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.
Brian Foster
Endigo Computer LLC
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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.For example: I'm running Fedora 14 x64 w/8gig memory and several terabytes disk storageIt'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 $400For Freeswitch it might be useful to state estimated call volume per hour and number of simultaneous calls and desired features,-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Hardware build recommendations
From: curriegrad2004 <curriegrad2004@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, June 08, 2012 2:02 pm
To: FreeSWITCH Users Help <freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org>
Try aiming for a 64-bit OS if you could. For the OpenVPN part, if you
could shoot for a Sandy Bridge or later CPU you'd probably find the
AES-NI part of the CPU quite suitable. If you're on a budget you can
always certainly aim for an AMD E-350 or something along the lines of
that. Plenty of CPU power for SOHO boxes.
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Brian Foster <bdfoster@endigotech.com> wrote:
> Raspberry Pi?
>
> Shoot for 1.6 ghz dual core with 1gb memory, 2 NICs. That should be overkill
> (engineering translation: bare minimum).
>
> Brian Foster
> Endigo Computer LLC
>
> Sent from a mobile device.
>
> On Jun 8, 2012 2:35 PM, "Timothy Bolton" <ifoundthetao@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas for a good hardware build for a SOHO server?
>>
>> Here's what I'd like running on it: OpenVPN, FreeSWITCH, and a firewall
>> (probably pfSense).
>>
>> My home network doesn't have too much traffic, and I don't get that many
>> calls.
>>
>> --
>> 'We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals.'
>> Quarry Worker's Creed
>>
>>
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>>
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>>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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_________________________________________________________________________
Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services:
consulting@freeswitch.org
http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
FreeSWITCH-powered IP PBX: The CudaTel Communication Server
http://www.cudatel.com
Official FreeSWITCH Sites
http://www.freeswitch.org
http://wiki.freeswitch.org
http://www.cluecon.com
Join Us At ClueCon - Aug 7-9, 2012
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_________________________________________________________________________
Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services:
consulting@freeswitch.org
http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
FreeSWITCH-powered IP PBX: The CudaTel Communication Server
http://www.cudatel.com
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http://www.freeswitch.org
http://wiki.freeswitch.org
http://www.cluecon.com
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