Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX
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@jaredbusch said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
With the new auto updater, I think it will honestly remove all need for monthly maintenance. Moving service to a break/fix model only. So then you end up with a cost of only $6 per month and 20 phones costing basically nothing at $0.30 per extension.
I'm kind of nervous about the auto-updater. Although it hasn't happened to me yet (knock on wood), I have read stories on the FreePBX forums where an update breaks something horribly. I normally at least read through the forums to see if any recent module update breaks anything.
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@fuznutz04 said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
@jaredbusch said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
With the new auto updater, I think it will honestly remove all need for monthly maintenance. Moving service to a break/fix model only. So then you end up with a cost of only $6 per month and 20 phones costing basically nothing at $0.30 per extension.
I'm kind of nervous about the auto-updater. Although it hasn't happened to me yet (knock on wood), I have read stories on the FreePBX forums where an update breaks something horribly. I normally at least read through the forums to see if any recent module update breaks anything.
Vultr snapshots has saved me countless times since I started messing around with FreePBX.
For that reason if you have s few clients (not sure if that is your situation) deploying MT really makes all the sense in the world. You can easily scale it to a redundant multi-server deployment if you are worried about uptime. But really that's more for hundreds of tenants and thousands of endpoints.
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@bigbear said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
@dashrender This is my immediate thesis, I will be sure to share any pros/cons that come from real world use.
1.) Freeswitch is faster and IMHO better than Asterisk. Just park a call and pick it back up for a real world example.
I never have a problem wit this functionality in FreePBX. It used to be not fun (transfer to parking ext and wait to hear feedback), but that was fixed a long time ago.
2.) FusionPBX is multi-tenant, rebrandable, true open source. Can run a simple single server install and be expanded to multiple servers. No licenses or add on modules. True FOSS.
MT and rebrandable have nothing to do with FOSS. They are neat features, but hardly important to most people that want a PBX. The call framework for both FusionPBX (FreeSwitch) and FreePBX (Asterisk) is open source. It is quite true that FreePBX adds a lot of closed source pieces on top.
3.) I get mod_sofia instead of pjsip, and I ditch all my yealink ghost transfer and ghost call issues.
There are zero issues with this if you program the phone correctly. It is a single line in the config. It only took me a couple hours of email support with Yealink to find the cause. I cannot believe no one has ever done it. Instead the only public knowledge on this issue was to block it at the firewall. So fucking stupid.
4.) Better provisioning and its also free. Using Yealink RPS and FusionPBX provisioning you can drop ship a phone to your customer and it will automatically configure itself out of the box.
You can also have a Yealink customer default their existing phone and Yealink RPS will send it new provisioning info when it reboots. So even a customer switching to you with existing phones could default their phones and be up on their new system with you instantly.
Yealink RPS is not easily available and restricts you to only buying from certain suppliers that can offer RPS devices. For my clients, that is a no go. They don't individually buy enough devices to even waste the time setting up accounts. I don't sell hardware.
But if you do have Yealink RPS, you can easily point it to your FreePBX install. I code my Yelaink config files by hand, because it is faster for me to do it that way. But for the lone admin, the paid Endpoint manager works well. That is who it is designed for.
Also FusionPBX has templates for all major brands and models for easy provisioning.
These are there in the paid module see the above answer.
4.) No banner ads for SIP Station, Proprietary phone hardware or links that would otherwise send your customers around you to Sangoma.
I don't get how this is even an issue. It is annoying, sure, but pointing customers to Sangoma? No one sees this except the admin.
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Make changes int FreePBX and when you hit apply watch the CPU with HTOP or top.
Its been some years since I've been on FreePBX but last time I did that it had very high CPU usage enough to interrupt the call for a minute or two. The system only had 10 extensions.I would be curious about someone trying this test on current FreePBX systems. To see if this is still happening.
Try the same test on FusionPBX and you are not going to see a large CPU spike. Even if you had 5000 extensions or more.
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@markjcrane said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
Make changes int FreePBX and when you hit apply watch the CPU with HTOP or top.
