<p>Well his calls per hour are probably irrelevent. Probably much less than one. Many of us (including myself) have production servers and use a home server as a dev machine (which has a ton of other stuff running on it). Freeswitch, OpenVPN, pfsense, etc are all pretty easy to deal with on a home server. Its when you get things like mythtv-backend, Subsonic, etc. that you can easily get in trouble with. I've got an old Dell Precision 490 (ok maybe 5 years old) w/ a Intel Xeon 5150 and 1GB of ram that runs gnome, mythtv-backend, OpenVPN, FS, Subsonic, MediaTomb, 2 websites, a file server, and ZNC and it runs pretty well. there's even a few MySQL databases. Load avg probably hovers at around 0.25 for the most part.</p>
<p>Brian Foster<br>
Endigo Computer LLC</p>
<p>Sent from a mobile device.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 9, 2012 2:00 PM, <<a href="mailto:toddb@toddbailey.net" target="_blank">toddb@toddbailey.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana"><div>I'm not expert on this topic but I think to get a more accurate answer you you provide more detail on the the box is going to be use for. Dedicated or shared usage.</div>
<div><br></div><div>For example: I'm running Fedora 14 x64 w/8gig memory and several terabytes disk storage</div><div>It's a dual proc w/ 2x Intel 5160 (dual core) 3ghz (HP x8400 workstation system board transplanted into a server chassis). I'm using it as home based media server with 4 clients (DVR& Music), a database, email,web file server. I just added Freeswitch and see little impact to resources. My cost off ebay was about $400</div>
<div><br></div><div>For Freeswitch it might be useful to state estimated call volume per hour and number of simultaneous calls and desired features, <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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-------- Original Message --------<br>
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Hardware build recommendations<br>
From: curriegrad2004 <<a href="mailto:curriegrad2004@gmail.com" target="_blank">curriegrad2004@gmail.com</a>><br>
Date: Fri, June 08, 2012 2:02 pm<br>
To: FreeSWITCH Users Help <<a href="mailto:freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org</a>><br>
<br>
Try aiming for a 64-bit OS if you could. For the OpenVPN part, if you<br>
could shoot for a Sandy Bridge or later CPU you'd probably find the<br>
AES-NI part of the CPU quite suitable. If you're on a budget you can<br>
always certainly aim for an AMD E-350 or something along the lines of<br>
that. Plenty of CPU power for SOHO boxes.<br>
<br>
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Brian Foster <<a href="mailto:bdfoster@endigotech.com" target="_blank">bdfoster@endigotech.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Raspberry Pi?<br>
><br>
> Shoot for 1.6 ghz dual core with 1gb memory, 2 NICs. That should be overkill<br>
> (engineering translation: bare minimum).<br>
><br>
> Brian Foster<br>
> Endigo Computer LLC<br>
><br>
> Sent from a mobile device.<br>
><br>
> On Jun 8, 2012 2:35 PM, "Timothy Bolton" <<a href="mailto:ifoundthetao@gmail.com" target="_blank">ifoundthetao@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Does anyone have any ideas for a good hardware build for a SOHO server?<br>
>><br>
>> Here's what I'd like running on it: OpenVPN, FreeSWITCH, and a firewall<br>
>> (probably pfSense).<br>
>><br>
>> My home network doesn't have too much traffic, and I don't get that many<br>
>> calls.<br>
>><br>
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