Nerd Deals:

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 ›

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 ›

The 5-Minute PBX in the Cloud Platform for $2 a Month

The 5-Minute PBX in the Cloud Platform for $2 a Month

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

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If $2.10 a month for a state-of-the-art VoIP PBX isn’t too rich for your blood, then today’s your lucky day. What that buys you is a turnkey, cloud-based PBX platform that is fully installed and configured IN LESS THAN 5 MINUTES! Did we mention the feature set? The Incredible PBX 2027-U image at CrownCloud has an unequaled feature set: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Asterisk® 20, and FreePBX® 16 with preconfigured extensions and trunks for dozens of VoIP providers plus voicemail with… Read More ›

The Beauty of Incredible PBX: ClearlyIP Module Management

The Beauty of Incredible PBX: ClearlyIP Module Management

Monday, April 17, 2023

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When Incredible PBX was released, you may recall that we jettisoned reliance on FreePBX® repositories and adopted Clearly IP’s far superior repository setup for FreePBX module management. Most of you have never noticed… until today. As lady luck would have it, Sangoma recently released a buggy version of the User Control Panel (UCP) module which literally blows up when you next attempt to access UCP. One of the hidden beauties of Incredible PBX is that we now have version control… 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 ›

Deploying Incredible PBX 2027 with Apple M1 and M2 Silicon

Deploying Incredible PBX 2027 with Apple M1 and M2 Silicon

Monday, March 27, 2023

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In the old days, virtual machine choices were limited to VMware, Proxmox, and VirtualBox with the first two requiring a dedicated hardware platform before you ever got started. So it looked like VirtualBox solved the problem of being able to use existing hardware for other functions as well as being able to host virtual machines. And all was well in the Intel world until Apple created its M1 chip integrating the CPU, GPU, Neural Engine, I/O, and more into a… Read More ›

$1 a Month Buys a Cloud Powerhouse for Incredible PBX 2027

$1 a Month Buys a Cloud Powerhouse for Incredible PBX 2027

Monday, March 20, 2023

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We lied. Sorry. This cloud-based solution for Incredible PBX 2027 will set you back $12.98 a year which works out to just under $1.10 a month. If you’ve never used a cloud platform, now’s your chance at a truly unbelievable price. You can barely cover the electric bill for on-premise hardware at this price, and that’s before you buy the hardware. We cover a number of cloud-based solutions over the course of a year, but you’ll be hard-pressed to find… Read More ›

Deploying Incredible PBX 2027 with Microsoft Windows 11

Deploying Incredible PBX 2027 with Microsoft Windows 11

Friday, March 3, 2023

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Miracles happen every so often, but we never expected our Linux-based Incredible PBX platform to be running natively on the Microsoft Windows 11 desktop. Some have asked why you’d even want to do this when VirtualBox is available for Windows, and Incredible PBX VirtualBox images are available for Debian 10 and Rocky 8. The short answer is we got kernel crashes on our cheapo Windows 11 hardware. The longer answer is the VirtualBox days are numbered as it won’t run… Read More ›

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