[asterisk-users] Asterisk 'Hosting'

[Brandon Galbraith]

You could use Xen on Fedora Core 6 and virtualize each instance if you feel
the need is there.

On 8/16/06, Douglas Garstang <dgarstang at oneeighty.com> wrote:
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> > From: Matt Riddell (NZ) [mailto:matt.riddell at sineapps.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 12:06 PM
> > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 'Hosting'
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> > Douglas Garstang wrote:
> > > Has anyone ever tried to run multiple instances of Asterisk
> > on a single system, running each with a different username,
> > and each in a separate base directory? Something like
> > /home/pbx/business-1, home/pbx/business-2 etc?
> > >
> > > Did it work? I assume for every service that Asterisk runs,
> > on each instance, you'd have to use a different port numbers,
> > which may get confusing. Each businesses phones would have to
> > be configred with different SIP ports then too.
> > >
> > > What about processes? I notice that Asterisk runs about 26
> > processes (or are they threads?) for a single instance.
> >
> > Why not just use different contexts for each company?
>
> Because Asterisk wasn't designed with carrier class features in mind. It
> was designed for a single enterprise. The dialplan, and config files, start
> to get very very complicated after you add more than a few companies.
> Combine that with having to have multiple extensions for a single function
> (our Queues are accessed by a regular extension but then have to dial
> another 'virtual' extension so that DUNDi can work out the 'primary' server
> for a queue) and so on. Anyway, it's becoming unmanagable.
>
> Doug.
>
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