The ResVoip Project

I’ve been using PRTG to monitor bandwidth for my voice services for some time now. I’ve had a few questions on this.

Is Asterisk virtualization practical? For me, the short answer is YES, but especially in a lab. In the last 6 months, I’ve gone from having half a dozen of Asterisk installations running on old desktop “servers”, or ODS for short, down to one installation. I often need to be able to simulate configurations in a [...]

Now that you’re thinking about using a ResVoip Asterisk EC2 machine or Voxilla in a Cloud, you must have some questions. So, what does it all cost? The ResVoip image is not a paid ami, beyond the standard Amazon charges, but that doesn’t mean that there’s no cost. Make sure you understand what you charges [...]

I’m really excited! There seems to be a lot of momentum and interest around Asterisk on EC2 in the last few days! To make things clear, there’s no competition on our part in this space – our only interest is in giving back to the community. We are happy to work with anyone who might [...]

Since the publishing of the ResVoip EC2 Asterisk image, I’ve gotten a lot of feedback from those who have used it, or want to use it for a specific application. That feedback has led to some custom AMIs. I’m interested in hearing what if anything you’ve used our image for. One of the most interesting [...]

As a business owner, you’re responsible to many people. You have a responsibility to your customers to deliver the services for which you are paid to deliver. You have a responsibility to your staff to have a productive work environment. You have a responsibility to your investors to be fiscally responsible, and make a profit. [...]

The ResVoip project started in April 2005. The name is short for the Residential Voice over IP Project; a project with the goal of making residential VoIP easy-er for those who want it. The key idea is that you should need to know how all the tech and system admin works. — I’ve always been [...]

I’m taking requests for features for build 2 for Asterisk for EC2. For starts, I’ll working to include chanskype, allowing for asterisk integration with skype.  Skype requires X11, so you’ll be able to VNC in to the session and interact with the X11 desktop manager. I’ll be including the trixbox yum repositories by default. Send [...]

Using the instructions found on Donald Flood’s blog, I’ve complied a complete asterisk Amazon EC2 image for public use! Donald’s instructions were easy to follow and right on, but for convienice and personal use, I decided that compling an image would make launching multiple systems easier. Using the instructions found on Donald Flood’s blog, I’ve [...]