[asterisk-users] asterisk-1.2.26.tar.gz Thoughts?

[Rob Hillis]

PC's age and when they age, things tend to go wrong, particularly when
you upgrade software.  Unusual crashes are usually the first sign that
something is going wrong.

To me, it sounds like you've put the money into many of the right areas
- segregating your voice and data networks, going with decent phones and
ensuring your power is reliable so it just seems a little strange to go
cheap on the actual server.

It sounds like you've been pretty lucky with this machine - not all
desktop machines are going to be anywhere near that reliable.  The big
thing that server grade machines give you is better quality of parts
that have been extensively tested with a range of operating systems.  I
guess it's up to you - personally, I'd take the warning signs and start
planning to replace the server.  Possibly I'm just a little more
cautious than some.  :)


Ira wrote:
> At 04:44 AM 1/19/2008, you wrote:
>
> Well, it's been very reliable. It's been running 24/7 for 2 years and 
> the only problems have been my putting bugs in the dial plan, 
> problems with SIP providers going broke and trying 1.4.  So how 
> exactly would more expensive hardware have improved my reliability?
>
> I really wanted it to be reliable. I ran a duplicate network for the 
> phones so they don't share bandwidth, I bought good phones. 
> Everything is POE with the POE switch, the Asterisk box and all the 
> networking stuff to the outside on a big UPS.
>
> Do you actually think the odds of a HP desktop sitting on a UPS in a 
> cool corner doing nothing suddenly dying are much greater than a 
> bottom end server box doing the same?  It seems to me unless I want 
> to go dual PS and flash drives that I'm not going to do much better 
> than I have now.
>
> Ira
>
>   
>> What you run it on is very much a function of how reliable you want 
>> the system to be.  The better the hardware, the more reliable it 
>> will be.  If you're running in a business environment, then I 
>> wouldn't recommend anything less than server grade - even if it's 
>> low end server grade.  The company I work for supplies either Dell 
>> PowerEdge 860s (1RU servers that are similar in price to an upper 
>> mid-range desktop) or Dell PowerEdge 840s (tower cases that are 
>> similar in price to a mid-range desktop)
>>
>> Running on cheap hardware is a great way to cost yourself more in 
>> the long run - in lost productivity, lost sales and IT support.
>>
>>
>>     
>>> Except that it's been running 1.2 for 2 years with no problems. It 
>>> has to handle all of about 20 to 30 calls/day so it's not really 
>>> under much load and I see no reason why it should be a problem. If 
>>> not for the TDM404 I would probably try to put it on a NSLU2.  What 
>>> would you recommend I run it on?
>>>       
>
>
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