[Freeswitch-users] Hardware - PC vs blackbox vs server

[mazilo]

ocset wrote:
> My concern is that a standard PC is not meant to be left running 24/7 
> (reliability) while a server may be too expensive and large for the task?
These days, a standard PC is very reliable to run on 24/7, AFAICT. The
problem using a standard PC as a server for personal use is nothing, but a
waste in electricity, especially if the standard PC is a multi-core CPUs
system and the services it provides use less than 2% CPU + system resources.
These days, an ARM driven Linux embedded system clocked @800+ MHz with at
least 64MB RAM + a USB2 port can easily be turned into a server to host FS +
among other things. In your case, you can setup any inexpensive 
http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&gcx=c&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=PogoPlug#q=PogoPlug&hl=en&prmd=imvnsr&source=univ&tbm=shop&tbo=u&sa=X&ei=T4SEToGyBcmftge40pEs&ved=0CGYQrQQ&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=6262a56e37f57306&biw=1050&bih=869
PogoPlug  device to host your FS and it will easily handle 20 concurrent
calls sans transcodings, AFAICT. Adding some 
http://www.amazon.com/OBi110-Service-Bridge-Telephone-Adapter/dp/B0045RMEPI
Obi-110  devices as extensions to your FS, you can have a bridge between
your VoIP and PSTN lines. For me, my FS is for personal use with no more
than five concurrent calls sans transcodings.

For me, I have my FS + among other things hosted on a Seagate 
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/network_storage/freeagent_dockstar
DockStar  running on an  http://openwrt.org OpenWRT  OS and it works
flawlessly. Friends say their  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_A_Watt
Kill-A-Watt  device shows a Seagate 
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/network_storage/freeagent_dockstar
DockStar  (with an external USB card reader + an 8GB SDHC card) alone
consumes a little less than 3 Watts of electricity. On idle, FS uses no more
than 6% CPU resources on my server. This got me thinking, perhaps I should
let my main NAT/Firewall router (an old and discontinued Netgear 
http://support.netgear.com/app/products/model/a_id/2598 WGT634U ) to host my
FS. The only problem I found is FS will take about 24 minutes from the
moment I flip the switch to turn on my router before it is ready to serve
calls.

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FreeSWITCH hosted on a Seagate DockStar with OpenWRT and ONLY consumes 3 Watts of electricity.
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