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      A Former User @A Former User
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      @thecreativeone91 isn't 4.0 the multi tennant?

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        A Former User @A Former User
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        @Hubtech said:

        @thecreativeone91 isn't 4.0 the multi tennant?

        nope, dumb again. you right. lemme play w/ dat

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          A Former User
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          Make sure you replace that wget link with a Direct download link. I forgot too.

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          • DashrenderD
            Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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            @scottalanmiller said:

            No, haven't used them. Small players scale me for hosting. Rackspace and Digital Ocean are bigger and cheaper than this.

            Rackspace offers Elastix for 25 concurrent lines for $15/month? Even if this doesn't include the cost of the SIP trunks - why is anyone running their own phone system?

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              scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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              @Dashrender said:

              Rackspace offers Elastix for 25 concurrent lines for $15/month? Even if this doesn't include the cost of the SIP trunks - why is anyone running their own phone system?

              Far bigger than that. DO for even less. $10 on DO I think.

              Because people wear tin foil hats to work every day.

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              • DashrenderD
                Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                @scottalanmiller said:

                @Dashrender said:

                Rackspace offers Elastix for 25 concurrent lines for $15/month? Even if this doesn't include the cost of the SIP trunks - why is anyone running their own phone system?

                Far bigger than that. DO for even less. $10 on DO I think.

                Because people wear tin foil hats to work every day.

                Is that a jab 😝

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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                  @Dashrender lol, wasn't mean to be.

                  People fear hosting in general, even though it is often more secure and stable. It's just a curse of IT.

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                  • DashrenderD
                    Dashrender
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                    Considering these options - am I just crazy to consider hosting our PBX in the cloud?

                    I'm completely unwilling to pay $10-20/ext/month like some providers want, but I'd definitely be willing to look at other solutions closer to $1-3/ext/month providing my own endpoint equipment (including SIP trunks) for my 66 extensions (16 in one building, 50 in another)?

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                      A Former User
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                      If you have the redundancy and reliability on site there is no reason to pay for some one else to host it when you could just spin up a new vm.

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                      • DashrenderD
                        Dashrender @scottalanmiller
                        last edited by Dashrender

                        @scottalanmiller said:

                        @Dashrender lol, wasn't mean to be.

                        People fear hosting in general, even though it is often more secure and stable. It's just a curse of IT.

                        The stability is what I fear. The cost of going to a better protected internet connection, or trying to manage multiple ISPs is costly and at times difficult.

                        i.e. we currently pay $875/month for 10 Mb fiber connection with a 99.999 SLA - of course the SLA is only giving us some cash back if they drop below the SLA, and that doesn't really do me any good when I have 40 patients in the waiting room and I have to cancel because my internet connection went down so I can no longer access my EHR which is entirely online only.

                        So I can look to bringing in another ISP and different firewall/router equipment to fail over to in case one provider has an issue I can keep working from the other.

                        In writing this all things considered I can probably save myself a bundle, get two lower class ISPs (cable and DSL) from different providers.

                        Thoughts? - nevermind.. don't answer in this thread - I've started a new one.

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                        • ?
                          A Former User
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                          2015-04-07 14:21:56 (951 KB/s) - ‘download’ saved [1342113792/1342113792]

                          [root@localhost ~]# mkdir /mnt/iso
                          [root@localhost ~]# mount -o loop Elastix-4.0.48-BETA1-x86_64-bin-12mar2014.iso /mnt/iso
                          mount: Elastix-4.0.48-BETA1-x86_64-bin-12mar2014.iso: failed to setup loop device: No such file or directory

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                            A Former User @Dashrender
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                            @Dashrender said:

                            @scottalanmiller said:

                            @Dashrender lol, wasn't mean to be.

                            People fear hosting in general, even though it is often more secure and stable. It's just a curse of IT.

                            The stability is what I fear. The cost of going to a better protected internet connection, or trying to manage multiple ISPs is costly and at times difficult.

