On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 06:54:46PM +0000, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Senad Jordanovic wrote:
>
> > And yes, running the whole thing from standard PC based "desktop" will
> > eventually cause issues hence an solid state appliance is a way to go :)
>
> My gripe is that I think people try to put too much into a system, don't
> have a "server build and operation" head, and are basically OK with
> rebooting because maybe that's what they're used to... And maybe they just
> don't have enough customers that whinge loudly enough when things stop
> working :)
>
> Personally I don't think an "appliance" ought to be running SQL. I don't
> think it should have it's own billing platform either (Although make the
> call logs available by all means!), nor should it have a built-in CRM
> solution. Don't use agi, external scripts where dialplan will do, and so
> on.
Right. And mysql is the thing that will cause Asterisk to crash?
> As for prime-time? I think the answer is "yes, but..." You need reliable
> hardware, customised software, not generic (Cuscom compiled Linux kernel,
> distribution, asterisk, etc.),
Actually distros do a relatively good job with kernels. While there is a
room for improvments, there is also where to go badly downhill.
What customizations do you set to a custom kernel?
I've seen strange things being done by (most typically) Gentoo users.
If not every release of Asterisk is solid enough and you must use a
custom build just to get a stable (read: non-crashing) system, then I
would agree with the OP that Asterisk is not ready for prime-time. This
is because the support costs are too high.
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