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One Minute Wonder: It's Incredible PBX for Proxmox 7

One Minute Wonder: It’s Incredible PBX for Proxmox 7

Monday, May 8, 2023

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What a difference a decade makes! We haven’t spent much time with Proxmox for well over a decade so we decided to experiment with a new server and the latest Proxmox 7.4 release to see how things have changed. And it was quite a surprise. Not only has the hardware footprint changed dramatically, but the Proxmox software itself is like a new animal. If you haven’t explored Proxmox lately, we would encourage you to give it a careful look before… Read More ›

Introducing Incredible PBX 2025 with Asterisk 22 and FreePBX 17

Introducing Incredible PBX 2025 with Asterisk 22 and FreePBX 17

Friday, January 17, 2025

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We’re two weeks late, but here’s a belated Happy New Year 2025 with an all-new Incredible PBX release. And we’re two days early celebrating the 20th birthday of Nerd Vittles. The good news is the hits keep coming thanks again to the yeoman’s work of Joe McConnaughey, aka @kenn10. The new Incredible PBX 2025 offering incorporates the latest releases of Asterisk® and FreePBX®. Better yet, it offers a choice of Linux platforms including Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and… Read More ›

Introducing Incredible PBX 2024 with Asterisk 21 and FreePBX 17

Introducing Incredible PBX 2024 with Asterisk 21 and FreePBX 17

Monday, August 19, 2024

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We don’t often celebrate New Year’s Day in August, but 2024 is different. And the hits keep coming thanks to the yeoman’s work of Joe McConnaughey, aka @kenn10. We finally have a new Incredible PBX 2024 offering that incorporates the latest releases of Asterisk® and FreePBX®. Better yet, it offers a choice of Linux platforms including Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Debian 12. While the choice is yours to make, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is a platform no-brainer for… Read More ›

Incredible VMware Deal: Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro Free for Personal Use

Incredible VMware Deal: Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro Free for Personal Use

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

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In case you missed it, Broadcom purchased VMware® from Dell in late 2023 for $61 billion. While pricing for commercial licenses went up, the good news for hobbyists is that Broadcom immediately rebranded VMware Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro for Macs as free offerings for personal use. While open source virtual machine platforms have dominated the marketplace over the past few years, if you fall into the personal use group, then this is a deal you can’t refuse. That’s not… Read More ›

Electric Vehicles 101: 2024 EV Buyers' and Owners' Guide

Electric Vehicles 101: 2024 EV Buyers’ and Owners’ Guide

Sunday, March 3, 2024

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We’ve put this Electric Vehicle Guide together for those just getting their feet wet in the EV world. But we think you’ll find a few golden nuggets even if you’re a die hard EV owner like us. Our EV adventure began in 2016 with the purchase of a Tesla Model S with Full Self-Driving (FSD) after Elon Musk’s video was released showing his Tesla driving him to work hands-free and dropping him off at the front door of the office… Read More ›

Introducing OSS Endpoint Manager for FreePBX 16 & Incredible PBX 2027

Introducing OSS Endpoint Manager for FreePBX 16 & Incredible PBX 2027

Thursday, February 1, 2024

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If you’ve been searching for a free, open source provisioning system for your SIP telephones and you’re using Incredible PBX 2027 or other FreePBX® 16 platforms, your prayers have been answered thanks to the hard work of Bill Simon. What this buys you (for free) is a quick way to configure SIP devices from most of the major players shown above including Aastra, AudioCodes, Cisco, Linksys, CloudTC, Digium, Grandstream, Intelbras, Mitel, Norphonic, Patton, Polycom, Snom, Thomson, Unidata, Xorcom, and Yealink.… Read More ›

5 Minute PBX With Any Virtual Machine

5 Minute PBX With Any Virtual Machine

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

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For those with an existing virtual machine platform either at home or at the office, today is your lucky day. We have an Incredible PBX image for VirtualBox, VMware, Proxmox, Windows WSL, Mac UTM, and Linux Containers LXC that will have an Asterisk® PBX with FreePBX® up and running in less than 5 minutes. If you’ve ever wanted to kick the tires on a fully-loaded, secure PBX that offers virtually every telephony feature on the planet, now’s your chance. And… Read More ›

A Cloud-Based Asterisk PBX: 0 to $5/Mo.

A Cloud-Based Asterisk PBX: 0 to $5/Mo.

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

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In our last post, we catalogued the various ways to deploy an Asterisk® PBX using existing Windows, Mac, or Linux desktop hardware. But that solution isn’t ideal for everyone especially if you’re looking for a cloud-based platform that provides redundancy and backups. So today we’ll introduce some cloud platform Asterisk solutions, at least one of which can be deployed in under five minutes. Let’s begin with our personal favorite, CrownCloud. For $25 a year, you get a 5-minute install from… Read More ›

Deploying a Free Turnkey Phone System

Deploying a Free Turnkey Phone System

Sunday, December 31, 2023

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To say the New Year is ushering in a scaled back constituency for self-managed telephony systems would be an understatement. Much of this migration from Asterisk® can be traced directly to the proliferation of cell phones coupled with the expansion of Zoom and Microsoft Teams deployments thanks to the COVID nightmare. Despite Sangoma’s best efforts to commercialize Asterisk and FreePBX®, we think there’s still a place for free systems especially turnkey Asterisk PBX deployments that can coexist on Windows, Mac,… Read More ›

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