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Sorry to say this, but then you haven't been paying attention. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/category/downtime/ There is no shortage of stories related to outages at major hosting and carrier hotel facilities. Downtime sucks, but you can only design so much redundancy into your...

Not workable for my case. I use the follow-me functionality of Asterisk, and greatly prefer to see the CID passed through to calls delivered to my cell phone. Quality is hard to judge when it comes to VoIP. The metric is entirely subjective based on the perception of the caller, the...

I closed out my VoicePulse account and got a check with my remaining balance back months ago. I'm down to VOIPo Express, Vitelity, and voip.ms (Canadian) for DIDs. For outbound termination I'm using Vitelity, CallWithUs, and FlowRoute. Overall Vitelity gets the bulk of my business. I've...

Personally I'd be more worried about Level(3), who has had 1 (or maybe 2 now?) profitable quarters in the last 7 years. http://denver.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2009/02/09/daily39.html Last year Vitelity was profitable -- has anyone seen a recent financial report to verify if that is still...

Reseller fees are less than retail costs -- that's how it works. Log into Vitelity and list available DIDs for a US rate center, then log into voip.ms and do the same. The lists are identical, because voip.ms is simply using Vitelity's reseller API to pull the available number lists. There...

Heh.. So moving the DIDs from your Vitelity account to voip.ms' Vitelity account and proxying the audio through one of their servers made your service more reliable? Weird.

If you open a ticket and give them $10 they'll publish your name in the LiDB so that your name will pop up when other phone companies do a CNAM lookup.

Webmin does some things right, and some things wrong. The implementation they have here for setting system time is somewhat of an industry worst practice for setting the time on a *nix-based machine.

Exactly. The NTP daemon syncs to an external clock by slightly adjusting the speed of the internal clock to speed up or slow down to match an external source, unless it is so far off that it has to step the clock. In most cases the ntpd daemon will only step the time once during startup and...

They rent dedicated servers in various DCs across NA. I colo gear in the same DC as their east coast server (Voxel), and have friends who have gear colo'd where their west coast server is (Pacific Rack / OC3 Networks). These are stand alone servers with no telecom connectivity. Don't read...

Late to the thread, but why would they charge you for tollfree term? They pass off the RTP streams directly to the CLEC gateways so it only costs them the occasional SIP packet to keep the connection going, and their carriers they dish the calls off to (InterMetro Communications and O1...

Pretty much any of the non-residential focused SIP Trunking providers will do this. Adding to the list above Flowroute Callwithus VTWhite Metrostat grnVoIP bandwidth.com Junction Networks .. and dozens more.

Just order a new number? Once your account is setup for the $3.99 rate it applies to all new "Tier A" DID orders and port-ins.

CLI = Calling Line Identification. It's a valid term.

I'm not sure it's worth it at $25/channel. "Unlimited" channel providers like grnVoIP or FlowRoute only charge about 1c/min for termination, so your usage on 4,000 minutes would be $40.

Broadvoice - Predominantly 'unlimited' service Viatalk - Predominantly 'unlimited' service Vitelity - When was the last time they changed rates? They've had 1.44c/min US termination since I've been with them. GizmoProject - another example of bad communication. They pushed backdoor dialing...

Really? So you wouldn't care at all if one of your providers cranked their US term to say, $0.25/minute, and you didn't notice until after you checked the CDR weeks later?

Unfortunately I couldn't tell you -- my Asterisk install has public IP addressing with no NAT involved.

There are lots of options out there. For me personally, my current US48 dialplan looks like this: grnVoIP - $0.0100/min flat rate, 6 sec billing FlowRoute - $0.0107 (after USF) flat rate, 6 sec billing Voip.ms - $0.0125 flat rate premium route, 6 sec billing Vitelity - $0.0144 flat rate, 30...

Sure, but just because you use VoicePulse for origination (your DID) doesn't mean that you have to use them for termination. The ability to mix inbound and outbound services is one of the best features of running your own PBX.