                            i.e. we currently pay $875/month for 10 Mb fiber connection with a 99.999 SLA - of course the SLA is only giving us some cash back if they drop below the SLA, and that doesn't really do me any good when I have 40 patients in the waiting room and I have to cancel because my internet connection went down so I can no longer access my EHR which is entirely online only.

                            So I can look to bringing in another ISP and different firewall/router equipment to fail over to in case one provider has an issue I can keep working from the other.

                            In writing this all things considered I can probably save myself a bundle, get two lower class ISPs (cable and DSL) from different providers.

                            Thoughts?

                            Business Grade connections are much better. I wouldn't consider a low end connection. It's not worth it. You get what you pay for in terms of connections. Fiber connections are generally far more reliable and have less latency than a Cable or DSL connection. It also it's a shared trunk in most cases with DSL/Cable.

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                              A Former User @A Former User
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                              @Hubtech File was named download and not the actual ISO name...

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @A Former User
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                                @thecreativeone91 said:

                                Business Grade connections are much better. I wouldn't consider a low end connection. It's not worth it. You get what you pay for in terms of connections. Fiber connections are generally far more reliable and have less latency than a Cable or DSL connection. It also it's a shared trunk in most cases with DSL/Cable.

                                I've seen the opposite. Business grade often has the bigger outages. The "you get what you pay for" thing isn't true in the real world. Business grade connections are mostly smoke and mirrors. They get businesses to overbuy because it sounds good. But the consumer fiber is cheaper for more. Same or lower latency, better uptime. I've never seen any business get a fiber line as good as consumer cable in the northeast even at $1,000 a month.

                                Do anything to avoid business connections. If it comes with an SLA, you are being screwed.

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller
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                                  What I've seen the most from business grade connections are days or even weeks (and in a rare care over six months) of downtime. Business grade means, normally, that you are a lone customer with little value to the ISP. When you go down, they don't care. And having that business empathy explains just about everything. You have no leverage . You just don't matter.

                                  Consumer lines when a line goes down, lots of people are down and pissed and talking about it. It's a real outage that impacts reputation and potentially legal liability. Business class lines are promoted because they, by and large, protect the ISPs from the big responsibilities.

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                                    A Former User @scottalanmiller
                                    last edited by A Former User

                                    @scottalanmiller said:

                                    What I've seen the most from business grade connections are days or even weeks (and in a rare care over six months) of downtime.

                                    I don't know what sketchy business you deal with but I've never had that happen. I've had consumer grade go down for multiple days. I've never had business fiber down past the SLAs (which is normally 1hr)

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                                      A Former User
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                                      sometimes scott lives in his own little world of absolute truths.

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller @A Former User
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                                        @thecreativeone91 said:

                                        @scottalanmiller said:

                                        What I've seen the most from business grade connections are days or even weeks (and in a rare care over six months) of downtime.

                                        I don't know what sketchy business you deal with but I've never had that happen. I've had consumer grade go down for multiple days. I've never had business fiber down past the SLAs (which is normally 1hr)

                                        I've had it from tons of carriers. Fiber, T lines, you name it. Since there is an SLA, there is no hustle. I've had carriers decide it was cheaper to never fix a line and take the permanent SLA penalty than to fix the line leaving customers with no way to cancel their service but getting no service.

                                        Remember, I've working in consulting for sixteen years so I have a pretty broad view of carriers across regions and types. Every line type can have big outages. But only SLA lines have that extra protection to keep the ISP from being seriously hurt by it.

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller @A Former User
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                                          @thecreativeone91 said:

                                          I've never had business fiber down past the SLAs (which is normally 1hr)

                                          I've had two fiber lines both down for over 72 hours.

                                          I've had transatlantic lines fail because a trench pulled up a line in Egypt.

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @A Former User
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                                            @thecreativeone91 said:

                                            I don't know what sketchy business you deal with but I've never had that happen. I've had consumer grade go down for multiple days.

                                            Likewise,what bad consumer grade carriers are you using?

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