Its been some years since I've been on FreePBX but last time I did that it had very high CPU usage enough to interrupt the call for a minute or two. The system only had 10 extensions.I would be curious about someone trying this test on current FreePBX systems. To see if this is still happening.
Try the same test on FusionPBX and you are not going to see a large CPU spike. Even if you had 5000 extensions or more.
The single vCPU spikes up and down as I would expect. I have never had a call interrupted.
But the point here is to talk about systems without bias. Please do not turn this into a bashing conversation.
If you dig through threads around here, you will see that while I highly recommend FreePBX, I am far from a fanboy.
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@jaredbusch said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
@markjcrane said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
Make changes int FreePBX and when you hit apply watch the CPU with HTOP or top.
Its been some years since I've been on FreePBX but last time I did that it had very high CPU usage enough to interrupt the call for a minute or two. The system only had 10 extensions.I would be curious about someone trying this test on current FreePBX systems. To see if this is still happening.
Try the same test on FusionPBX and you are not going to see a large CPU spike. Even if you had 5000 extensions or more.
The single vCPU spikes up and down as I would expect. I have never had a call interrupted.
But the point here is to talk about systems without bias. Please do not turn this into a bashing conversation.
If you dig through threads around here, you will see that while I highly recommend FreePBX, I am far from a fanboy.
I wouldn't mind seeing both sides list their perceived pros and cons and then putting them to the test. This kind of thing wasn't even possible before as the only option anyone considered was FreePBX. I thought maybe with a lot of support we could get someone to open source their PBX product, and FusionPBX was just waiting to be reconsidered.
I am sure there are issues and caveats on both sides. The fact that we can at least now compare 2 options is a big improvement IMO.
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@bigbear said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
@jaredbusch said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
@markjcrane said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
Make changes int FreePBX and when you hit apply watch the CPU with HTOP or top.
Its been some years since I've been on FreePBX but last time I did that it had very high CPU usage enough to interrupt the call for a minute or two. The system only had 10 extensions.I would be curious about someone trying this test on current FreePBX systems. To see if this is still happening.
Try the same test on FusionPBX and you are not going to see a large CPU spike. Even if you had 5000 extensions or more.
The single vCPU spikes up and down as I would expect. I have never had a call interrupted.
But the point here is to talk about systems without bias. Please do not turn this into a bashing conversation.
If you dig through threads around here, you will see that while I highly recommend FreePBX, I am far from a fanboy.
I wouldn't mind seeing both sides list their perceived pros and cons and then putting them to the test. This kind of thing wasn't even possible before as the only option anyone considered was FreePBX. I thought maybe with a lot of support we could get someone to open source their PBX product, and FusionPBX was just waiting to be reconsidered.
This would be a good thing. Probably better to have a thread dedicated to each purpose.
I am sure there are issues and caveats on both sides. The fact that we can at least now compare 2 options is a big improvement IMO.
You will not get a single argument from me on that.
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@jaredbusch said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
But the point here is to talk about systems without bias. Please do not turn this into a bashing conversation.
The point was not to bash FreePBX or Asterisk it was fun for the year that I used them. I credit both for getting me started in open source telephony. Before that I was introduced to VoIP by Cisco Call Manager, and Microsoft Net Meeting.
There were points brought up about differences and this is one of them or at least used to be. Haven't installed FreePBX for several years so it may or may not be valid now. Which is why I asked someone to give it a try...
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@markjcrane said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:
Make changes int FreePBX and when you hit apply watch the CPU with HTOP or top.
Its been some years since I've been on FreePBX but last time I did that it had very high CPU usage enough to interrupt the call for a minute or two. The system only had 10 extensions.I would be curious about someone trying this test on current FreePBX systems. To see if this is still happening.
Try the same test on FusionPBX and you are not going to see a large CPU spike. Even if you had 5000 extensions or more.
It has load for sure. But definitely doesn't last a minute.
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As far as many comments about redundancy and not all eggs in one basket. Just need to have a backup system that runs a nightly backup and restore script to another server or two. Setting up a server cluster is also possible for both systems.
