't include the cost of the SIP trunks - why is anyone running their own phone system?
Far bigger than that. DO for even less. $10 on DO I think.
Because people wear tin foil hats to work every day.
Is that a jab
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@Dashrender lol, wasn't mean to be.
People fear hosting in general, even though it is often more secure and stable. It's just a curse of IT.
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Considering these options - am I just crazy to consider hosting our PBX in the cloud?
I'm completely unwilling to pay $10-20/ext/month like some providers want, but I'd definitely be willing to look at other solutions closer to $1-3/ext/month providing my own endpoint equipment (including SIP trunks) for my 66 extensions (16 in one building, 50 in another)?
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If you have the redundancy and reliability on site there is no reason to pay for some one else to host it when you could just spin up a new vm.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender lol, wasn't mean to be.
People fear hosting in general, even though it is often more secure and stable. It's just a curse of IT.
The stability is what I fear. The cost of going to a better protected internet connection, or trying to manage multiple ISPs is costly and at times difficult.
i.e. we currently pay $875/month for 10 Mb fiber connection with a 99.999 SLA - of course the SLA is only giving us some cash back if they drop below the SLA, and that doesn't really do me any good when I have 40 patients in the waiting room and I have to cancel because my internet connection went down so I can no longer access my EHR which is entirely online only.
So I can look to bringing in another ISP and different firewall/router equipment to fail over to in case one provider has an issue I can keep working from the other.
In writing this all things considered I can probably save myself a bundle, get two lower class ISPs (cable and DSL) from different providers.
Thoughts? - nevermind.. don't answer in this thread - I've started a new one.
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[root@localhost ~]# mkdir /mnt/iso
[root@localhost ~]# mount -o loop Elastix-4.0.48-BETA1-x86_64-bin-12mar2014.iso /mnt/iso
mount: Elastix-4.0.48-BETA1-x86_64-bin-12mar2014.iso: failed to setup loop device: No such file or directory -
@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender lol, wasn't mean to be.
People fear hosting in general, even though it is often more secure and stable. It's just a curse of IT.
The stability is what I fear. The cost of going to a better protected internet connection, or trying to manage multiple ISPs is costly and at times difficult.
i.e. we currently pay $875/month for 10 Mb fiber connection with a 99.999 SLA - of course the SLA is only giving us some cash back if they drop below the SLA, and that doesn't really do me any good when I have 40 patients in the waiting room and I have to cancel because my internet connection went down so I can no longer access my EHR which is entirely online only.
So I can look to bringing in another ISP and different firewall/router equipment to fail over to in case one provider has an issue I can keep working from the other.
In writing this all things considered I can probably save myself a bundle, get two lower class ISPs (cable and DSL) from different providers.
Thoughts?
Business Grade connections are much better. I wouldn't consider a low end connection. It's not worth it. You get what you pay for in terms of connections. Fiber connections are generally far more reliable and have less latency than a Cable or DSL connection. It also it's a shared trunk in most cases with DSL/Cable.
