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[atsak]

Historically I've built Incredible PBX (2025) on Digital ocean droplets. I noticed in some situations there's a race condition and asterisk stops answering calls when the node gets a little busy that it's hosted on and it can't get enough CPU resources. I've moved this to dedicated CPU instances which seems to have fixed it, but it's expensive around $100 a month or something. It's mostly a problem in Toronto and NYC it seems.

In practice, is anyone out there running a slightly busier PBX (ie maybe a hundred or more calls a day) that they're sure isn't refusing calls (carriers tell me there's just no answer to the invite, but it's not a firewall issue, I can see the traffic pass to asterisk but it doesn't answer) and uses a cloud provider? Which ones?

Thanks.

 

[wardmundy]

Never had or heard of a problem with CrownCloud.

 

[atsak]

Never had or heard of a problem with CrownCloud.

Thanks - for this application Atlanta might work , also checking something in Canada maybe Montreal or Toronto.

 

[wardmundy]

Thanks - for this application Atlanta might work , also checking something in Canada maybe Montreal or Toronto.

Atlanta is an awesome site that is right beside the internet backbone. It also happened to be a block from my old office. Let me know if you have any issues. They are great guys to work with. They even host a couple of our older ISOs.

 

[Halea]

You might want to consider a VPS at a data center in Buffalo. Most data centers over there are relatively recent with equally recent hardware and not heavily saturated. Plus it would probably give you better ping times.
That said my approach is to double up the CPU and RAM requirements without going for dedicated CPUs. The extra resource allows to go over the bumps when the actual hardware is too stressed.
Also, are you sure that your PBX is not doing some media conversion ?