I am using Freepbx ver.2.10 and asterisk 1.8.7.2 on my small office system. Indeed 1.6 was probable more stable but 1.8 is now stable and working well (as least for me). I'm not into 1.10 and won't be using it in production any time soon.
My favourite distro is PIAF (pbx in a flash) or AsteriskNow Henry On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Reza - Voipernetics <[email protected]>wrote: > I agree with what Phil has mentioned. In my opinion - if you don't need > the fancy features of 10.x (aka Asterisk 1.10.x) stick to Asterisk 1.8 or > older. However - I would recommend anyone to stay away from any variant of > 1.8 or 10.x where possible. > > We process over a million minutes per month per server, exceeding 400K > calls per server in a given month. Many moons ago, as soon as 1.8 was > released, we jumped from 1.4 to 1.8 - and it was a huge mistake. Asterisk > service crashed with dead locks within the first few thousand calls. > > We downgraded from 1.8 to 1.6. We found that Asterisk 1.6.2.17 (plus > certain patches) -- was the most successful and stable deployment, capable > of handling 100+ simultaneous calls per server. > Handling about 100+ calls per server on Asterisk 1.8.x.x and Asterisk 10 > -- killed Asterisk within hours. The primary cause is dead locks. The > stats I presented is that of a production deployment. > > If stability and high availability is your primary focus - then I would > say stick to version 1.6.2.17. > > If your client is "ok" with a reboot or two every week - then 1.8 should > be ok. > > Overall - we have been testing all versions of Asterisk - as they are > released by deploying them as production. > All servers monitor each others availability by means of an actual sip > call - server to server. > > In our production scenario - we keep a hot standby servers with version > 1.6.2.17 ready, > while we route calls to the server with a newly released 1.8.x.x or 10.x.x > within the production environment. > As soon as 1.8.x.x or 10.x.x fails and/or enters into a dead lock - hot > standby 1.6.2.17 starts processing calls. > > To date, we've had 100% failure with 1.8.x.x and 10.x.x within a 24 hour > period, prior to having processed 10K calls. > As soon as a dead lock is confirmed, we downgraded the recent version back > to 1.6.2.17. > > Therefore - in an ITSP scenario, or in a scenario where you are processing > calls in the thousands - definitely stay away from 1.8.x.x and 10.x.x and > stick to 1.6.2.17 (with certain security patches). > > I would LOVE to hear from anyone out there - processing the volume we are > handling (or more), in an Asterisk environment -- using 1.8.x.x or 10.x.x > versions of Asterisk. > > Thanks and regards, > Reza. > > -- > FOUNDER & SR. TELECOM ANALYST > VOIPERNETICS COMMUNICATIONS > NATION WIDE DIDS, SIP TRUNKS & VOIP 911. > PARTIAL / FULL VIRTUAL PRI - NO CONTRACTS! > HOSTED PBX & TERMINATION SERVICES. > TEL: 647-476-2067 > > > Philip Mullis wrote the following on 8/7/2012 10:42 PM: > >> Asterisk 10 has a number of major improvements as several things where >> rewritten, it has extended support for a wider range of codes lots of focus >> on the hd stuff, better performance and stability. It now also supports >> video conferencing more extensively and has a new conference application >> all together that no longer requires the use of the dahdi timer. >> >> FreePBX is used by loads of people, its great for people that want a gui, >> however big note to self there.. you have to button it up/make it safe. >> There have been a massive amount of boxes hacked over the years with things >> like freepbx/trixbox etc.. installed on them because they where not >> buttoned up so to say :) >> >> In a small office environment your not really going to see any killer >> differences with 1.8/1.10 unless you get into conferencing/ alternate >> codecs. >> >> Hope that helps. >> >> Regards >> >> Philip Mullis >> >> >> >> On 08/07/2012 10:22 PM, Steven McCann wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I'm setting up a new phone system for a small organization (about 15 >>> extensions). I'm using the FreePBX distro. There is two main versions of >>> the FreePBX distro out right now - one with Asterisk 1.8, and one with >>> 1.10. >>> >>> I'm curious if there are any pros/cons to deploying 1.10 VS 1.8? 1.10 >>> sounds like it may have some fancy new features, however 1.8 I think is >>> an >>> LTS release.. >>> >>> Does anyone have any experience with 1.8 VS 1.10 or even just with >>> FreePBX? >>> Any advice or feedback? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Steve >>> >>> >> >> ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- * ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * *Mr. Henry L. Coleman * * *
