I was provided with PDU remote access so I can reboot the server that way.

@JaredBusch said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:

@scottalanmiller said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:

@JaredBusch said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:

@scottalanmiller said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:

For those wondering like @BRRABill the storage instances are MORE available now than two weeks ago and here are the prices:

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I believe that @BRRABill actually contact them last week and was told that they were phasing the storage instances out. Someone needs to contact again and verify.

I did. I followed up and was told that that was not true and that the channel that he used for support did not exist and they wanted names and links of how he was told that because he was told via chat and officially they have no chat support.

Since then, they've added two more sites for options that were sold out when he had asked.

Good to hear. Now I want backups on those, which is not available.
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@BRRABill and I had long discussions about why those aren't available. If you extrapolate the backup costs from their non-storage devices, the cost of backing up these VMs would easily be greater than the cost of the VMs themselves. I think that they rightfully guessed that no one would pay for that. If you want a backup of them, buy another Vultr storage VM and backup to that. Or backup to S3/B2 or something.

It would be awesome if they integrated a backup service, I agree. But it would have to be a special offering for those and I think that it makes sense that it's not offered - seems like a wise business move.

Location matters very little. I would stick to the standards.

I've posted to Kopano's community to make sure that they can look into addressing this issue.

https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/how-to-install-invoice-ninja-on-centos-7/

@stacksofplates said in Snap, Flatpak or App image what are their pros and cons?:

@scottalanmiller said in Snap, Flatpack or App image what are their pros and cons?:

@stacksofplates said in Snap, Flatpack or App image what are their pros and cons?:

I want to clarify. When I say they just aren't there yet, I mean they aren't there as the cross platform solution. They do awesome stuff, but I don't think we have a clear cross platform solution yet.

Snap "works" in Fedora, but requires setting SELinux to permissive, so I'm not sure if that counts as working.

Flatpack only works with GUIs.

I don't know anything about AppImage but from what I've seen it's easier to run, but less isolating (secure).

I'm not sure how much of the goal(s) are security versus just replacing traditional linked dependency deployments with self contained ones.

They really tout it as a big thing. The first page on the Snap website has a whole section dedicated to Snaps being read only with dedicated storage for more security.

Flatpak also mentions it in a called out section on their site. (Realized I was spelling it wrong ha.)

True, they do mention it a bit. Seems like such an odd thing for them to care about. I mean, it's nice that they make part of it read only but... who cares? The big deal is the packaging. All the rest is just distraction.

@Romo said in Freepbx- Troubleshooting outgoing calls (Call hangups when other side answers):

@scottalanmiller said in Freepbx- Troubleshooting outgoing calls (Call hangups when other side answers):

@Romo said in Freepbx- Troubleshooting outgoing calls (Call hangups when other side answers):

@scottalanmiller said in Freepbx- Troubleshooting outgoing calls (Call hangups when other side answers):

Why is Speex appearing in your voice path? Set all devices to g711 u-Law.

So that did it, just removed speex from the allowed codecs and calls are terminating properly.

That's what I figured. Somehow it was getting priority on one of the legs and that was causing it to need to transcode, which should work in theory, but you don't want in reality.

Why would it take priority if it was the last codec setup. I had it like this

allow=ulaw,alaw,gsm,speex

THe phone might be set to take it first, if allowed.

This is the register process that appears in the cli

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@Breffni-Potter I didn't find it over priced, 8 dollars for the month I was going to use seemed pretty good to me. Care to share other products similar to it, I'd love to test others.

@Romo said in Lookin for best method to create a network bridge CentOS 7:

@stacksofplates Another quick question, it is better to create the bridge from the os network utils instead of relying in virtmanager to create it right?

That all depends. Macvtap is quick and dirty. Also has the benefits of not allowing network access between the host and VMs (can be a benefit or a hindrance depending on your scenario). If you want Full access across the bridge, then you'll have to manually create it.

@Romo said in What is the best way to deploy Linux desktops?:

@stacksofplates said in What is the best way to deploy Linux desktops?:

@Romo said in What is the best way to deploy Linux desktops?:

@stacksofplates said in What is the best way to deploy Linux desktops?:

@Romo said in What is the best way to deploy Linux desktops?:

@stacksofplates said in What is the best way to deploy Linux desktops?:

@Romo said in What is the best way to deploy Linux desktops?:

@coliver said in What is the best way to deploy Linux desktops?:

Ansible or kickstart files could go a long way to automating the process. So if you ever have to deploy more its just dropping it into the environment without touching it again.

Can I use Kickstart with Debian base distros?

Debian has preseed and I've never used it. Kickstarts are great because you can do a lot with your post install. It's essentially a big shell script. So you can update, configure users, make config backups, etc.

Is it worth to learn about preseeding in this case or using something like Clonezilla would be better in your opinion @stacksofplates

That's a tough one. I really know nothing about preseeds. However, if I had to make a guess, I would think it would be much easier to use those than to Clonezilla everything. Preseeds would allow you to have different configs for different systems. I can't imagine using Clonezilla for 30 machines. I can do 30 machines at once with kickstart configs (using pxe). Using a disk, I can start the kickstart on one machine, and then take the same disk and go to the next machine, etc.

I'll try to research more about preseeds then, by the way using Clonezilla SE you can PXE the image to several computers at the same time.

True, but how do you set hostnames, IP addresses, etc?

Ip addresses won't be trouble since my machines are using dhcp but hostnames indeed would be trouble. I have been reading that I am going to need to use a simple kickstart file plus the preseed file in order to deploy debian based distros.

How are different hostnames set when using kickstart?

They are assigned in the kickstart config for each machine. What we did was write a bash script that takes the hostnames, IPs, disk sizes, etc from a table, adds the package list and post install script and generates the kickstart config from that. Then when you boot the machine from the disc, you give it the http address of the kickstart config and it pulls everything in and starts imaging. It takes about 15 mins to kickstart a workstation. Less for the server since they're minimal.

@mkoestesur said in Stratoscale, any opinions about it?:

Ones you try it you will never want anything else.

What aspects of it do you like?

@coliver said in Troubleshooting SIP connection to Remote PBX:

@JaredBusch said in Troubleshooting SIP connection to Remote PBX:

@Romo said in Troubleshooting SIP connection to Remote PBX:

@scottalanmiller Doesn't it do that because iOS doesnt allow any UDP connection in the background? Wouldn't TCP work better in mobiles in order to save battery as well?

ZoIPer has an OMFG kill my battery setting to force it to keep registration in the background.

Which is a good idea to turn off... That thing will eat through your battery in a few hours.

It is off by default, but for people who want a softphone on their iPhone to always be on and registered it is an great option.

@wirestyle22 Great!!