Nice, I'm a big fan of 2600hz!
I'm currently on Twilio's first tier volume discount (I assume there's further volume discounts that aren't on the website), paying .8 cents/min IIRC.
I looked into buying voice minutes and DIDs and running my own freeswitch boxes. Any provider that had listed prices charged upwards of .4 cents/min or had unlimited minutes per DID with a $4 or something fee per channel. A lot of them also limited the number of channels on a DID.
Another reason I have low margins though is because my free plan and free trials also cost me real money. There is no way I can get around that.
While we're at it: Another reason I looked into self-hosting was because I'd like to host conference calls with up to 5000 participants (think earnings calls, public forums, classes etc), most of which are mute. THAT is a high margin business, with companies charging up to 20 cents/minute/caller for those kinds of calls. I read this may be possible with freeswitch on beefy hardware. What do you think? Do you know any way I could get around hosting my own freeswitch servers, load balancer, redundant backups etc?
I'm currently on Twilio's first tier volume discount (I assume there's further volume discounts that aren't on the website), paying .8 cents/min IIRC.
I looked into buying voice minutes and DIDs and running my own freeswitch boxes. Any provider that had listed prices charged upwards of .4 cents/min or had unlimited minutes per DID with a $4 or something fee per channel. A lot of them also limited the number of channels on a DID.
Another reason I have low margins though is because my free plan and free trials also cost me real money. There is no way I can get around that.
While we're at it: Another reason I looked into self-hosting was because I'd like to host conference calls with up to 5000 participants (think earnings calls, public forums, classes etc), most of which are mute. THAT is a high margin business, with companies charging up to 20 cents/minute/caller for those kinds of calls. I read this may be possible with freeswitch on beefy hardware. What do you think? Do you know any way I could get around hosting my own freeswitch servers, load balancer, redundant backups etc?