From: Marc L. <ma...@ma...> - 2011-11-17 13:09:50
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> > Can you elaborate on your PBX needs? > > Not sure of specific needs in that realm yet. Thinking I should aim for > some of that as well and be prepared in the future :) > Ok, blue.box is a young project and Tiki Suite will evolve with it. > > > > > We are > > > currently using cloud hosting "smart servers" from Liquid Web > > > and very pleased at how that works and their service. Operating systems > > > from them at this time include Debian, CentOS, and Ubuntu. > > > http://www.liquidweb.com/SmartServers/ > > > > > > > Sometimes, you can ask them to use a custom install CD... > > Yeah... I have done that before and in my younger server admin years, I > would remotely switch new hosted servers to a custom hardened gentoo > installation and found that that process mostly voided support from the > server provider. All they would offer would be to reset the server to a > fresh install of a supported OS. yikes. Or one provider offered > networked-KVM access to the box which was pretty cool, pay extra tho. > I'm feeling a bit short circuiting at the moment thinking of finding > another server provder, ClearOS, etc -- I'd like the server stuff to > just be taken care of so I can focus more on Tikisuite/software > development. Hopefully some more teammates for my project will include > a server/OS focused person soon, till then it's for me to do. > This is the server config I'd like to try (this assumes there is no physical office): Server 1: ClearOS (LDAP) + Tiki + ejabberd + Clipperz + Piwik Server 2: BigBlueButton (FreeSWITCH) + blue.box (So PBX reuses instance of FreeSWITCH that is part of BigBlueButton) Server 3: Kaltura (some will skip this or used hosted services if needs are modest) > > Beyond Tiki auth, why do you need LDAP?> > Well, LDAP feels like the best option I've found so far for a versatile, > scaleable, distributable central authenticator that can do what I > envision for Tiki Auth. And then as we incorporate more > services/components of the TikiSuite, LDAP already plays well with so > many other things like Jabber, IMAP, etc. Feels pretty clear that it's > the thing to use in the future for my current project, so it would be > the thing to be using now. I'm open to something better if there is > something. > Ok, let's get in touch with ClearOS devs about this. Related reading: www.clearfoundation.com/docs/developer/architecture/central_management/start Best regards, M :-) |