If I am a customer or prospect and I call you, what will it sound like? Is your self-hosted solution the best use of your time? What if your VPS provider gets a DDOS attack and your VPS and phone service is unreachable?
An executive's time is worth millions. Don't piss it away saving $25/month per employee.
Oh. And Google Voice. A steaming pile of telephone call spam and text messages is what it turned out for me. Avoid.
Serious people use serious tools.
I've been using GV since it was Grand Central before Google bought them out.
Although I wouldn't use it for a multi-user business, it's been pretty nice for me, since you have filtering options, can set custom outgoing messages per caller, and can keep the number while switching your mobile carries (T-Mobile -> Boost -> Simple Mobile -> Verizon) all while keeping my GV number as my main contact number.
I use an Obihai box at home connected to a regular pots cordless phone, and that has been pretty nice.
Weird thing, it will drop a call if you're on longer than 2 (or is it 3) hours, and if you're calling someone else on an IP/wireless phone, the lag/conflict can get interesting. Works better on obihai than cell phone, for example.
>if you're calling someone else on an IP/wireless phone, the lag/conflict can get interesting
Good to know, didn't realize this was an issue.
If you ever notice when you and someone else start talking, and step on eachother... it's mostly because of the additional latency cell and IP phones tend to add on top of what POTS phones would have.
Agreed. This was an effort to determine if Google Voice fell in this category. If call quality is decent and doesn't drop more than a regular landline, it makes it worth it.
>Is your self-hosted solution the best use of your time? This would be no more self-hosted than a VOIP solution of the rack. I'm not hosting infrastructure, merely adding a physical phone to a service provided by Google.
That's a relatively inexpensive option, that would allow you to grow.