<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 19, 2008 9:26 PM, Rob Hillis <<a href="mailto:rob@hillis.dyndns.org">rob@hillis.dyndns.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Most people seem to think that Asterisk is a really cheap PBX. While
Asterisk is certainly <i>cheaper</i> 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.<div class="Ih2E3d"></div></div></blockquote><div><br>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!
<br><br>Thanks,<br>Steve Totaro<br></div></div><br>