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From signup to your first campaign on VICIfast
The exact path from creating an account to launching your first VICIdial campaign — sign up, provision, add leads, connect your carrier, and dial.
How much does VICIdial cost?
VICIdial software is free, but running it costs money. The total bill comes from three components: server hosting, carrier minutes, and labor — or a flat managed fee that replaces all three.
Is VICIdial really free?
VICIdial is genuinely free, open-source software. But free software is not the same as free to run. Server costs, carrier minutes, and maintenance labor are real expenses that add up quickly.
What it costs to host VICIdial
Hosting VICIdial means renting a server sized to your agent count and call volume. This post covers what size box you need and what that typically costs, from a small team to a hundred-seat operation.
The real cost per agent of running VICIdial
Per-agent cost is total monthly spend divided by number of active agents. The more agents share one box, the lower that number falls. Here is how to calculate it and what drives it down.
The VICIfast call-forwarding portal explained
The VICIfast forwarding portal is a branded self-serve interface that lets your end-users manage call routing on their own subdomain without touching the dialer admin panel.
Watching your dialer's uptime on the status page
VICIfast provides a public status page powered by BetterStack plus a real-time health model that tracks whether your dialer is HEALTHY, DEGRADED, or UNREACHABLE — separately from your billing status.
Managing billing in the VICIfast portal
VICIfast gives you a self-serve billing portal to update your payment method, download invoices, and change plans without contacting support. Here is what you can do and how it works.
You own your data: export anytime
Your call recordings, lead data, and reports all live on your own single-tenant VICIfast server. You can export them anytime without asking permission or going through VICIfast.
VICIfast for agencies running multiple clients
Agencies running VICIdial for multiple clients can spin up a separate single-tenant dialer per client on VICIfast, each with its own branded subdomain, billed month-to-month with no shared infrastructure.
No long contracts: month-to-month VICIdial hosting
VICIfast runs month-to-month by default — no annual commitment required. Cancel at the end of any billing period. Annual billing is available for operators who want to save roughly two months of fees.
Factory-resetting your dialer safely
A VICIfast factory reset wipes your managed server back to a clean VICIdial installation, with a safety snapshot taken first so you can recover if you change your mind.
How VICIfast support works
VICIfast manages infrastructure — provisioning, OS, VICIdial install, TLS, backups, and uptime. Campaigns, leads, carrier, and compliance stay with you. Here is how to know who owns what when something goes wrong.
The VICIfast plans explained
VICIfast offers tiered managed plans by agent count — Starter, Growth, and Scale — plus a self-hosted BYOI option. All plans are month-to-month with no long contracts, and annual billing saves roughly two months.
How VICIfast hardens your VICIdial box
Every VICIfast server ships with a layered security baseline — firewall, brute-force protection, SSH certificate auth, SIP-TLS, and locked-down VICIdial defaults. Not a stock from-source install.
What VICIdial really costs: pricing and ROI
VICIdial software is free and open-source. Running it is what costs money. Here is an honest breakdown of server, carrier, and labor costs, plus how to think about ROI per agent.
Building a branded agent soundboard
The VICIfast soundboard builder lets you create clickable audio clip boards that agents play into live calls, branded per customer and organized by campaign.
The VICIfast self-hosted (BYOI) plan
The VICIfast BYOI plan installs and manages VICIdial on a server you already own — your own Hetzner box, AWS instance, or on-prem hardware. You keep your compute bill; VICIfast handles the VICIdial install and management.
Restoring your dialer from a snapshot
VICIfast managed plans take automatic [[server-snapshot]]s of your dialer. This post explains how one-click restore works, what it does to your box, and how long the process takes.
Comparing the top predictive dialers
How the main predictive dialers differ on pacing control, cost model, and data ownership, with VICIdial measured against the cloud suites.
Taking VICIdial calls on your phone over SIP
A plain walkthrough of how a phone registers over SIP, takes a VICIdial call, and passes audio to and from your carrier.
How VICIfast provisions a dialer in under 40 seconds
A look at what happens between your payment and a working VICIdial login, and why the whole sequence finishes in under 40 seconds.
VICIdial: the honest pros and cons
VICIdial's real strengths and real weaknesses: free and capable, but it asks for Linux skill and server upkeep in return.
Whitelabeling the VICIdial agent screen
How VICIfast reskins the VICIdial agent screen with your logo, colors, and button styling without changing the underlying app.