[Freeswitch-users] FS in Amazon EC2 for production?

[Anthony Minessale]

Hey Damin!

Glad to see you are still out there in the shadows.
You coming back to ClueCon this year?


On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Gregory Boehnlein <damin at nacs.net> wrote:

>  I can say, from having met with and talked to the CEO and founder of
> Applogic that these guys are really revolutionary in their approach to cloud
> computing. I spoke on a panel w/ the founder at an ISPcon several years ago,
> and their approach is that of a utility company, treating computing
> resources like that of a  power company. Cool stuff!
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> *From:* freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:
> freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org] *On Behalf Of *Chris
> Danielson
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 26, 2009 11:39 AM
> *To:* freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Freeswitch-users] FS in Amazon EC2 for production?
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> There is a cloud computing company named 3Tera (AppLogic) that does have an
> international presence and will keep your FreeSWITCH instance running on a
> dedicated server using Xen and HA.  I spoke with one of their senior
> engineers about 1 month ago in regards to actually setting up an LCR
> scenario using their servers located in Europe and the United States.  These
> guys are a little different in the cloud computing world and I believe
> closer fit the needs of a telephony application.  As-is, there are companies
> using 3tera for their Asterisk installs.  So if you want cloud computing
> with dedicated hardware resources and a set geographic location, then these
> guys do it.  Kind of the best of both worlds.  Just a quick 2 cents...
>
> Regards,
> Chris
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> Brian West wrote:
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> On May 26, 2009, at 10:11 AM, Kristian Kielhofner wrote:
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>  Hey Brian,
>
>  FreeSWITCH in EC2 is a bit of a mystery to me...
>
>  Call me old fashioned but in my mind VoIP and geography are linked
> in %99 of scenarios.  Having VoIP services in a pure "cloud"
> environment just doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
>
>  Consider a "hosted" environment with clients registered to a
> FreeSWITCH server.  One day your instance is physically running on
> hardware in Seattle.  The next day it could (potentially) be running
> in Chicago.  That's obviously a very different routing path for your
> clients.  Even /if/ Amazon (or whomever) employs every routing/network
> trick in the book you still won't be able to get over that change in
> geography.
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> For some people this isn't a huge difference... now if it were to swap
> continents then yes it would be a problem.  But I haven't seen Amazon do
> this but I haven't left the instances up long enough to see.
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>  It's certainly possible a change like this may very well never
> happen in practice.  I wouldn't know; I've never used EC2 and I don't
> even know that much about it.  I'm just curious how well strictly,
> practically speaking this will work in the long term.
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> There are other companies that do this stuff but personally me... I want my
> stuff running on real hardware.
>
>
>
> Brian West
>
> brian at freeswitch.org
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