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A New Adventure: Introducing FusionPBX... again

A New Adventure: Introducing FusionPBX… again

Sunday, June 22, 2025

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It’s been almost seven years since we first looked at FusionPBX and FreeSwitch. So we’ve spent the last couple months taking a fresh look at the platform and WOW! What a difference seven years make. We will hasten to add that FusionPBX is not a platform for folks that are new to the VoIP world or networking. For those users, the various flavors of Incredible PBX including the latest Incredible PBX 2025 and Incredible PBX 2027 for Debian 11 or… Read More ›

Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Compromise All FreePBX Systems

Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Compromise All FreePBX Systems

Sunday, September 17, 2023

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If you’re a user of Asterisk® and FreePBX®, the DEFCON 31 Conference in Las Vegas did not disappoint this year. It exposed not one but three critical, unpatched vulnerabilities in affected FreePBX-based platforms that can compromise your servers in under a minute. I would hasten to add that all of these vulnerabilities were disclosed to Sangoma® months ago and remain unaddressed for months. What this meant was a hacker could easily get administrator privileges on your server with a blank… Read More ›

Our Favorite All-You-Can-Eat Deals in Cyberspace

Our Favorite All-You-Can-Eat Deals in Cyberspace

Monday, May 15, 2023

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Let’s begin with a mea culpa. We’ve been wrong on a few all-you-can-eat deals over the years including the CloudAtCost switcheroo, the Google Voice fiasco, and a few other cloud provider implosions. But our overall track record has been pretty good over the past decade, and today we have some fresh deals that are worth a careful look. We, of course, would encourage everyone to perform their own due diligence and at least acknowledge the cautionary note: "If a deal… Read More ›

The Ambidextrous Laptop: A Perfect Fit for Asterisk and VoIP

The Ambidextrous Laptop: A Perfect Fit for Asterisk and VoIP

Monday, April 10, 2023

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Until we bought a 15-inch Windows laptop with 20 gigs of RAM and a 1 terabyte NVMe SSD for under $500, we never would have considered such a computer an ideal virtual machine platform. And, to our surprise, with Windows 11 and a 4-core Ryzen 3 processor, it not only ran VirtualBox flawlessly, but Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSLg) also performed admirably.   And then we tried out the UTM virtual machine platform on one of Apple’s new MacBook… Read More ›

Sangoma Beefs Up FreePBX Security... For a Price

Sangoma Beefs Up FreePBX Security… For a Price

Monday, December 5, 2022

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We’ve lost count of the number of FreePBX® security breaches that were directly attributable to vulnerabilities in the FreePBX web interface. Suffice it to say, it was the reason that PBX in a Flash and Incredible PBX instituted the Travelin’ Man 3 firewall a decade ago hiding the FreePBX GUI from everyone except those on a whitelist controlled by the PBX administrator. More than a decade later, Sangoma® finally introduces Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) with two major gotchas. First, you have… Read More ›

Black Friday Tip: August Door Locks Have No Competition

Black Friday Tip: August Door Locks Have No Competition

Monday, November 14, 2022

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We do a considerable amount of traveling so electronic door locks are a must if you want the flexibility of sharing your home or letting a neighbor in when something comes unglued… or leaks. There’s no shortage of options if you do a quick scan of Amazon’s offerings. But, if you already have a deadbolt on your door, there’s one that stands head and shoulders above the competition. The August Smartlock + WiFi Bridge checks all the must-have’s. It’s an… Read More ›

Happy Fourth: Our Gift to You -- 17+ Years of Nerd Vittles

Happy Fourth: Our Gift to You — 17+ Years of Nerd Vittles

Monday, July 4, 2022

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$300 Chromebook Faceoff: ARM vs. x86? Which Is Better? Introducing Incredible PBX 2022 for the Raspberry Pi Oracle Cloud: Grab a Free Incredible PBX Cloud Server for Life Systems Integration and Public Participation with FreePBX A Walk on the Wild Side: Meet Incredible PBX for MX Linux Deal of the Year: OBi2182 Color WiFi Phones now $59.99 Interconnecting Asterisk Servers with PJsip and OpenVPN Migrating Incredible PBX 2022 to a PUBLIC-Facing Cloud PBX It’s Debian 11, Asterisk 19, & FreePBX… Read More ›

Migrating Incredible PBX 2022 to a PUBLIC-Facing Cloud PBX

Migrating Incredible PBX 2022 to a PUBLIC-Facing Cloud PBX

Monday, April 25, 2022

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Today we want to show you how to reconfigure Incredible PBX 2022 for Rocky 8 into a PUBLIC-facing Cloud PBX. What that means is authorized users can connect a SIP phone to the PBX regardless of where the user might be located without worries about an ever-changing dynamic IP address and the requirement to whitelist the new IP address. A PUBLIC-facing PBX also provides free SIP URI connectivity to users of your PBX by anyone from anywhere in the world.… Read More ›

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