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    Elastix or FreePBX and why?

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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller
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      It Elastix MT was dumped, which it might easily have been, this is news to me. My understanding is that it is alive and kicking, just not super popular, and being continued as a new line to run parallel to Elastix #.

      That's why the rename. So that there could be two Elastix lines without people thinking that they overlapped. The name change was specifically because it was not being dumped.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
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        Ah okay, so FreePBX is the current leader? That makes the most sense to me.

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        • DashrenderD
          Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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          @scottalanmiller said:

          @Dashrender said:

          Considering they dumped that line, all the more reason to skip right over it.

          What was dumped?

          Maybe I read to much into @JaredBusch's post (an other posts in the past) that Elastix had a failing with trying to replace the FreePBX interface with their own, and figured they'd abandoned development on it.

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          • DashrenderD
            Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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            @scottalanmiller said:

            Ah okay, so FreePBX is the current leader? That makes the most sense to me.

            Yes, I am currently downloading the ISO for FreePBX x64. I'll install it tomorrow and delete my Elastix download.

            Using this ISO should be infinitely easier to setup than the trouble I went through a few months ago installing FreePBX from scratch on C@C.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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              @Dashrender said:

              @scottalanmiller said:

              @Dashrender said:

              Considering they dumped that line, all the more reason to skip right over it.

              What was dumped?

              Maybe I read to much into @JaredBusch's post (an other posts in the past) that Elastix had a failing with trying to replace the FreePBX interface with their own, and figured they'd abandoned development on it.

              It was a failure with their customers. People were not too happy with the result (and it took forever - that's why they are in such bad shape now because they fell a year or more behind trying to get it out.)

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              • JaredBuschJ
                JaredBusch
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                What was dumped was the 2.X line in favor of the 3.0 line (now MT). But when MT failed to work for the largest portion of people actually using Elastix they had to back step and revive the 2.X line as 4.0.

                3.0 was renamed MT for a reason. That was developed for the large resellers wanting a Multi-Tenant solution. Those customers were the main paying customers to Elastix for support. Of course they were catered to. It was just unfortunate they were catered to exclusively to the detriment of the product as a whole.

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                • DanpD
                  Danp
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                  What about Incredible PBX? Is it a viable alternative?

                  Also, can any of these be run on DO with decent performance / reliability?

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                  • JaredBuschJ
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                    PBX in a Flash is a perfectly viable alternative. It has a few security tweaks that some find very nice.

                    IncrediblePBX is simply a set of scripts ran on top of a base PBX in a Flash install. It adds a lot of functionality that I personally find bloated. I want my PBX to be a PBX.

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                    • DanpD
                      Danp
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                      So is freepbx a good choice for a voip novice? Also looking for opinions on hosted vs on-premise. Am I better to spin up a vm internally or host on DO?

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                      • NetworkNerdN
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                        I'm on board with FreePBX being better than Elastix at the moment (even though my heart belongs with Elastix because that's what I learned when I first dove into VOIP). I think all of the commercial features they are offering for the latest version could be quite powerful as well if they will help your business (like Parking Pro, Endpoint Manager, Fax Pro, Q-Xact reports, etc.). Elastix had several paid add-ins too, but I don't think they have had the firepower that some of the new ones from Schmoozecom have.

                        I will say I really like the fact that in newer versions of FreePBX you have the ability to use device and user mode and can register more than one device to a single extension. I have not tried it, but I can think of many use cases for it.

                        But, I do look forward to playing around with Elastix 3 (MT) and 4 to see if Elastix can return to its former glory someday.

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                        • NetworkNerdN
                          NetworkNerd @Danp
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                          @Danp said:

                          So is freepbx a good choice for a voip novice? Also looking for opinions on hosted vs on-premise. Am I better to spin up a vm internally or host on DO?

                          Just be careful when you are talking about running something like FreePBX in-house on a VM versus with a hosting provider on a VM. There may be differences in the kernel that can cause buggy behavior in the PBX (like running Elastix on VMWare vs. Xen and call reports working in one case but not the other). It can work, but you want to test it to make sure.

                          But I'd say for a VOIP newb, FreePBX is a decent choice to dig in and start playing.

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                          • DashrenderD
                            Dashrender @NetworkNerd
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                            @NetworkNerd said:

                            @Danp said:

                            So is freepbx a good choice for a voip novice? Also looking for opinions on hosted vs on-premise. Am I better to spin up a vm internally or host on DO?

                            Just be careful when you are talking about running something like FreePBX in-house on a VM versus with a hosting provider on a VM. There may be differences in the kernel that can cause buggy behavior in the PBX (like running Elastix on VMWare vs. Xen and call reports working in one case but not the other). It can work, but you want to test it to make sure.

                            But I'd say for a VOIP newb, FreePBX is a decent choice to dig in and start playing.

                            Awesome, I'm hoping that my consultant will point things like this out to me, as well as other pitfalls that might exist.

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