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

[Steve Totaro]

On Jan 19, 2008 9:26 PM, Rob Hillis <rob at hillis.dyndns.org> wrote:

>  I wasn't intending to blame Ira for his own problems - I was intending to
> point out that running a production system on discarded hardware is a really
> bad idea.
>
> I wasn't even suggesting a mammoth server - as you may or may not have
> seen in my subsequent reply to him, the place I work for sells fairly
> low-end servers as Asterisk boxes which (at least in Australia) are
> comparable to mid to upper-mid range desktops in terms of pricing.  90% of
> the serious reliability problems I've seen are on hardware that people have
> taken the really cheap route on.
>
> Most people seem to think that Asterisk is a really cheap PBX.  While
> Asterisk is certainly *cheaper* than just about all comparable PBXs, if
> it's to be done properly and reliably it's certainly not dirt cheap.
> Evaluating Asterisk certainly can be since if it's only a test system, you
> can scrounge up some older hardware.  The real mistake is in putting the
> older hardware into full production.
>

I have a production box that is a HP 380 with dual Xeon 2.8 procs and two
gigs of RAM and RAID 5 that was discarded by a large company.  Absolutely
nothing wrong with the box, they just went all IBM.  One person's trash is
another person's treasure!

Thanks,
Steve Totaro
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