i am very far away to be an expert in my experience i prefer to use a cluster of normal computers instead of an expensive one. if one go down you can trhow it and buy a new one any where very fast. using opensip and *Heartbeat* you you can have an failsafe system. dive in the mailing list archive in February a very nice user sent an email about how to do load balancing using opensip. regards David
2009/3/19 Mike <[email protected]> > Hi, > > > > I`m looking for reliable and redundant hardware for Asterisk. I`ve been > leaning towards buying one of these (HP 360 G5 with everything as redundant > as possible), which I know will be good enough for a few months before > needing to upgrade: > > > http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/en/WF05a/15351-15351-3328412-241644-241475-1121486.html > > > > Questions: > > 1) Any reason why I shouldn't? (bad past experience with HP hardware and > Asterisk for example) > > 2) Should I go Quad core or Dual-core? I will certainly go with two > processors (to start, simply for redundancy). > > 3) When installing the OS (CentOS is what I generally use) should I install > it 64 bits or 32 bits? (does it even matter for Asterisk?) > > > > I will possibly be running a very little used Apache and FTP server. The > only notable thing running with Asterisk will be MySQL for CDR and other > dialplan data. > > > > Regards, > > > > Mike > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > -- (\__/) (='.'=)This is Bunny. Copy and paste bunny into your (")_(")signature to help him gain world domination.
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