On Jan 19, 2008 9:26 PM, Rob Hillis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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