asterisk users - Jun 2009 - HW recommendations for small, cheap, reliable server

To support small biz, family.

Have a bunch of old clunker boxes on the scrap heap that would
probably do the job as a server.  But I'm not confident
they would be reliable enough.

Capable of supporting maximum of a dozen 2-line ATAs.

Don't want to spend more than a couple hundred dollars
on a new server box.


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Drew Einhorn
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On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:03 PM, drew einhorn<drew.einhorn at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Have a bunch of old clunker boxes on the scrap heap that would
> probably do the job as a server.? But I'm not confident
> they would be reliable enough.
>
> Capable of supporting maximum of a dozen 2-line ATAs.
Spend the money on a 1-port digium T1 card, and get a T1 service if
you're looking for 'better than scrap heap' reliability. A dozen
ATAs
doesn't sound like a winning approach when it comes to complexity.

On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, drew einhorn wrote:
> To support small biz, family.
>
> Have a bunch of old clunker boxes on the scrap heap that would
> probably do the job as a server.  But I'm not confident
> they would be reliable enough.
>
> Capable of supporting maximum of a dozen 2-line ATAs.
>
> Don't want to spend more than a couple hundred dollars
> on a new server box.
You class 24 staff as a "small biz" and don't want to spend more
than a
couple hundred dollars on a phone system?

Good luck with your business.

Gordon