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Some Fresh CallerID Magic for Incredible PBX 13-13

Some Fresh CallerID Magic for Incredible PBX 13-13

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

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It’s been more than 10 years since we first introduced CallerID Trifecta for Asterisk® and the FreePBX® platform. A few months later it morphed into CallerID Superfecta and, as they say, the rest is history. Today CallerID Superfecta is used by over a million people around the globe to obtain CallerID Name (CNAM) information from over 70 different lookup sources. WOW! Just call me the Proud Papa. What a journey it has been, and our special thanks to the dozens… Read More ›

Dare to Compare: The Best (free) VoIP Offerings for 2018

Dare to Compare: The Best (free) VoIP Offerings for 2018

Sunday, May 27, 2018

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Last week we showed you how to get 10 months of free hosting for your Incredible PBX® in the Cloud. And today we present our semi-annual survey of the latest and greatest VoIP offerings for 2018. The beauty of the cloud platform is you can try all of them for less than a penny an hour and decide for yourself which free offering best meets your needs. This year we’ve ushered in new Asterisk® 13 LTS releases of Incredible PBX®… Read More ›

Cloud 9: Free Incredible PBX in the Cloud Hosting until 2019

Cloud 9: Free Incredible PBX in the Cloud Hosting until 2019

Friday, May 25, 2018

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These deals don’t come along every day so we’re interrupting our regular programming to alert you to a terrific, limited time cloud hosting offer for first-time users of Vultr. If you hurry, you can take advantage of a $25 credit on Vultr which translates into 10 free months of cloud hosting service. We can’t say enough about Vultr. They’ve been one of our key resources for development and testing of new releases of Incredible PBX for many years. Historically, they’ve… Read More ›

Creating an OBi200 Google Voice Trunk to Use with Asterisk

Creating an OBi200 Google Voice Trunk to Use with Asterisk

Monday, May 14, 2018

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Since Asterisk® will no longer be able to "talk" to Google Voice after June 17, we promised to hold our nose and document how to salvage your Google Voice trunks. Our exercise for today is to show you how to deploy an OBi 200-series device which can speak the new Google Voice language and use it as a traditional SIP bridge between Google Voice’s proprietary SIP platform and your Asterisk server. We will skip the editorializing on why Google is… Read More ›

Incredible PBX in the Cloud: A $10/Year VoIP Cloud Platform

Incredible PBX in the Cloud: A $10/Year VoIP Cloud Platform

Monday, April 16, 2018

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We’ve been inching toward a new low-cost plateau for VoIP cloud providers, and today we have a new milestone that finally makes running VoIP servers out of your home or office look like the horse-and-buggy days. $10 a year now buys you a cloud platform that is less expensive than the cost of electricity to run a server on premise. You get 2GB of RAM, 20GB of SSD storage, two virtual core processors, and 2TB of monthly bandwidth. If you… Read More ›

Introducing Digium’s Awesome SIP Phones for Asterisk

Introducing Digium’s Awesome SIP Phones for Asterisk

Friday, April 13, 2018

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If you’ve been waiting for a low-cost, feature-rich SIP phone that meshes perfectly with your Asterisk® PBX, your prayers have been answered. Digium has just released not one, but four, new SIP phones with prices starting at $59. No, that’s not a typo. Digium gave us a couple of early models to play with, and today we’ll walk you through the incredibly simple setup. We would begin by noting that, despite the pricing, these phones are configured with nothing resembling… Read More ›

One Minute Wonder: Introducing VitalPBX for VirtualBox

One Minute Wonder: Introducing VitalPBX for VirtualBox

Monday, April 9, 2018

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Last week we took VitalPBX to the Cloud with our rock-solid firewall. And this week we’ll show you how to get VitalPBX up and running on any desktop computer in less than a minute using VirtualBox®. If you’ve followed Nerd Vittles over the years, you already know that VirtualBox from Oracle® is one of our favorite platforms. Almost any desktop computer can serve as a VirtualBox hosting platform. And once VirtualBox is installed, adding VitalPBX is a snap. Download the… Read More ›

VitalPBX in the Cloud: Providers, Backups, & Airtight Security

VitalPBX in the Cloud: Providers, Backups, & Airtight Security

Monday, April 2, 2018

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Last month we introduced VitalPBX, a terrific new (free) VoIP platform that’s about as intuitive as software can get. We followed up with a dozen Incredible PBX applications that really showed off the flexibility of this new Asterisk® platform. And today we’re pleased to introduce two new cloud solutions that offer our whitelist firewall design for security plus automatic backups. Both Digital Ocean and Vultr offer terrific performance coupled with a $5/month price point that is easy on your wallet.… Read More ›

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