[asterisk-biz] Choice of Server & VOIP Provider?

[Chris Mason]

For this small an installation, which I do all the time, I would use an 
embedded machine running Astlinux. If you want a PSTN line, use a 
SPA-3000 or two or a sip gateway.

The advantage of this solution is reliability. The Astlinux machine uses 
a flash card for the OS, and so is largely immune to hard drive failure.
I have only two configurations I will deploy - a RAID with two hard 
drives, dual PSU server class monster or a tiny 1 GHz flash card based 
fanless mini machine. Guess which is more reliable. Telephony is about 
reliability, not features and speed. At the end of the day, we are 
connecting two endpoints, not computing weather probabilities. The trick 
is to do it every time, without fail.

Chris

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