Keeping your 3CX Free Edition Free

[Natassia Allery]

The how’s and why’s of upgrading to V20.​

Over the last few months we’ve communicated with all customers on V18 FREE urging them to upgrade to V20. If you did not upgrade then your 3CX system as of the 1st of August 2024 no longer supports 10 users but 4 users. In addition to this, your system no longer receives important ...

Continue reading the Original Blog Post.

 

[SteveITS]

> If you did not upgrade then your 3CX system as of the 1st of August 2024 no longer supports 10 users but 4 users.

https://www.3cx.com/blog/releases/v20-upgrade-extension/ advised the SC limit would reduce to 2...is there a user count limitation also?

 

[LGSkier]

Continue reading the Original Blog Post.

I have been running the V18 on a Raspberry Pi for years (my house). The downloaded upgrade needs a static IP, windows server etc. Too much for a home. I created another instance on the portal for the Free hosted version. This instance appears to still support up to 10 desktop phones. Not the 3 indicated on the 3cx website for new installs. (I have several). Am I reading this right?

 

[SteveITS]

I believe hosted Free accounts start as an SMB trial.

The Pi version hasn’t been upgraded in a couple years as I recall. Is your license still active? The Linux install needs neither a static IP nor Windows…

 

[N_G]

There is no limitation on desk phones... we still need to update the website