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

[Ken Rice]

Who said anything about a X month contract? Not to mention what happens when
instance X goes batty and takes out Instance Y or at the minimal impacts CPU
and I/O performance and leaves you with crappy sounding calls...

Sure ³cloud² resource have some things that could be nice, like on demand
adding a webserver or the like, but that¹s all store/forward services, not
real time services... I¹m not willing to impact the call quality of a
customer generating $1000s in monthly billables to save $50 by using a $50
EC2 instance when I can get a dedicated server for $100 to $150 and be
assured that someone elses crazy process isnt going to affect mine...

Sure this doesn¹t address issues such as bandwidth but you have that to deal
with regardless of EC2 or Dedicated Server...

Maybe I¹ve just spent to much time dealing in the carrier arena where things
like capacity and quality matter...

K


On 7/5/11 11:17 AM, "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
>> <http://sanjay.k.arora@gmail.com> > wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Ken Rice <krice at freeswitch.org
>>> <http://krice@freeswitch.org> > wrote:
>>>> For $175 you can easily rent a full Dedicated Server w/ money left Over...
>>>> 
>>>> Heck for $200 I¹ll 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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