[Freeswitch-users] FreeSwitch/voip on EC2 or other cloud/virtual services

[Giovanni Maruzzelli]

No way you can run a production voice server on a small instance.
You need at least, at lest, a medium instance.
That's because of how irq are handled.
Reason to be in the cloud is automatica geo load bancing, automatic
start of instances on traffic spikes.
That begins to be cost effective when you run at least some virtual machines.
In your case, go for dedicated hardware ;)
-giovanni

On 7/5/11, Steven Ayre <steveayre at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Not having to worry about 'what if my server dies' is quite nice.
>>
>
> You still have to worry about that though. What if process X crashes? What
> if the data centre fails. What if the data centre has an outage and loses
> all your data (
> http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/10/02/amazon-ec2-outage-wipes-out-data/
> )
>
> It just encourages people to be complacent because it becomes someone elses
> problem and because since they're paying for it to be managed for them
> they're assuming nothing can go wrong.
>
> -Steve
>
>
>
> On 5 July 2011 17:17, Chris Hemmings <chris at cheeky.org> wrote:
>
>> I must admit I'm a bit of a Cloud/VM fan.  The thought of not having to
>> think about the actual hardware you are running on is quite liberating.
>>
>> Not having to worry about 'what if my server dies' is quite nice.
>>
>> Creating a quick instance based on the one I'm currently running to test
>> something and not be tied into a X month contract.
>>
>> Adding/Removing capacity to my VM as and when I want to.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On 5 July 2011 17:03, Ken Rice <krice at freeswitch.org> wrote:
>>
>>>  Its not specifically that easy, however keep in mind, that a $100
>>> Dedicated server, on reasonable bandwidth will probably handle more
>>> traffic
>>> then you can imagine...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 7/5/11 10:52 AM, "Sanjay Arora" <sanjay.k.arora at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Ken Rice <krice at freeswitch.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> For $175 you can easily rent a full Dedicated Server w/ money left
>>> Over...
>>>
>>> Heck for $200 I’ll rent you 2 dedicated servers
>>>
>>> Thanks, I'll keep that in mind ;-)
>>>
>>> But is scaling to a higher server as easy as it would be in Amazon...just
>>> boot up in a higher instance....or am I deluding myself?
>>>
>>> Sanjay.
>>>
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