On premise hardware, build or buy a pre built

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Hello,

I currently use an online PBX service and my set ups are temporary and i have spent alot of money with that other PBX provider to do mostly internal calls via extension. I do not do long term install or sales of equipment. I currently have FreePBX hosted on a cloud server to test and play around with be for i make purchase hardware. my question is would you build out your own 1-2u server or would you but a premade one from sangoma/clearlyip? 100-200 extensions will be used on this device and it will sit in a data center away from the light of day.

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What would be your upfront and monthly cost of yor colo’ed service compared with your current cloud service?
Most good cloud servers can be dynamically dimensioned.

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We still have space in the data center, so there’s no real cost there. the could service i am using i can upgrade the service but “Downgrading is currently not supported”. There may be months on end that my PBX may not be used, that’s why i’m looking at hardware, if i spend 2-3k on hardware it will last 5+ year and my ROI would be less then 1 year

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My choice, at Digital Ocean you can size your machine down to $8 per month for an intel nvme droplet.

crank it up to 4cpus 8gb memory for $64 when you need it , snapshots are cheap, floating IP’s and storage well priced.

You can script all that with their doctl API

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Gotcha, I’ll have to look into them. Any issues when doing that and downsizing the drive side from 240 gb to 35 with any loss of data or issues? With 8gb and 4 cpus how many extensions/concurrent calls will that handle?

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Vultr is another good option, atleast I’ve been running several FreePBX instances with them for a couple of years now without any problems.

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I don’t think you can downsize the harddrive at DO, but 35 gb is effing hue for storage and external strage is $10. per 100gb

8gb and 4cpus can handle hundreds oif calls but traditionally 300 extensions will only need 10% usage until you get an earthquake :wink:

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That’s where i am hosted now but you are not able to downgrade, only upgrade

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I normally have about 100-125 CC at a time, i was going to send you a DM to explain more since i dont put my business out there but it seems like you can not do that on this platform.

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doctl completion

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Yes Vultr is good and not too expensive. I’m using two servers right now.