Your 3CX server hardware requirements
What are the hardware requirements for 3CX? It might be astonishing but for a long time 3CX (the company) did not release specific requirements. The recommendation was "a currently sold Windows desktop will do." This might seem to be a somewhat "hazy" recommendation, but I've found that this rule of thumb actually can work quite well for a 10 to 15 extension system.
The first time I installed 3CX, I installed it on a fanless 1GHz VIA appliance PC with 512MB of RAM and a 100GB hard disk drive. I thought that, because it was a phone system, it wouldn't take many resources. Well I was wrong. When calls would come in, there was a long delay before the digital receptionist would pick up in other places when prompts played to the caller. I fiddled for quite a while before I moved the phone system to a modern desktop computer and then all the problems went away. With Asterisk, people often say you can turn an "old unused pc" into a phone system. 3CX is a Windows...