FreeSBC sits at the edge of your phone system so your FreeSWITCH or Asterisk never has to face the public internet. It is the only element with a public address: phones register through it over SIP on UDP, TCP, or TLS, browsers call through WebSocket with WebRTC terminated at the edge (ICE-Lite, DTLS-SRTP, and RTCP-mux, relayed onward as plain RTP), and carriers reach your switch through it as an outbound proxy, with the switch's private addresses hidden from every SDP body, Contact, and Request-URI it constructs. The switch stays on a private LAN as the registrar and call brain, holding credentials and carrier accounts, while FreeSBC anchors all media on its own ports with hardened first-packet latching and a silence watchdog, and never transcodes. Against the background radiation of SIP scanning, it applies per-IP rate limits with separate limits for carrier sources, scanner fingerprinting with in-memory bans, and admission control for public INVITEs and REGISTER enumeration, and every denial is a silent drop. A multi-switch pool hashes users across switches, and one fixed private socket keeps the trusted side simple. The embedded WebUI, REST API, and Prometheus metrics sit behind a bcrypt-checked admin login, showing live calls and media ports. One static binary, one YAML file, no database, no Redis, and no separate media process to babysit. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.

One Janus installation can host a video meeting in one session, stream a camera feed in another, and bridge a browser call into a telephone network in a third, because Janus is a general-purpose WebRTC server whose work is done by interchangeable plugins. The VideoRoom plugin publishes each participant's streams to everyone else in the room with simulcast and viewport selection, so a class or team call adapts quality per viewer instead of forcing one bitrate on all. Streaming mounts live or prerecorded sources, including RTSP cameras and RTP feeds, and hands them to any number of WebRTC viewers, while AudioBridge mixes voices into conference rooms with recording and signed-token access. SIP and NoSIP plugins register with existing VoIP infrastructure and place or receive calls, translating between WebRTC media and telephone audio so a web page can ring a desk phone. Record&Play captures publisher streams to files you can replay through the same server, TextRoom adds data-channel chat rooms, and Lua or JavaScript plugins let you script custom media logic without recompiling the core. Applications talk to Janus over HTTP or WebSocket APIs, with RabbitMQ, MQTT, and NATS transports for bus-driven deployments, and event handlers report session activity to your monitoring stack. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

Evolution API gives your applications a production-ready REST interface to WhatsApp, supporting both free Baileys-based Web connections and Meta's official Business Cloud API from the same server. With 9,200+ stars and 7,100+ forks, it is the most widely deployed WhatsApp integration layer available. Each installation handles unlimited isolated instances (one per phone number) with independent auth, webhooks, and database separation via Prisma ORM against PostgreSQL or MySQL, cached through Redis. Message types include text, images, audio, video, documents, contacts, locations, interactive buttons, list messages, carousel cards, and PIX payment links through unified endpoints. Native integrations connect to Typebot for chatbot flows, Chatwoot for multi-agent support, Dify and OpenAI for AI conversations, N8N and Flowise for workflow automation, and RabbitMQ, Kafka, or SQS for enterprise event streaming. Socket.io delivers real-time message and connection events. Amazon S3 or MinIO handles media offloading. The Evolution Manager v2 dashboard provides visual instance creation, QR code scanning, connection monitoring, and integration configuration without touching the API directly. Docker Compose bundles the server, PostgreSQL, and Redis with environment-variable-driven setup. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.

MikoPBX gives a small business a complete phone system on a server it controls, with extensions, call queues, IVR menus, and call recording instead of per-seat hosted PBX fees. Follow a call through it: incoming rules per provider match exact numbers or patterns, fall through by priority when nobody answers, and end at a default route. Each employee gets an extension with SIP credentials, forwarding for no-answer, busy, and unavailable states, and an optional recording switch. Queues offer seven distribution strategies, including Ring All, Least Recent, Fewest Calls, and Memory Hunt, and can announce each caller's position and estimated wait. IVR menus play a recorded greeting, route keypad choices to departments or extensions, and fall back to a default number after a set number of retries. Call history filters by caller, destination, or DID, flags missed calls in red, and plays or downloads recordings as WebM, MP3, WAV, or OGG. Voicemail, call transfer, call pickup, and a holiday and night-time switcher serve daily needs, while free and paid marketplace modules, among them a softphone, auto dialer, and LDAP/AD sync, handle the rest. A firewall, Fail2Ban, passkey sign-in, and CrowdSec integration protect the system, and a REST API with more than 250 endpoints lets other tools manage it. The interface speaks 26 languages. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

TextBee turns an Android phone with a SIM card into an SMS gateway your applications can call, so one-time codes, alerts, reminders, and two-way conversations go out as ordinary texts from a real number. Pair a phone by scanning a QR code in the dashboard, then send messages from the REST API, the dashboard, or the JavaScript SDK. Bulk campaigns load from a CSV file and are paced to stay within carrier limits, and any message can be scheduled up to 72 hours ahead. With several phones or SIM cards attached, each message can name the device and SIM it should use. Every message moves through pending, dispatched, sent, delivered, or failed, and the history view lists all devices together. Incoming texts appear in the dashboard and the API, and webhooks push received messages and delivery reports to your server with an HMAC-SHA256 signature you can verify. An official MCP server lets AI assistants send texts and read replies. API keys, devices, usage, and webhook subscriptions are all managed from one web interface. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

With over 20,000 GitHub stars and adoption by companies building everything from telehealth platforms to AI voice agents, LiveKit is the most widely deployed open-source real-time communication server available. The Go-based Selective Forwarding Unit handles hundreds of concurrent participants per node with adaptive bitrate streaming, simulcast layers, SVC codec support for VP9 and AV1, and end-to-end encryption. Client SDKs span JavaScript, Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, React Native, Rust, Python, Unity, and ESP32 embedded devices, while server-side APIs cover Node.js, Go, Ruby, Java, Python, Rust, PHP, and .NET. The Agents framework enables building AI-powered voice and video applications — real-time speech-to-text, LLM-driven conversations, and computer vision pipelines — running as server-side participants in any room. Egress records sessions to S3-compatible storage or streams to RTMP endpoints, while Ingress pulls external feeds from OBS via RTMP, WHIP, or SRT into LiveKit rooms. The SIP bridge connects traditional telephony to WebRTC rooms for hybrid conferencing. JWT-based authentication, webhook notifications, room-level moderation APIs, and selective subscription give operators granular control. Deploy as a single binary for development, Docker Compose for production single-node, or Kubernetes with the official Helm chart for distributed multi-region clusters using Redis for state coordination. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.